Explore the wide potential of a resource for Highlands and Islands music (7 May 2017, Edinburgh)

ELIZA ROSS’S RAASAY:

TALKS, WORKSHOPS AND A CEILIDH

SUNDAY 7 MAY 2017 at 50 GEORGE SQUARE, EDINBURGH EH8 9LH

 FOR TICKETS, CLICK HERE

This day-long event in association with TradFest will provide a relaxed and interactive opportunity to explore the wide potential of a resource for Highlands and Islands music, The Elizabeth Ross Manuscript: Original Highland Airs Collected at Raasay in 1812, which has been made available recently in edited form. Copies of the edition will be available on the day. New and seasoned musicians alike, across a range of instruments, are warmly welcome!

The event is sponsored by MUSICA SCOTICA, which has published the edition of the Eliza Ross Music Manuscript, the ROYAL CONSERVATOIRE OF SCOTLAND and the SCHOOL OF SCOTTISH STUDIES ARCHIVES/CELTIC & SCOTTISH STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.  

The day will encourage the use of the edition by singers, instrumentalists, composers and researchers by means of a combination of introductory talks in the morning, giving

its background and context, contents and editorial history (followed by a sandwich lunch) with afternoon workshops led by specialists. A ceilidh presenting the outcomes of the workshops will take place in the early evening. All parts of the day will take place in 50 George Square and lunch is included in the ticket price.

• 09:30         Doors open
• 10:00         Professor Gary West, C&SS: Welcome and Introduction (Project Room)
• 10:30         Professor Hugh Cheape, UHI: ‘Eliza Ross, her family, education and life’
• 11:00         ‘Editing the Eliza Ross MS’: perspectives of the editors
• 11:30         Break for coffee/tea  
• 12:00         Mairi MacInnes, RCS: ‘Gaelic Song in the Eliza Ross MS’
• 12:30         Dr Josh Dickson, RCS: ‘Music for the Bagpipe in the Eliza Ross MS’
• 13:00         Lunch
• 14:00         Workshops (4):
•                   Gaelic Song (led by Mairi MacInnes)
•                   Instrumental Music (led by Josh Dickson and Gary West)
•                   Arrangement (led by James Ross)
•                   Ethnographic Research (led by Hugh Cheape)
• 16:00         Break for coffee/tea
• 16:30         Summing-up session and programme for ceilidh
• 17:00         Break for supper nearby
• 18:30         Ceilidh preparation
• 19:00         Ceilidh  (workshop participants, leaders and invited   guests)
•  20:30         Departure

For tickets see www.tracscotland.org/festivals/tradfest or the Box Office, Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR; 0131-556-9579. For further information, including the opportunity to alert organisers to any dietary requirements for lunch and supper, please contact Margaret Mackay at margaret.a.mackay@ed.ac.uk or Joshua Dickson at j.dickson@rcs.ac.uk.

All rooms at 50 George Square are fully accessible.

Dance Teaching Awards Deadline 19 May 2017

We have been asked to share details of these awards!

"One Dance UK will be hosting the Dance Teaching Awards and are looking for nominations for the nine categories. The deadline to receive nominations by is Friday 19 May 2017 and it would be fantastic to have good representation for Scottish dance teachers. Please see the information / link below for further information.

Sorry for any cross-posting and please share with any relevant contacts."

http://www.onedanceuk.org/programme/children-young-people/dance-teaching-awards

Step Dancing in Scotland (Read a Research Paper)

This intriguing paper appears on the academic networking site, Academia.edu - it's by Mats Melin and was published by the Elphinstone Institute:- 

'Putting the dirt back in” - an investigation of step dancing in Scotland

Author: Mats Melin 

Researchers will probably be aware that there are a variety of social media networking sites where scholars can share details of their publications and research activities, and engage in useful discussion with people at other institutions.  Academia.edu and ResearchGate.net are just two of them.  Publishers like Sage and Emerald also try to encourage a sense of community amongst their scholarly authors.

It's fair to say that some people aren't keen on Academia and ResearchGate because the statistical information could be used for commercial purposes.  Nonetheless, as you see, these websites are useful to supplement what individuals post on their institutional repositories or personal websites, because of the networking angle!

Free Invite! Postgrad Research Fair at Kelvin Hall Glasgow 24 April 2017

 

From: Moving Image - Enquiries [mailto:movingimage@nls.uk]
Subject: Invite to Postgraduate Research Fair

The National Library of Scotland invites all research postgrads to their postgraduate research fair at Kelvin Hall on Monday 24 April, from 11:00 - 15:00. This is an informal, free, drop-in session. Come along and give your research skills a boost:-

• Discuss your research with our curators and specialist staff.
• Find out more about the Library, its collections and facilities.
• Get advice on topics such as intellectual property and reproductions of images and text.
• Take a tour behind the scenes and get practical information on using the Library.
• Network with other research students.

This is a great opportunity to speak to specialists from the Moving Image Archive, Archives and Manuscripts, General Collections, Rare Books, Maps and Music, Intellectual Property and Access who will be there to answer your questions and give advice on what you can find in our collections.

Coffee and tea will be available.  

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CONTACT DETAILS AND VENUE:-

Access and Enquiries Team, National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall
1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AW

Tel: 0845 366 4600
Email: movingimage@nls.uk
Website: www.nls.uk
Twitter: @nlskelvinhall
Facebook: /NationalLibraryofScotland
 

New Sound Recordings for the Whittaker Library

Although we subscribe to music streaming services with Naxos and Alexander Street Press (not to mention the historic recordings at British Library Sounds), we do still get CDs occasionally.  Not everything is available to libraries digitally, yet!

And we've just added a number of very varied recordings.  You can keep an eye on new acquisitions here.  Now, be warned. We did say they were varied ...

Pore (or Drool) over Mediaeval Music Manuscripts Digitised Online - DIAMM

https://www.diamm.ac.uk/

Eton Choirbook (Wikipedia image)

Mediaeval music manuscripts might not be our main focus here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, but it's always good to enrich our experience of more recent music, with an understanding of much earlier repertoire.  DIAMM is a fantastic starting point.  If "digital humanities" don't yet excite you, maybe this might provide the vital spark!


An introduction from the website, run by the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford:-

"DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) is a leading resource for the study of medieval manuscripts. We present images and metadata for thousands of manuscripts on this website. We also provide a home for scholarly resources and editions, undertake digital restoration of damaged manuscripts and documents, publish high-quality facsimiles, and offer our expertise as consultants."

(Karen would very much like that slightly damaged facsimile of the Eton Choirbook, but she'll try to sit on her hands and let someone else snap it up!)