Scottish music and culture resource pages

These pages are provided as a resource for anyone interested in Scottish music - whether playing, performing, listening, dancing to it, or whatever, and the culture which gives and gave rise to this music. If you can't find what you are looking for here, please mail me and I'll see what I can do.

The Scots_Music mailing list is for discussion of anything to do with scottish music and culture. You can subscribe and unsubscribe via the web.

At the moment I have:

• Information on The World Ceilidh Band Competition, held on the Isle of Bute. They are considering expanding to hold regional heats with the winners getting free travels to the finals at the festival itself, and would like to gauge interest in this.
  
• The lyrics to "Niel Gow's Farewell to Whisky.", provided by Bruce Olson.
  
• Hints and tips on ornaments in Scottish music.
  
• Martin Burns' paper on the construction of the scottish traditional image.
  
• A tongue-in-cheek history of celtic song and music.
  
• links to various other related Web pages.
  Key sites (which I can take neither credit nor blame):
  • The homepage of ABC - the standard medium for exchanging tunes on the web.
  • John Chambers' tune searcher. also includes sets for SCD.
  • Viper Piper bagpipe music search site and discussion forums.
  • Ceolas - celtic music.
    
  • Andrew Kuntz's Fiddler's Companion collection of tunes with history.
  • You might also find Alan Ng's on-line course about celtic music interesting.
  • The Piping Centre: "The Great Highland Bagpipe, perhaps the best known of Scotland's musical instruments and an ambassador for Scotland throughout the world, is accorded new prominence by the founding of The Piping Centre. The Centre serves as a national and international centre of excellence for the instrument and its music."
  • The Wighton Collection, based in Dundee City Library. The Database contains over 1000 records describing Dundee's Wighton Collection one of the world's finest repositories of Scottish music. The Wighton also includes a goodly selection of rare English, Irish and Welsh volumes, with RISM entries in abundance, and many unique items. John and Henry Playford's "Dancing Masters" and "Apollo's Banquets" are a particular delight.
  • Take the Floor homepage - BBC Radio Scotland weekly programme of scottish dance music. 6:30-8:00 pm Saturdays. 92-94 FM or 810 medium wave in Scotland. Now also on Sky Digital channel 927 in Europe and North Africa.

  See more links here.

• There is a searchable archive of postings to the Scots-L music list at eGroups.

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I have other pages for Scottish dance in general, Scottish country dance and Highland and scottish step dance and Ceilidh dance.

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This page is maintained by Ian Brockbank
ian@scottishdance.net
Edinburgh, Scotland