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Also To be published in 2008:

Proceedings of the Musica Scotica 2005 Conference Held in St Andrews in the Square, Glasgow, on May 1, 2005

Contents:

• M. J. Grant: “Myth and Reality in the Songs of Robert Burns”
• Graham Hair: “Formal and Conversational Dialogue in Thomas Wilson’s Fourth String Quartet”
• Jo Miller: “A Fiddle Manuscript from 18th century Galloway”
• Jane Mallinson: “Hamish MacCunn: beyond The Land of the Mountain and the Flood”
• Karen E. McAulay: “William Chappell and Scottish Popular Music”
• Richard E McGregor: “The Persistence of Parody in the Music of Peter Maxwell Davies”
• Dillon’s “L’évolution du vol: an evolution of stylistics or a flight from National identity?”
• Bill Sweeney: “The Flyting of Fergusson and McDiarmid”

Journal Articles in Preparation (To be published in 2008–2010):

• Defining the keyboard repertoires of William Kinloch and Duncan Burnett: A study in style and circumstance.
• Modality and tonality as tools for dating seventeenth-century Scottish song.
• The case of ‘Tell me, tell me, Daphne’: Words and music of a lost English ballad restored from Scottish seventeenth-century MS sources.
• Words and music for ‘Old long syne’: The True History.
• A late seventeenth-century Scottish violinist-composer: The little-known but substantial repertoire of John McLaughlan.
• Europe's first folksong collectors? The achievement and legacy of the seventeenth-century Scottish anthologists.
• The impulse to arrange: The earliest recorded Scottish folksongs from the seventeenth century and their transcribers.
• Robert Johnson’s ‘Ty the mare, tom boy’: Musical links with the Scottish medleys and the Durham medley.
• Early Scottish psalm-settings in a European context: musical, liturgical and social parallels drawn with France, the Low Countries and England.
• Beyond the early Scottish metrical psalm-settings: Some poetic versifications and their music.