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Musica Scotica 2008: 800 years of Scottish Music
Musica Scotica's Fourth Annual Conference

Saturday 26 April 2008, 10am - 5pm

Concert Hall, Glasgow University, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Further information and call for papers

A new volume in the Musica Scotica main edition series will be published in 2008:

V: Vespers, Matins and Lauds for the Feast of St Kentigern, Patron Saint of Glasgow

A pre-publication discount of 20% is currently available on this volume. To place an order please click here.

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.