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Musica Scotica 2010: 800 years of Scottish Music
Musica Scotica's Sixth Annual Conference

Saturday 24 April 2010, 10am - 5pm

Opera Studio, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB

Registration Form for the 2010 Conference

Programme for the 2010 Conference

A new volume in the Musica Scotica main edition series will be published in 2010:

VI: 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.

The following three volumes were published in 2008:

Fifty Seventeenth-Century Songs

Five Cantatas by Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, Second Edition

Proceedings from the 2005 and 2006 Musica Scotica Conferences

Contents:

  • Erin McPhee: “Performance Practice and Aesthetics in Traditional Scottish Gaelic Singing”
  • Jo Miller: “A Fiddle Manuscript from 18th century Galloway”
  • Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle: “The Perfect Fusion of Words and Music: The Achievement of Robert Burns”
  • M J Grant: “Myth and Reality in the Songs of Robert Burns”
  • Peter Davidson: “Aberdeen Musical Society”
  • Karen McAulay: “William Chappell and Scottish Popular Music”
  • Per Ahlander: “Continental Eirope and Scotland: Marjory Kennedy-Fraser – Music Student, Lecturer and Teacher”
  • William Sweeney: “The Flyting of Fergusson and McDiarmid”
  • Richard E McGregor: “The Persistence of Parody in the Music of Peter Maxwell Davies”
  • Michael Spencer: Dillon’s “L’évolution du vol": an evolution of stylistics or a flight from National identity?

Journal Articles in Preparation (To be published in 2009–2011):

  • Defining the keyboard repertoires of William Kinloch and Duncan Burnett: A study in style and circumstance.
  • The case of ‘Tell me, tell me, Daphne’: Words and music of a lost English ballad restored from Scottish seventeenth-century MS sources.
  • A late seventeenth-century Scottish violinist-composer: The little-known but substantial repertoire of John McLaughlan.
  • 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.