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Fonn's Duthchas: Land and Legacy
No full textFonn’s Duthchas: Land and Legacy was produced to accompany the travelling exhibition of the same name for Highland 2007 which included iconic items from the collections of National Museums Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland. A narrative (in Gaelic and English) by Professor James Hunter, Director for the University of the Highlands and Islands Centre for History, covers topics such as land ownership; clans and clearances; the landscape; and the Highlands and Islands today, including current environmental issues, and recent population increases
The Bagpipe: perceptions of a national instrument
No full textThe thesis, The Bagpipe: perceptions of a national instrument, is a work offered to the University of Edinburgh for the degree of PhD by research publications, and includes a portfolio of published items and research papers, amounting in total to approximately 63,600 words, with a critical review and a CD.
Research papers:
1. ‘Making a national collection of a national instrument.’ Lecture to the American Musical Instrument Society and Galpin Society Conference, 3-9 August 2003.
2. ‘The Early History of the Scottish Bagpipe’, in Ellen Hickmann, Arnd Adje Both and Ricardo Eichmann eds., Studien zur Musikarchäologie V (Papers from the 4th Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology, 19-26 September 2004) Rahden/Westf.: VML 2006, 447-461.
3. ‘Musician and Milieu: piping, politics and patronage through three centuries.’ The John Macfadyen Memorial Trust Annual Lecture, 19 March 2004.
4. ‘Traditional origins of the piping dynasties.’ RSAMD Research Seminar 31 May 2007 (publication forthcoming).
5. ‘The Pastoral or New Bagpipe: piping in the Neo-baroque’, in The Galpin Society Journal, 2007-2008 (forthcoming).
6. ‘Taste and Humour: the Union Pipe of Britain and Ireland’, in Seán Reid Society Journal Volume 3 (2007) [electronic format].
7. ‘Donald MacDonald, Bagpipe Maker’, in Proceedings of the Piobaireachd Society Conference Volume XXXIII (2006), 10-18.
These papers are discussed in a critical review whose thesis and structure is explained in the Prospectus. The critical review amounts to approximately 24,200 words and is divided into seven Sections (as listed on the Contents page) which relate specifically to their respective research papers and summarise their findings. There is some imbalance of wording between the Sections, for example there are more words in sections ‘Piping Dynasties’ and ‘the Maestros’, and this reflects a perceived need to strengthen the statements in these areas in order to deliver the arguments of the thesis more effectively
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Early history of the Scottish bagpipe
No full textDer Dudelsack - besonders die Version des Instruments, die von der Great Highland Bagpipe abgeleitet wurde - und seine Musik sind zum Symbol Schottlands geworden. Allerdings sind sehr wenige Indizien hinsichtlich seiner frühen Geschichte in Schottland und überhaupt keine archäologischer Art vorhanden. Dudelsack gewann wahrscheinlich an Popularität als das Land eine Entfaltung des Stadtlebens und des Handels erlebte, welche mit einer fühlbaren Erneuerung der uns erhaltenen materiellen Kultur des Mittelalters einhergingen. Die gleiche Entwicklung ist auch in Europa zu beobachten. Seit dem späten vierzehnten und fünfzehnten Jahrhundert gibt es klare Anzeichen für die Schirmherrschaft an Höfen und Schlössern, den traditionellen Zielen reisender Musikanten. Zum gleichen Zeitpunkt wissen wir von einer lebhaften Gesangs- und Tanztradition. Im Hochland Schottlands wird der Dudelsack im frühen sechszehnten Jahrhundert eingeführt, möglicherweise in einer größeren Form und in Folge einer zunehmend eigenständigen Tradition. Diese wurde mit lang bestehenden, literarischen und musikalischen Bräuchen verbunden, die als Vorrechte des gebildeten Standes und der Dichterschulen galten. Aus europäischer Sicht ist die komplizierte Geschichte des Dudelsacks ein einmaliger Vorgang
Bagpipes : a national collection of national instruments.
No full textBased on a 'national collection of the national instrument' now assembled in National Museums Scotland, this book offers an account of the musicology of the bagpipe in its European context, including the remarkable influence of the Baroque on Scotland's musical traditions. The record is meagre for the evolution of the bagpipe in Scotland and perceptions of the 'national instrument' have depended on a stereotype Great Highland Bagpipe assumed to have a continuous history from a distant past. The evidence, as far as it goes, suggests that Scotland adopted a 'great pipe' from the European bagpipe tradition and made it, through the strength of the Gaelic language and its music, very much its own.
The CD-ROM makes available for the first time the database of the National Museums Scotland collection together with some sound clips
Tartan: the highland habit
No full textThe story of tartan is told from the medieval love of display to the Victorian invention of exclusive clan identity. Along the journey, the history of the Highlands and its society is brought vividly to life. In the third edition of this classic and best-selling book there are: • 16 new pictures • details on women’s Highland habit • revelations following recent dye tests on a kilt allegedly worn by Bonnie Prince Charlie A full-colour section on individual clans enables the reader to find their own tartan and Scottish family history
A Hebridean Plough-type
Get PDFMaterial culture, Ethnology, Folklore, Scottish History, Rural Life, Regional Studies, Local Studies, Hebrides, National Museums Scotland, Museums, Museology, European ethnology, plough, ploughing, South Uist, North Uist, Benbecula, West Kilbride, Clearances, Highland Clearance
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