Download or read book The Great Scots Musicography written by Martin Charles Strong and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Scots written by Betty Kirkpatrick and published by Crombie Jardine Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In landmass and population, Scotland is a fairly small country but in terms of making an impact on the world throughout history, she has regularly punched above her weight. This small reference work highlights Scotland's key movers and shakers: political leaders, inventors, engineers, doctors, writers, kings, artists, sports personalities, singers, actors... Brief biographical data is given for each entry. Updated edition.

Download or read book The Great Scot written by Duncan A. Bruce and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Bruce was Scotland's greatest king ever. The Bruce, as he was known, was crowned King of Scots in 1306, a time when the ancient kingdom of Scotland was under English occupation. When King Robert began his reign, his first two battles were losses. Yet from 1307- 1313, The Bruce won battle after battle.

Download or read book Great Scots A Very Peculiar History written by Fiona Macdonald and published by The Salariya Book Company. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Scots, A Very Peculiar History looks at a whole host of great (and not so great) Scots and their influence on the world. The book features a short history of each person, detailing their achievements, personalities and lifestyles in a quirky and memorable way. Including chapters about Scots in power, scientific Scots, scandalous Scots and many, many more, Great Scots, A Very Peculiar History celebrates the men and women who have helped to shape Scottish history.

Download or read book The Traditional and National Music of Scotland written by Francis Collinson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1966, this was the first book on this subject to be published for over a hundred years. It covers all facets including little-known types of Gaelic song, the bagpipes and their music, including the esoteric subject of pibroch, the Ceol Mor or ‘Great Music’ of the pipes. It gives a comprehensive review of the fiddle composers and their music, and of the Clarsach and its revival, with an example of all-but-extinct Scottish harp music. A chapter is devoted to the music of Orkney and Shetland and the book contains over 100 examples of music many of which were from the author’s own collection and published here for the first time.

Download or read book Great Scot written by Gordon Irving and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Scots Song written by James Macmillan and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated composer shares the story of his musical development and discusses the inspiration he finds in spirituality and his Scottish roots. Sir James MacMillan first burst into prominence in 1990 with the premiere of his composition The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie, about a 17th century Scottish woman who confessed to withccraft. A steady stream of works followed, many of which combined spiritual and political themes. Working extensively in the realm of religious music, MacMillan composed Tu Es Petrus for the Pope’s mass at Westminster Cathedral in 2010. His works are heard around the world, and his Stabat Mater received a private performance at the Sistine Chapel in 2018. In A Scots Song, MacMillan recounts his journey to becoming one of the most acclaimed composures in contemporary classical music.

Download or read book Understanding Scotland Musically written by Simon McKerrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish traditional music has been through a successful revival in the mid-twentieth century and has now entered a professionalised and public space. Devolution in the UK and the surge of political debate surrounding the independence referendum in Scotland in 2014 led to a greater scrutiny of regional and national identities within the UK, set within the wider context of cultural globalisation. This volume brings together a range of authors that sets out to explore the increasingly plural and complex notions of Scotland, as performed in and through traditional music. Traditional music has played an increasingly prominent role in the public life of Scotland, mirrored in other Anglo-American traditions. This collection principally explores this movement from historically text-bound musical authenticity towards more transient sonic identities that are blurring established musical genres and the meaning of what constitutes ‘traditional’ music today. The volume therefore provides a cohesive set of perspectives on how traditional music performs Scottishness at this crucial moment in the public life of an increasingly (dis)United Kingdom.

Download or read book Famous Scots written by Forbes Macgregor and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Scot written by Duncan A. Bruce and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert the Bruce was Scotland's greatest King ever. The Bruce, as he was known, was crowned King of Scots in 1306, a time when the ancient kingdom of Scotland was under harsh and illegal English occupation. As soon as King Robert began his reign, his army was treacherously attacked at Methven, resulting in a calamitous defeat for the Scots which forced the Bruce into hiding. Yet, steadily between 1307 and 1313 King Robert won battle after battle, shunning pitched medieval clashes, and fighting as a guerilla force, a form of warfare which he, perhaps, invented. The war peaked in 1314 when the Bruce faced a formidable English invasion. With brilliant tactics and resolute bravery the vastly outnumbered Scots defeated and routed the knights, archers, and foot soldiers of mighty England at the Battle of Bannockburn. And that's only the first part of this epic tale of the Bruce's long and event-filled life. The Great Scot is a novel filled with valor, treachery, passionate love, journeys great and small, and people of every rank and situation-all from the pages of Scottish history.

Download or read book History of Scottish Women s Writing written by Douglas Gifford and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.

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Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Timothy Rice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book Popular Music written by Roman Iwaschkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986. Its main focus is on American and British works, but it includes significant works from other countries, making it truly international in scope.

Download or read book The Works of James the First King of Scotland written by James I (King of Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Scots Guards written by Hal Leonard Corp and published by Music Sales. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Sales America). This is the first of three volumes of pipe tunes that have been standardized for use throughout the Scots Guards.