Scotland

16 articles related to Scotland:

Music Theory

8 songs to introduce Aeolian mode and natural minor scale

Over the past centuries, the composition of polyphonic music has been primarily focused on seven diatonic scales...
Poetry

On the Massacre of Glencoe: Walter Scott lyrics set to Beethoven's arrangement of folk melody

The Massacre of Glencoe is one of the darkest chapters in Scottish history which saw the treacherous slaughter of...
OBOE

The dramatic-abstract of Thea Musgrave's music as influenced by serialism

Thea Musgrave is a Scottish-American composer whose formative years fell on the mid-1950s when revolutionary musical...
Music Theory

Lydian mode: famous examples throughout the music history

Major and minor modes are the most used diatonic scales in classical and popular music due to their versatile structure...
Band

Emotion over meaning: the enigmatic lyrics of Cocteau Twins in the languages of glossolalia

Having first appeared in religious practices, the term glossolalia referred to the ability of a believer to... 2 comments
ORCHESTRA

The multicultural heritage of Granville Bantock from Celtic folk music to Eastern philosophy of Omar Khayyám

Granville Bantock was one of the most cheerful English composers whose rich heritage comprised more than 800 works which...
Collaboration

Literary recital for fiddle and harmonium with British flavour

A rare duo that brings together two of Britain's foremost folk and jazz artists was formed by a Scottish fiddler Aidan...
SYNTHESIZER

Classical modernity in Anna Meredith's underwater reality

The Scottish composer Anna Meredith has already worked with the BBC and countless orchestras and chamber ensembles...
FILM

Young Adam score captures the desolate landscape of the 50s Scotland

An adaptation of Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi's loosely autobiographical novel, Young Adam is a harsh portrait of a...
Violin

Scottish fiddle tradition elevated by guitar ornamentation

Duncan Chisholm is a contemporary Scottish fiddle composer whose interpretations of traditional Highland music are...
FIDDLE

The jig dance tradition: five centuries old and still counting

Jig is a folk dance that became popular in Scotland and northern England in the 16th century and in Ireland in the 18th...
Violin

The sad beauty of slow air in Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch

'Slow air' refers to the type of the Irish traditional music, first brought to a wider audience by the publishings of...
HARDANGER FIDDLE

You can't stay still when you hear the reel

The Shetland islands, located between Norway and Scotland, has always had their folk music at the crossroads of two...
Classical Guitar

Farewell to Stromness: the protest tune that fell into national consciousness

One of the most respected composers of his generation, Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016) bridged medieval and...
SONGWRITER

The Snows They Melt the Soonest survives through folk tradition

The Snows They Melt the Soonest is a British folk song dating back to at least as far as 1821. It was mentioned, along...
PIANO

Ambient and classical mixed on the Orkney Islands

Erland Cooper is a Scottish producer and musician born and raised on Scottish archipelago of Orkney. Cooper spent years...