Author: Alfred Wintle Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Old-lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland, Caithness and Sutherland ...
Author: Alfred Wintle Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Old-lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland, Caithness, and Sutherland
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Includes List of members.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Includes List of members.
Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature
Author: Historical Association (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors
Author: Tristram Clarke
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 1788853288
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The revised and updated 7th edition of the bestselling guide to easily discovering more about your Scottish ancestry. Scotland has the best-maintained records and facilities of any country in the world for undertaking family research, and now that the National Archives of Scotland are available online they can be consulted by anyone from whatever country. Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is the National Archives’ official guide and is written in an accessible style from the unique perspective of a custodian of the records. It details all the latest internet developments, including a chapter on family history on the web. It also points to more traditional resources, explaining step by step how to research records of births, marriages and wills. “Excellent help with every phase of genealogical research . . . This book will be a valuable finding aid for many people using the Scottish Record Office, and by no means only for the family historian.” —Books in Scotland “Includes the sort of online sources that have transformed the field since its first publication in 1990, this guide is indispensable for the serious investigator.” —The Scotsman
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 1788853288
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The revised and updated 7th edition of the bestselling guide to easily discovering more about your Scottish ancestry. Scotland has the best-maintained records and facilities of any country in the world for undertaking family research, and now that the National Archives of Scotland are available online they can be consulted by anyone from whatever country. Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is the National Archives’ official guide and is written in an accessible style from the unique perspective of a custodian of the records. It details all the latest internet developments, including a chapter on family history on the web. It also points to more traditional resources, explaining step by step how to research records of births, marriages and wills. “Excellent help with every phase of genealogical research . . . This book will be a valuable finding aid for many people using the Scottish Record Office, and by no means only for the family historian.” —Books in Scotland “Includes the sort of online sources that have transformed the field since its first publication in 1990, this guide is indispensable for the serious investigator.” —The Scotsman
Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland, and America, 1660 to 1820
Author: Ruth Mack Wilson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198164241
Category : Anglican chants
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book presents, for the first time, a history of English liturgical chant as performed in the Church of England and its transmission to churches in Scotland and the United States. In the mid-sixteenth century Reformation, the complex ritual of the Latin rite was replaced by a one-volumeBook of Common Prayer in English. The general nature of the new rubrics, expecially for music, left many of the details of performance to be worked out in traditional ways. Thus the music evolved from its Latin roots in oral, and later written practice. The body of music that makes up the chantingpractice of Anglican and related churches around the world is indeed diversified. Some texts of the liturgy are harmonized in four or more voice parts, often with organ accompaniment, and others are sung in plainsong. The largest group of chants, those for the psalms and canticles, has anidiosyncratic written form and a performance practice that continues to evolve in oral tradition. This music is commonly known as Anglican chant. Its origins in the seventeenth century and its codification in the eighteenth are explored in the choral establishments of the Church of England andparish churches in England, Scotland, and the United States.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198164241
Category : Anglican chants
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book presents, for the first time, a history of English liturgical chant as performed in the Church of England and its transmission to churches in Scotland and the United States. In the mid-sixteenth century Reformation, the complex ritual of the Latin rite was replaced by a one-volumeBook of Common Prayer in English. The general nature of the new rubrics, expecially for music, left many of the details of performance to be worked out in traditional ways. Thus the music evolved from its Latin roots in oral, and later written practice. The body of music that makes up the chantingpractice of Anglican and related churches around the world is indeed diversified. Some texts of the liturgy are harmonized in four or more voice parts, often with organ accompaniment, and others are sung in plainsong. The largest group of chants, those for the psalms and canticles, has anidiosyncratic written form and a performance practice that continues to evolve in oral tradition. This music is commonly known as Anglican chant. Its origins in the seventeenth century and its codification in the eighteenth are explored in the choral establishments of the Church of England andparish churches in England, Scotland, and the United States.
Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing
Author: John G. Gibson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773550615
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845. The Scotch Gael has been reported as loving dance, but step-dancing in Scotland had all but disappeared by 1945. One must look to Gaelic Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Antigonish County, to find this tradition. Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing, the first study of its kind, gives this art form and the people and culture associated with it the prominence they have long deserved. Gaelic Scotland’s cultural record is by and large pre-literate, and references to dance have had to be sought in Gaelic songs, many of which were transcribed on paper by those who knew their culture might be lost with the decline of their language. The improved Scottish culture depended proudly on the teaching of dancing and the literate learning and transmission of music in accompaniment. Relying on fieldwork in Nova Scotia, and on mentions of dance in Gaelic song and verse in Scotland and Nova Scotia, John Gibson traces the historical roots of step-dancing, particularly the older forms of dancing originating in the Gaelic–speaking Scottish Highlands. He also places the current tradition as a development and part of the much larger British and European percussive dance tradition. With insight collected through written sources, tales, songs, manuscripts, book references, interviews, and conversations, Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing brings an important aspect of Gaelic history to the forefront of cultural debate.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773550615
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845. The Scotch Gael has been reported as loving dance, but step-dancing in Scotland had all but disappeared by 1945. One must look to Gaelic Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Antigonish County, to find this tradition. Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing, the first study of its kind, gives this art form and the people and culture associated with it the prominence they have long deserved. Gaelic Scotland’s cultural record is by and large pre-literate, and references to dance have had to be sought in Gaelic songs, many of which were transcribed on paper by those who knew their culture might be lost with the decline of their language. The improved Scottish culture depended proudly on the teaching of dancing and the literate learning and transmission of music in accompaniment. Relying on fieldwork in Nova Scotia, and on mentions of dance in Gaelic song and verse in Scotland and Nova Scotia, John Gibson traces the historical roots of step-dancing, particularly the older forms of dancing originating in the Gaelic–speaking Scottish Highlands. He also places the current tradition as a development and part of the much larger British and European percussive dance tradition. With insight collected through written sources, tales, songs, manuscripts, book references, interviews, and conversations, Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing brings an important aspect of Gaelic history to the forefront of cultural debate.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University Library
Publisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
Publisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel
Author: Edward Godfrey Cox
Publisher:
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Scottish Studies
Author:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description