This document outlines a series of 6 lectures on Scottish musical history given by Dr. Karen McAulay. The lectures will cover various topics throughout Scottish musical development such as Celtic music, 18th and 19th century Scottish music, and the Celtic Twilight movement. The document also provides some context on Dr. McAulay's own background and research interests in late 18th/19th century Scottish music.
Fiddle books by the dozen - Scots Fiddle Fest talk by Karen McAulayKaren McAulay
On 21 November 2015 I was an invited speaker at the Scots Fiddle Fest in Edinburgh. I talked about the AHRC-funded Bass Culture Project run jointly between the University of Glasgow, University of Cambridge and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - and our new website, Hms.scot which is currently released in Beta, pending the launch in February 2016. These are the slides to illustrate my talk.
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Subject headings: Aboriginal Australians; Aboriginal Australians--Folklore; Arts, Aboriginal Australian; Australia--Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park (N.T.); Australia--Burrup Peninsula (W.A.); Australia--Kakadu National Park (N.T.); Australia--Kimberley (W.A.); Australia--Murujuga National Park (W.A.); Australia--Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (N.T.); Cave paintings--Australia--Kimberley (W.A.); Petroglyphs--Australia--Dampier (W.A.); Petroglyphs--Australia--Pilbara (W.A.); Rock paintings--Australia--Kakadu National Park (N.T.); Rock paintings--Australia--Kimberley (W.A.); World Heritage areas--Australia; Antiquities, Prehistoric; Archaeology; Art--History; Bibliography; History; Humanities; Library science; Poster presentations
Fiddle books by the dozen - Scots Fiddle Fest talk by Karen McAulayKaren McAulay
On 21 November 2015 I was an invited speaker at the Scots Fiddle Fest in Edinburgh. I talked about the AHRC-funded Bass Culture Project run jointly between the University of Glasgow, University of Cambridge and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - and our new website, Hms.scot which is currently released in Beta, pending the launch in February 2016. These are the slides to illustrate my talk.
Galleries of the Outback: The Rock Art of Australian AboriginesLea Walker
Poster session on Australian aboriginal rock art, completed for a library science course
Subject headings: Aboriginal Australians; Aboriginal Australians--Folklore; Arts, Aboriginal Australian; Australia--Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park (N.T.); Australia--Burrup Peninsula (W.A.); Australia--Kakadu National Park (N.T.); Australia--Kimberley (W.A.); Australia--Murujuga National Park (W.A.); Australia--Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (N.T.); Cave paintings--Australia--Kimberley (W.A.); Petroglyphs--Australia--Dampier (W.A.); Petroglyphs--Australia--Pilbara (W.A.); Rock paintings--Australia--Kakadu National Park (N.T.); Rock paintings--Australia--Kimberley (W.A.); World Heritage areas--Australia; Antiquities, Prehistoric; Archaeology; Art--History; Bibliography; History; Humanities; Library science; Poster presentations
New collaborative project/graduate course taught by Alla Efimova at San Francisco Art Institute, Fall 2015-Spring 2016. Practical museology for artists.
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The Emerging Voices Lightning Round Session provides emerging professionals in the visual resources field and related, the opportunity to present topics from exceptional coursework, such as a master's thesis, or topics with which they are engaged early in their professional life. Emerging professionals are defined as either students in programs leading to a career in visual resources or related, or those within 10 years of the start of their career. Topics presented reveal new ideas as well as different ways of thinking about established concepts. Speakers will give the conference attendees a glimpse of interests and current discourses of the newest VRA members.
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New collaborative project/graduate course taught by Alla Efimova at San Francisco Art Institute, Fall 2015-Spring 2016. Practical museology for artists.
www.sfai.edu
The Emerging Voices Lightning Round Session provides emerging professionals in the visual resources field and related, the opportunity to present topics from exceptional coursework, such as a master's thesis, or topics with which they are engaged early in their professional life. Emerging professionals are defined as either students in programs leading to a career in visual resources or related, or those within 10 years of the start of their career. Topics presented reveal new ideas as well as different ways of thinking about established concepts. Speakers will give the conference attendees a glimpse of interests and current discourses of the newest VRA members.
Hilary Wang - Findings: A Survey on the State of Web Accessibility in Archives and Special Collections
Cassie Tanks - “Can You Hear Me OK?”: Launching a Story Based Archive During COVID-19
K. Sarah Ostrach - Photos from Taipei in Washington, DC: Processing a Chinese Collection at the National Gallery of Art
Allie Scholten - Remediating Records: Critical Cataloging and Keywork Reparation
Jack O'Malley - Protecting Employment and Building Capacity During a Crisis
World and Human Geography Textbooks, Workbooks, Maps & Readerssdturton
This post offers three collections of learning and teaching resources, for middle and high school students, covering world and human geography, as follows: 1) World Geography and Cultures Textbook with Student Workbooks, 2) Textbooks, Maps, References & Practice Tests, and 3) Classic World Geography Textbooks and Readers. You may also be interested in viewing 30 Geography and Map Lessons & Activities with Maps of the 50 States and 15 Learning Docs for Maps and Geography.
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Mapping Sound 'Off the Map' at UCC: The Potential of Collaboration between th...Elaine Harrington
Paper presentation at CONUL 2017: Inspiring & Supporting Research.
From the English Market to Merchant’s Quay, Cork City has a rich sonic history that musicology postgraduate students examine in UCC’s “Sound Studies” module. Similarly, UCC Library’s Special Collections has a unique collection of sources that, in encouraging consideration of intersections between history and geography, provides clues as to what locations in Cork sounded like in the past. In the last decade, libraries’ Special Collections have moved away from ‘show and tell’ presentations to more conscious engagement with academics, as evidenced by Bahde et al and Mitchell et al. At UCC, this trend has manifested in undergraduates using Special Collections in new ways: research-led teaching on Irish manuscripts and problem-based enquiry for studying short stories (Harrington, 2015). This “Sound Studies” module continues this trend by illustrating how a symbiotic relationship between researchers in Special Collections, music, and digital humanities, permits primary sources to offer a means to study, create, and map historical sounds. As such, this module provides a model for how libraries might become more embedded in teaching and learning within their universities.
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IAML Antwerp 2014 From historical collections to metadataKaren McAulay
ABSTRACT: From Historical Collections to Metadata: a case study in Scottish Musical Inheritance, paper by Dr Karen E McAulay, Music & Academic Services Librarian, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
The contemporary librarian is more than ever before a conduit for making historical material available to scholars and performers alike. The challenge in today’s world is not only to augment the crucial early manuscripts and publications with appropriate electronic versions, but to provide added value by enriching them with contextual and interpretative information.
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The metadata requirements of the two repertoires have similarities and divergences; flexibility is needed to apply suitable metadata across both. Compatibility with pre-existing approaches is also a prerequisite.
By October 2014, we will be building the web resource; this conference would provide a perfect opportunity to share an innovative collaboration between musicology, librarianship and web development.
SALCTG is the Scottish Academic Libraries Cooperative Training Group. We collaboratively run courses to train staff in Scotland's academic libraries. This Slideshare is a presentation I gave to the Customer Services Practitioners Group 20th June 2013
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2. 6 lectures on Scottish music:
• Today 7/3 Looking at research in Celtic music
• 14/3 Overview of Celtic music
• 21/3 18th Century Scottish music
• 28/3 19th Century Scottish music
• 18/4 Reading between the lines:
interpreting compilers' intentions
• 25/4 Celtic Twilight and 20th Century
Revival
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3. General ‘stuff’
• Choice of 2 essays, set by Dr Argondizza & myself.
• Reading list – modern texts, old sources. Dip into
both.
• Celtic – or Scottish? Sometimes I’ll refer to Celtic
music – that’s so I can draw in Irish and Welsh
where I feel it’s appropriate.
• My research: late 18th/19th century Scottish music
• Me: musicologist; music librarian; in RCS - a place
focusing on performance. These circumstances
inevitably affect my approach!
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5. The beginning of a research journey
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The
librarian, the line-manager and the cupboard)
• Alice in Wonderland’s cake (“Eat me”)
• Rudyard Kipling’s questions:-
• “I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.”
• - No wonder journalists are taught the rhyme!
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6. What - Why – When - How – Where - Who
James Simpson’s signature
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7. What - Why – When - How – Where - Who
James Simpson’s Dalfield Walk address
(Book 1)
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8. What - Why – When - How – Where - Who
James Simpson’s Myrekirk address
(Book 3)
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9. What - Why – When - How – Where - Who
James Simpson’s flute chart
(back of Book 1)
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10. What - Why – When - How – Where - Who
What kind of music? Flute ensemble
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11. What - Why – When - How – Where - Who
Psalm tune (by a local precentor)
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12. What - Why – When - How – Where - Who
Anthem/choral item from
a published collection
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13. Six Questions
• What
• Why
• When
• How
• Where
• Who
• Three weeks’ study leave … the deal …
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14. Aims
• Find answers to some of the questions
• Publish findings appropriate places
• Presentation to BA (Scottish Music) students
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15. Realities of research
• Libraries: Glasgow, Dundee, Perth, British Library
• Archives &c: Dundee Archives & Registrar
• People: Charlie Gore (The Scottish Fiddle Music
Index); Peter Harrison (Concert Royal); Myrekirk’s
owner
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17. Outcomes (1)
• Six answers (briefly!)
• What
• Why
• When
• How
• Where
• Who
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18. Outcomes(2)
• Box and Fiddle article (Oct 2002)
• The Scots Magazine (Nov 2002)
• Brio Vol.40 no.1 (Spring/Summer 2003)
• RMA Chronicle Vol.38 (2005)
• Not to mention The James Simpson Show (Feb
2003)
• And …
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19. One thing led to another
• My doctoral research
• Q: Where are the research centres? (and it’s
not just in universities – private
researchers, too.)
• Q: How do research findings get
disseminated?
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20. WARNING! Research as varied as the
people doing it!
• Q: Big question: Mine is historical research –
but what other kinds of research might be
conducted into Scottish music?
• Some examples …
• Q: Even bigger question: What is Scottish
music?
• Discuss …!
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22. Examples of interdisciplinarity
• Musicology combined with ethnomusicology (eg Edinburgh –
School of Scottish Studies, now Department of Celtic and Scottish
Studies http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-
languages-cultures/celtic-scottish-studies
• Musicology combined with literature – eg Dr Kirsteen McCue’s work
(Scottish literature and music) in University of Glasgow’s School of
Critical Studies
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/kirsteenmccue/
• University of Edinburgh’s Centre for the History of the Book
http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb/
• Aberdeen’s Elphinstone Institute – postgrad research in folklore,
ethnology, anthropology
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-
research.php?code=elph_int
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23. Resources
• Historical sources: musical and non-musical
• Modern resources: books, journals, databases
(general and musical)
• Question: What have I used?
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24. Resources
• Answer: depending on what you’re researching, you
could use a very wide range of resources!
• Music (for my research) EASMES database; Wighton
Database, RILM abstracts and indices. Some people
rely heavily on RISM, too. Digitised journals eg JSTOR
• General (for my research) ECCO; others covering other
periods or subjects eg EEBO
• What if a resource goes ‘down the plughole’?!
• General principles of research – being able to back up
statements, cite references, summarise existing
research, explain and defend your own position.
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25. Back to the James Simpson MSS
• Take a look
• (Does anyone play the flute? Lead a church
choir?)
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26. Some interesting links
• Flautist Peter Harrison’s Concert Royal – 18th century
performance practice http://www.classical-
artists.com/concertroyal/
• Peter Harrison and his present research project
http://www2.hull.ac.uk/scarborough/campus-
departments/sse/staff/peter-harrison.aspx
• Dundee – Wighton Heritage Centre at Dundee Central
Library
http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/wighton/heritage.htm
• EASMES (Early American Secular Music and its
European Sources, 1589-1839)
http://www.colonialdancing.org/Easmes/Index.htm
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27. Summary
• Research into Scottish music:-
• Historical
• Interdisciplinary
• Modern
• Resources
• Research dissemination
• The biggest question: what is Scottish music?!
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