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Music in Edinburgh prospered through the patronage of figures including the merchant Sir John Clerk of Penicuik. [24] The Italian style of classical music was probably first brought to Scotland by the cellist and composer Lorenzo Bocchi, who travelled to Scotland in the 1720s. [44] The Musical Society of Edinburgh was incorporated in 1728. [45]
Classical music in Scotland is all art music in the Western European classical tradition, between its introduction in the eighteenth century until the present day. The development of a distinct tradition of art music in Scotland was limited by the impact of the Scottish Reformation on ecclesiastical music from the sixteenth century. Concerts ...
Music in early modern Scotland includes all forms of musical production in Scotland between the early sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century. In this period the court followed the European trend for instrumental accompaniment and playing.
Scottish folk music (also Scottish traditional music) is a genre of folk music that uses forms that are identified as part of the Scottish musical tradition. There is evidence that there was a flourishing culture of popular music in Scotland during the late Middle Ages, but the only song with a melody to survive from this period is the "Pleugh ...
Scottish Alternative Music Awards; Scottish hip-hop; Scottish Lullaby; Scottish music (1500–1899) Scottish music (1900–1949) Scottish music (1950–1959) Scottish music (1960–1969) Scottish music (1970–1979) Scottish music (1980–1989) Scottish music (1990–1999) Scottish music (2000–2009) Scottish Music Awards; The Singing Street ...
The pipe organ in St John the Evangelist Scottish Episcopal Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh. Church music in Scotland includes all musical composition and performance of music in the context of Christian worship in Scotland, from the beginnings of Christianisation in the fifth century, to the present day.
Giraldus Cambrensis noted that "Scotland and Wales, the latter by grafting the former by intercourse and kinship, strive to emulate Ireland in the practice of music". [4] Early Medieval Scotland and Ireland shared a common culture and language, that although reduced in significance from the High Middle Ages, both persisted in the society of the ...
Francis James Child, one of the key figures in beginning the first folk revival. In the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century there was and an attempt to produce a corpus of Scottish national song, involving Robert Burns (1759–96) building on the work of antiquarians and musicologists such as William Tytler (1711–92), James Beattie (1735–1803) and Joseph Ritson (1752 ...