Dr Karen McAulay explores the history of Scottish music collecting, publishing and national identity from the 18th to 20th centuries. Research Fellow at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, author of two Routledge monographs.
WordPress reminded me today about a blog post that I originally wrote three years ago for WhittakerLive, the Whittaker Library blog.
I shared it again in 2024, and because I am an admirer of Francis George Scott’s work arranging Scottish songs, I thought it would be worth airing again today.
(You can read about him a bit more in my book, A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity, published by Routledge in 2025. Most affordable on Kindle or as a paperback.)
This post was originally written for the Whittaker Live library blog in July 2023.
A few weeks ago, I was thinking about the Scottish song settings by Francis George Scott (1880-1958). Opinions seemed to be divided about his output, but this composer – who for most of his career taught music at Jordanhill Teacher Training College in Glasgow – arranged and composed dozens and dozens of songs. He worked […]
Francis George Scott – Would he make it into your Music Case?
