This afternoon, I gave a talk about my archival research, to the Friends of Edinburgh University Library – where I received the strongest indication that people love talking about their memories of school music lessons!
I had great fun introducing the long-forgotten editors at Thomas Nelson – including a lady who went on to work at the University Library after finishing her PhD – and, of course, the people who compiled the Scots Song Books. (They wanted to compile a fifth – I bet you didn’t know that! But Nelson’s didn’t …)
Main picture – tulips outside the University Library
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 