¤ Welcome to ScotMus.com

Welcum — Fàilte — Croeso — Welcome!

ScotMus.com aims to become an experimental online reconstruction of the entire history of all styles and traditions of Scottish music, from the oldest surviving evidence up to the early modern era. The heart of the project is the online publication of new free-to-access multimedia editions of the key sources of Scottish music, along with its cultural heritage — all presented in a scholarly but chatty style.

My primary work is on the music section — an ever-expanding series of musical scores, transcribed as originally written by their own authors, with minimal editorial interference on my part. But you can also just listen to handy audio illustrations of their contents, helpfully edited to try and make practical musical sense of the sometimes difficult scores. Because this project's not just for musicians and musicologists — it's for normal people, too. In fact, the music section's built like a virtual juke-box (no coins required: just press 'n' play).

But you'll also find an ever-expanding selection of historic writings and new essays on Scottish music gathered together in the texts section. Here, you can browse through thoughts by and about the people who made, listened to, and mused over the sounds in the first place.

It's an eternal work-in-progress, so stay tuned...

yours aye,
dr. steve sweeney-turner,
freelance musicologist, scotland