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Jan 31, 20232 min read

Scotland's first instrumental music

‘I luvit singing and playing on instruments passing well, and wald gladlie spend tyme quhair the exercise thairof wes within the College;...

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Jan 25, 20232 min read

Mary Queen of Scots' Spies

‘And as for your daggers and knives they are ready to be sent to you, but I only wait for Mr William Kinlowgch’s coming to London, who is...

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Jan 18, 20232 min read

'Come sweet love; let sorrow ceass' - Scottish sacred parodies

‘the word of God incressis plenteouslie in us be singing of the psalmes and spiritual sangis…quhen thay heir it sung into their vulgar...

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Oct 5, 20222 min read

Mary Queen of Scots' Viols and Violins

'there came beneath her window some five or six hundred scoundrels of the town, who gave her a serenade with wretched violins and little...

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