The Bass Culture team has adopted a serious, studious demeanour as the project rolls towards its October web-launch. Not that we weren’t serious and studious before, but we’re even more so now, which goes some way to explaining why there are fewer blogposts these days.
David and Karen are editing the spreadsheet (consistency is our middle name, and qualitative judgements are very carefully weighed up, if they’re allowed to remain at all!). Luca is building the website.
It’s all the extra things that Karen’s afraid of forgetting! There is going to be a bibliography of key sources: the following are some of them, but we’ll provide the full bibliographic details on the website itself!
- Baptie’s Musical Scotland
- The British Union-Catalogue of early music printed before the year 1801 : a record of the holdings of over one hundred libraries throughout the British Isles (in our database, abbreviated as BUCEM)
- Douglas, Sheila – The Atholl Collection catalogue: 300 years of Scottish music and poetry (Perth, UK: Perth & Kinross Libraries, 1999)
- Glen, John – The Glen collection of Scottish dance music : strathspeys, reels, and jigs, selected from the earliest printed sources, or from the composer’s works [2 vols, 1891 and 1895](In our database, in the format: Glen, Collection of Scottish Dance Music)
- Gore, Charles – Scottish Music Index http://www.scottishmusicindex.org/
- Johnson, David – Music and Society
- Kidson, Frank – British music publishers, printers and engravers : London, provincial, Scottish and Irish. From Queen Elizabeth’s reign to George the Fourth’s, with select bibliographical lists of musical works printed and published within that period (1900) (In our database, in the format, Kidson, British Music Publishers
- National Library of Scotland, Digital Gallery
- Oxford Music
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- RISM (Repertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales)
- Scottish Book Trade Index (In our database, SBTI)
- Smith and Humphries’ Music Publishing in the British Isles
All the information is there in Karen’s Mendeley and Diigo accounts, but it still needs to be collated and double, treble-checked!
Hold onto your hats, folks – it’s going to be quite a ride!