Queen amang the Heather: Belle Stewart
Storified by Karen McAulay · Fri, Oct 12 2012 03:54:54
Belle Stewart (1906=1997) was one of our great tradition-bearers, and we have lots of material by/about her in the Whittaker Library. Like this ... the book by her daughter Sheila is just one of many things we have in stock.
But there is much more "out there" which you can access via the web. Such as Tobar an Dualchais (aka, A Kist o' Riches). It's freely available - you don't need to login.
FREE STUFF!
MORE FREE STUFF! (free to you - we subscribe on your behalf)
But there are other web resources that the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has to subscribe to. For these subscriptions, you'll need to login. British Library Sounds is the main one I'd like to tell you about today.
You start by going to the Whittaker Library list of databases ... No need to write this down! http://www.rcs.ac.uk/aboutus/libraryandit/databases.html
You can access our database list various ways:-
a) Royal Conservatoire homepage >About us >Library & IT >Databases
b) Library catalogue http://prism.talis.com/rcs/ has link to Library/IT website
c) Moodle https://inspire.rcs.ac.uk/ - 'Useful Links' takes you to the catalogue (see above).
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland staff and students click on the link to British Library Sounds. You can use it without logging in, but you have access to more recordings if you do. So, select the Royal Conservatoire from a list of institutions. Login with your normal Conservatoire login details.
But there are other web resources that the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has to subscribe to. For these subscriptions, you'll need to login. British Library Sounds is the main one I'd like to tell you about today.
You start by going to the Whittaker Library list of databases ... No need to write this down! http://www.rcs.ac.uk/aboutus/libraryandit/databases.html
You can access our database list various ways:-
a) Royal Conservatoire homepage >About us >Library & IT >Databases
b) Library catalogue http://prism.talis.com/rcs/ has link to Library/IT website
c) Moodle https://inspire.rcs.ac.uk/ - 'Useful Links' takes you to the catalogue (see above).
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland staff and students click on the link to British Library Sounds. You can use it without logging in, but you have access to more recordings if you do. So, select the Royal Conservatoire from a list of institutions. Login with your normal Conservatoire login details.
You can also create your own account, once you're logged in, and this allows you to favourite individual recordings, or to make notes on recordings - private or public. I looked at Peter Kennedy, in the Oral History section.
You might also like to search on the word 'Scottish' under the World and Traditional category.
Or you can search for specific songs - how about this, from 1908 - Oran le Floraidh Dhoranhull air a Phriom. It was recorded on an ethnographic wax cylinder.
You might also like to search on the word 'Scottish' under the World and Traditional category.
Or you can search for specific songs - how about this, from 1908 - Oran le Floraidh Dhoranhull air a Phriom. It was recorded on an ethnographic wax cylinder.
It is worth noting that we have other streamed music services which - although they have particular appeal to classical musicians - also contain lots of interesting stuff for traditionalists. For example, you can see how folksongs were adopted and adapted by classical composers, like Bruch did in his Scottish fantasia. This tune was first published in a mid-19th century book of Scottish folk-songs ... http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com/view/931954 (not everyone knows that!)
