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Volume 132 - Year 2002

published by the Royal Museums of Scotland, Chambers St, Edinburgh --  ISSN 0081-1564
a sample of the contents:

Scottish Instrumental Music: 1603 - 1707 - Annual lecture presented by Evelyn Stell - Edinburgh - 11 November 2002

The instruments for which the music was set showed that, among the nobility at any rate, lute cittern mandore and viol were fashionable, while the conspicuous lack of any written music for harp and bagpipe confirms that the aural tradition still prevailed with those most Scottish of instruments.The violin was unique in its use by all classes and its enormous repertoire, which ranged from the elegant compositions of the French and English courts to the lively and often bawdy dance-tunes played by tavern fiddlers.

                                -  An extract from a summary of the lecture, page 560.