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  • 1. From Historical Collections to Metadata A case study in Scottish Musical Inheritance Karen E McAulay, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

2. Timeless and Unchanging? 1822, and 1845: William Marshalls updated piano accompaniment 3. It's disturbing when I see kids on buses, listening to music on their phones, and it's just going: tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, with no bass. Bass culture is Jamaica's gift to the world and technology is, kind of, ruining that. Bass is sexy. Don Letts, Is this it?, The Guardian, 4 April 2009 Photo: Eamonn McCabe But why, Bass Culture? 4. Charles Gore From book to database http://www.scottishmusicindex.org/ 5. Gores system based on:- Breandan Breathnachs Irish collection, Ceol Rince na hEireann, (Breathnach & Small, 1963) Gores Index 6. Wighton Heritage Centre Dundee http://www.leisureandculturedundee.com/library/wighton Friends of Wighton http://www.friendsofwighton. com/contact.htm Temporary Wighton Database Search Facility http://www.johnbagnall.info/ allwighton.html 7. Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 15891839: An Index http://www.colonialdancing.org/Easmes/Index.htm 8. Nigel Gatherers Traditional Music http://www.nigelgatherer.com/index.html 9. National Library of Scotland Digital Gallery http://digital.nls.uk/gallery.cfm Special Collections of Printed Music http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed- music/pageturner.cfm?id=97135480 10. copac* Union Catalogue for UK University and National Libraries http://copac.ac.uk/ 11. Work in Progress 12. Outputs Hms.Scot 22 tune-books digitised Searchable by tune titles, personal names and places Incipits and cadences Visual comparisons Commentary on collections, tunes and paratext Spreadsheet contents 13. Project Social Media Twitter @bassyculture Blog: Bassculture.info/ Dont just follow talk to us! 14. Dr Karen McAulay [email protected] @bassyculture @karenmca BassCulture.info/(Mrs Gordon of Knockespoch mp3) 15. Concerto Caledonia was playing Mrs Gordon of Knockespoch, from William Marshalls Volume 2nd of a Collection of Scottish Melodies, Reels, Strathspeys, 1845


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