Residency Background
The Residency
In September 2003, Dr Sally Garden, performer and musicologist,
began her 3-year term in the newly created post of Historical
Musician in Residence at the Wighton Heritage Centre. With
special interests in Scottish art song, the political economy
of music, and music publishing, she is currently directing
a programme of performance, participative events and research
designed to unfold the Wighton Collection as a living resource.
A key part of her overall vision is to bring amateur and professional
together in this task as well as to establish links with formal
education in Fife, Angus and Dundee.
In keeping with the vibrancy and liveliness of
the musical material she's working with, Sally is
keen that events are informal, intimate and highly
sociable, as well as wide-ranging and of high quality
in whatever style they showcase (Courier 15-03-04)
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The Wighton Collection of early printed music contains
over 1000 items of Scottish, English, Irish, Welsh and European
origin. Assembled in the C19 by Andrew Wighton, Dundee merchant
and amateur musician, the Collection is important not only
from the point of view of the rarity of some of the published
and occasional manuscript sources it contains, but from the
very fact of its diversity. Capturing the rich and often subtle
musical interactions between Scotland and Europe, through
a wide range of genres and late C17 to early C19 sources,
the Collection makes a particular statement about the historical
strength and confidence of Scottish musical life. Moreover,
as a single resource for the study of musical culture in Enlightenment
Scotland, Wighton's Collection remains unsurpassed.
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