'By my own hand' - Women's manuscript collection and song culture in early modern Scotland (1630-1700).

从民族音乐学的角度来看，苏格兰丰富而充满活力的歌曲文化的流行和口头传统得到了从当地民间俱乐部到大型国际节日(如凯尔特连接)的审查、分析和庆祝。与此同时，在海伦娜·门尼·夏尔和她的同代人肯尼斯·埃利奥特的开创性工作的基础上，《musik Fyne》(宫廷歌曲)也获得了学术界的关注。我提出的研究目标是17世纪苏格兰不太知名的音乐文化，它介于以下两个看似两极分化的语料库之间：早期流行歌曲文化。目前聚焦于17世纪文化的学术重点是以男性为中心的政治神学讨论；然而，我的特别研究将调查迄今未被探索的女性和歌曲领域，揭示一个多方面的、以手稿为基础的文化网络。

From an ethnomusicological perspective, the demotic and oral traditions of Scotland's rich and vibrant song culture has been examined, analysed and celebrated from the local folk club scene to the large-scale, international festivals such as Celtic Connections. Meanwhile, 'musik fyne' (or 'court song') has also gained scholarly attention, building on the seminal work of Helena Mennie Shire and her contemporary Kenneth Elliott. My proposed research targets Scotland's less celebrated musical culture of the seventeenth-century which falls between these seemingly polarising corpora: early popular song culture. Current scholarship focussing on the seventeenthcentury culture emphasises male-centred, political-theological discussions; however, my particular study will investigate the, as yet, under-explored area of women and song, revealing a many-faceted, manuscript-based cultural network.