'Foreign Sonnets Bear the Gree': Music and Cultural Identity in Scottish Enlightenment Society

Here’s a link to a paper I wrote last December as part of my master’s degree. For several years I’ve been perplexed by the way 18th-century Scottish musicians handled trying to sound Scottish, British, or European and my eventual epiphany came when I realised Scots literature scholars had already done a lot of the thinking for me. This paper is hardly the end of the matter, but it is a first step in looking at Scottish music through the same lenses we use for the Scots poetry contemporary to it.