Musicology – Published Editions
2006 James Oswald: The Caledonian Pocket Companion Books 1-6 on CDROM with Nick Parkes. 2007 James Oswald: The Caledonian Pocket Companion Books 7-12 on CDROM with Nick Parkes.
Musicology – Chapters, Articles and Reviews
1969 Opera Northern European Style. In: Scottish International No.6 April 1969, pp.13-20.
1980 Scottish Women Composers. In: Chapman 27-28 Vol.VI. No. 3-4, Summer 1980, Edinburgh, pp.62-64.
1985 An Introduction to Gaelic Psalms. In: Stretto Vol.5, No.1 Spring 1985, pp.3-6.
1986 Hunting the Wren. In: Stretto Vol.6, No.4 Christmas 1986, pp.10-15.
1987 Dainty Davie. In: Stretto Vol.7, No.1 Spring 1987, pp.32-36.
1988 The Celebrated Trumpet Tune. In: Stretto Vol. 7, No.4 Winter 1987/88, pp.8-16.
1988 Hans Gal- A Personal Appreciation. In: Stretto Vol. 7, No.4 Winter 1987/88, pp.24-27.
1993 The Timeless Heritage of Music. In: J.M.Fladmark (Ed.) Heritage Donhead, Wimbledon, pp.301-310
1993 Music. In: P.H.Scott (ed.) Scotland – A Concise Cultural History Edinburgh 1994, pp.173-190
1994 Mozart and the Scots. In: The Music of Scotland, The University of Waikato (New Zealand) Scottish Studies Association, Avizandum
Editions No.2 pp.16-21.
1994 A Cry of Prayer/Eigh Urnaigh Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Lecture 1994 (video).
1994 The Homecoming of the Deskford Carnyx. In: J.M.Fladmark (Ed.) Cultural Tourism, Donhead, Wimbledon, pp.375-384.
1994 The Canonicity of Scottish Music. In: Scotland’s 1 Edinburgh University Press1994, pp.81-86.
1995 On the Trail of Music: Origins of the Scottish Triple Pipes, In: Fladmark, J.M. (ed) Sharing the Earth: Local identity in Global Culture,
Donhead pp.149-162.
1996 Greysteil. In: J.H.Williams (Ed.) Stewart Style 1513-1542 – Essays on the Court of James V. East Linton 2001, pp.142-152.
1997 ‘The Wee Apollo’: Burns and Oswald. In: K.Simpson (Ed.) Love & Liberty, Robert Burns: A Bicentenary Celebration, East Linton 1997, pp.326-333
1998 Voices of the Cherubim – A Musical Odyssey to Scotland. In: J.M.Fladmark (Ed.) In Search of Heritage as Pilgrim or Tourist? Donhead, Dorset pp.55-75.
1998 On the Trail of the Spies. In Scotlands 5.1,1998, pp.23-44.
1998 A Filter In The Stream. In: Chapman 89-90, Edinburgh 1998, pp.63-66.
1998 The Sounds of Ancient Scotland. In: E. Hickmann/I. Laufs/R. Eichmann (Hrsg.), Studien zur Musikarchäologie II. Orient-Archäeologie 7. Rahden, 2000, pp.325-336.
1998 The music of the spheres. Lecture given to The Henrysson Society, Dunfermline Music Institute, 9th May 1998.
1998 Fo Speuran mu Thuath – Under Northern Skies – The Early Bardic connections between the Gaels and the Icelanders, In: Cothrom 18, Geamhradh 98-99, pp.20-24 and Cothrom 19, Earrach 1999, pp.32-34.
2000 Ancestral Voices. In: J.M.Fladmark (Ed.) Heritage and Museums, Donhead, Dorset, pp.265-271.
2000 Cecil Coles (1888-1918) in R.Barnett (Ed.) The British Music Society Newsletter 88 December 2000, pp.98-99.
2000 Review of Donaldson, W., “The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society 1750-1950 . . . “, In: Aberdeen University Review LVIII, no.204, Autumn 2000, pp.343-344.
2001 The Song of the Cherubim. In: G.Caie/R.J.Lyall/S.Mapstone/K.Simpson (Eds.) The European Sun East Linton 2001, pp.30-43.
2001 Island Rock Gongs, In: Scottish Islands Explorer Volume 2 Issue 2, Mar/Apr 2001, pp.7-8.
2002 Music of the North – Echoes of tunes once shared. In: J.M.Fladmark (Ed.) Heritage & Identity, Donhead, Dorset, pp.99-109.
2002 The Womb of Sound. In: E. Hickmann/I. Laufs/R. Eichmann (Hrsg.), Studien zur Musikarchäologie III. Orient-Archäeologie 10. Rahden 2002, pp.27-38.
2003 Songs of Strath. In: Comunn Eachdraidh Ealaghol agus na Torran, Newsletter 5. Autumn 2003, pp.3-8.
2003 Six illustrated essays on Music for www.theglasgowstory.com.
2004 The Portnacroish Rock Gong and Some of its Companions, In: Appin Historical Society Newsletter 2004.
2004 ‘Listening to Picts’. In: E. Hickmann/I. Laufs/R. Eichmann (Hrsg.), Studien zur Musikarchäologie IV Orient-Archäeologie 15, Rahden 2004.
2004 Reconstructing the River Erne Horn. In: Ulster Journal of Archaeology Vol 61 2002, pp.17-25.
2004 Thomas Wilson, The String Quartets. In: G. Hair (Ed.) The Music of Thomas Wilson, Glasgow 2002.
2004 ‘Hand Bells of the Celtic Church in Scotland’, In: Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Volume LXIII 2002-2004, Inverness 2006, pp.267-291.
2004 ‘Erik Chisholm and Piobaireachd’, In: Piping Today Issue Number 10, pp.46-49.
2005 ‘Night Song of the Bards’, In: McCulloch, M. (Ed.) Scottish Studies Review 6.1, Spring 2005, pp.43-58.
2005 “Wooden Artefact” In: Greig, M.K., “Excavations in the Laird’s Hall, Drum Castle, Aberdeenshire” In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland 134 (2004), pp.436-438.
2006 “Ogam and Interlace Notation, Fact or Fiction?”, In: E. Hickmann/I. Laufs/R. Eichmann (Hrsg.), Studien zur Musikarchäologie V, Orient-Archäeologie
Band 20, Rahden 2006, pp.305-318.
2006 “Scottish Flute Music of the Eighteenth century”, In: Flute Focus Issue 5, January 2006, Albany New Zealand, pp.6-8.
2006 Purser, J., “Number Symbolism and Gematria in the music of Carver, Clerk and Wallace” Musica Scotica: 800 years of Scottish Music, conference 29.4.06, St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh.
2006 Purser, J., “Sources for MacPherson’s ‘Night Song of the Bards’” paper given at Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2006, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, 20.7.06
2006 Purser, J., “Strings in Disguise” paper given at the Colloquium, The Violin in Scotland, St Cecilia’s Hall, 26.8.06.
2007 Purser, J., ‘Early Modern Music’, In: Harris, B., and MacDonald, A.R., (Eds.) Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c.1100-1707, Dundee 2007, pp.212-224.
2007 Purser, J., ‘Erik Chisholm’s ‘Hindustani’ Piano Concerto’, In: Proceedings of Musica Scotica Conference 28.4.2007 at Glasgow University.
2007 Purser, J., ‘Promise for the future in an ancient tradition’, In: West Highland Free Press, 10.8.07, p.17.
2007 Purser, J., ‘Chasing A Restless Muse – Part I’, In: British Music Society News, 116 - December 2007, pp.233-240.
2007 Purser, J., ‘The Celts In Sardinia: a Music Relationship’. In: Soi, A., Staffa, F. And 8Serra, R., (Eds.) 20 Years la nostra storia, Cagliari 2007, pp.98-99.
2007 Purser, J., Review of Prehistoric Music of Ireland, In: Historic Brass Society Journal, Vol.19 2007, pp.115-117.
2008 Purser, J., ‘Chasing A Restless Muse – Part II’, In: British Music Society News, 116 - March 2008, pp.278-286.
2008 Purser, J., ‘Gaelic Song, Music and Landscape, General or Particular?’ at Musica Scotica Conference: 800 years of Scottish Music, University of Glasgow 26.5.2008.
2009 Purser, J., “Scottish Strains”, Review In: Early Music, Vol.XXXVII/1, February 2009, pp.121-123.
2009 Purser, J., “A’ Tionndadh Ìomhaighean gu Fuaimean”, In: Cox, R. (Ed.) Dualchas agus an Àraineachd sin am fearann caoin, Slèite 2009, pp.129-134.
2009 Purser, J., “Crathes: Source of Heavenly Harmony”, In: Leopard, September 2009, pp.10-13.
2009 Purser, J., Review “Bagpipes: A National Collection of a National Instrument, by Hugh Cheape”, In: Review of Scottish Culture, No.21 2009, pp.156-157.
2010 Purser, J., “Charles O’Brien (1882-1968)”, In: British Music Society News 125, March 2010, pp.242-246.
2011 Purser, J., “Harlaw’s Music – Giving voice to the tragedy of battle”, In: Leopard Magazine, February 2011, pp.15-17.
2011 Purser, J., “Modernism and Music in Scotland Between the Wars”, In: Dymock and McCulloch (Eds.) Scottish & International Modernisms, Glasgow
2011, pp.171-183.
2012 Purser, J., "The Piano Music of Erik Chisholm 1904-1965", In: Jackson, C., (Ed.) International Piano, No.12 April/May 2012, p.
2012 Purser, J., "Ossianic Lay, by Erik Chisholm", In: Jackson, C., (Ed.) International Piano, No.12 April/May 2012, p.59.
2013 Purser, J., Review, “Karen McAulay, Our Ancient National Airs . . .”, In: Scottish Literary Review, Autumn/Winter 2013, pp.106-108.
2014 Purser, J., Review of William Lamb Puirt-a-Beul, In: Scottish Gaelic Studies 29.
2014 Purser, J., “The Significance of Music in the Gàidhealtachd in the Pre- and Early-Historic Period”, In: Blankenhorn, V., (Ed.), Scottish Gaelic Studies 37 - Craobh nan Ubhal A Festschrift for John MacInnes, Edinburgh 2014, pp.207-221.
2014 Purser, J., "The Music - Sir Patrick Spens as it is sung", In: Sir Patric Spens, The background of the ballad and the vision of the artist - Robert Burns, Limner, Dunfermline 2014, pp.70-77.
2014 one of the “Voices of Tradition” in Ritchie, F., and Orr, D., Wayfaring Strangers – the musical voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia, University of North Carolina 2014, pp.9, 33, 66-67, 156-157.
2015 Two chapters on “BBC Scotland” and “The Piping Centre and the College of Piping”, In: Molleson, K., (Ed.) Dear Green Sounds, Glasgow, pp.104-117.
2015 “Where the Simoon Blows”, In: Opera June 2015, pp.708-713.
2016 “Mac-Talla na Sàmhchaire – Echoes of Silence” In: Re-Soundings, Graphical House re-soundings.com.
2016 “How a dying father gave Scotland a musical great” In: The National, 3.6.2016, pp.26-27.
2016 “Shipowner’s son sets sail for musical majesty . . .” In: The National, 10.6.2016, pp.24-25.
2016 “A musical genius with the Borders in his blood”, In: The National, 17.6.2016, pp.26-27.
2016 “Frederic Lamond: A soaring talent that wretched poverty could not keep down” In: The National, 12.8.2016, pp..
2016 “Helen Hopekirk: Romantic, poetic and tinged with Gaelic folk music” In: The National, 18.8.2016, pp..
2016 “The pacifist who made music in the thick of war” In: The National, 28.10.2016, pp.26-27.
2016 “A tragic silence” In: The National, 4.11.2016, pp.26-27.
2016 “A genius & a hero” In: The National, 11.11.2016, pp.26-27.
2017 “A question of identity” In: The National, 14.4.2017, pp.20-21.
2017 “Do the math and see the light . . .” In: The National, 28.4.17, pp.20-21.
2017 “Burning Questions” In: The National, 12.5.17, pp.20-21.
2017 “Farewell to the Moon Goddess” In: The National, 26.5.17, pp.20-21.
2017 “Big love” In: The National, 2.6.17, pp.20-21.
2017 8 essays in Riach with Moffat and Purser, Arts and the Nation, Edinburgh 2017, pp104-142.
2018 Review of “Robert Burns in Song and Dance” by Sue Knight, in Early Dance Circle No.109, September 2018, p.11.
2019 “A Lyre Bridge of the Early Iron Age from High Pasture Cave, Scotland: 2. The Context: Environmental – Perceptual – Symbolic – Cultural, and its Implications”, In: Studien zur Musikarchäologie XI, Rahden 2019, pp.265-280.
2019 “Hey presto! How Munro and Mclean outsmarted the Italians” In: The National 28.10.19, pp.20-21
2019 “Bringing the Enlightened period to life with music”, In: The National 4.11.19, pp.30-31.
2019 “The Philosopher’s Opera”, In: The National 11.11.19, pp.20-21.
2019 “A champion of Scottish musical genius”, In: The National 18.11.2019, pp.20-21.
2019 “Remarkable Scot’s royal approval”, In: The National, 25.11.2019, pp.20-21.
2019 “A Reel Find”, In: The National, 2.12.2019, pp.20-21.
2019 “His Melodious Lordship . . . Fiddler Tam”, In: The National, 9.12.2019, pp.20-21.
2019 “Lord of the Dance, John Purser on Scots fiddler Niel Gow 1727-1807”, In: The National, 16.12.2019, pp.20-21.
2019 “The Scots who helped mould Mozart?”, In: The National 23.12.2019, pp.20-21.
2019 “Scottish friends in high places”, In: The National 30.12.2019, pp.36-37.
2020 “Away with the Fairies”, In: The National 2.3.2020, pp.20-21.
2020 “Beyond the Carnyx: Recent Developments in Scottish Music Archaeology”, In: Kolltveit and Rainio (eds), The Archaeology of Sound, Acoustics and Music: Studies in Honour of Cajsa S. Lund, Berlin 2020, pp.291-306.
2020 “A hard time for people of faith” (In search of Dugald Buchanan) In: West Highland Free Press, 3.4.20, p.16.2020 “The chequered history of Scotland’s tartans”, In: The National 24.4.2020, p.17.
2020 “Was it an Englishman who invented the kilt?” In: The National, 2.5.2020, p.18.
2020 “The Scot who inspired Beethoven and Schubert”, In: The National, 30.5.20, p.19.
2020 “The stories of the Fianna . . tales told in song”, In: The National, 6.6.20. p.19.
2020 “Why the work of James MacPherson was truly revolutionary”, In: The National, 13.6.20. p.18.
2020 “Memories of the quern dust calendar in a trip to Poland”, Tobar an Dualchais In: West Highland Free Press, 19.6.20.
2020 “Crisp as eggshells, or a strathspey”, In: The National, 13.7.2020, p.18.
2020 “All in a day's work”, In: The National, 20.7.2020, p.18.
2020 “James Oswald (1710-1769) and Highland music: Context and legacy”, In: Hearing Heritage, Selected essays on Scotland’s Music from Musica Scotica conferences, pp.39-54.
2020 A musical journey from earth to heaven. did we make it? Paper given to Lowland and Borders Piping Society Colloquium celebrating Declaration of Arbroath, 14.11.2020
2021 "Scott and MacCunn", presentation at 12th International Walter Scott Conference 6-8.7.21
2014 “The Music – Sir Patrick Spens as it is sung”, In: Sir Patric Spens, The background of the ballad and the vision of the artist – Robert Burns, Limner, Dunfermline 2014, pp.70-77.
Musicology - Entries in Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
1994 All music entries in Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland
2001 The New Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Drysdale; Glasgow; John Park; R.A.Smith.)
2004 New Dictionary of National Biography (Alexander Campbell; John Donaldson; David Kennedy; MacArthur, family of; MacCrimmon, family of; MacKay, family of; Roderick Morison; William Stenhouse; John Thomson; Thomas Wilson.)
2004 Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Glasgow)
2006 Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (Isobel Baillie; Lucy Broadwood; Joan Dickson; Isobel Dunlop; Anne Gilchrist; Isobel Grant; Helen Hopekirk; Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser; Meg of Abernethy; Robena Laidlaw; Frances Tolmie), Edinburgh 2006.
Other – local history, Gaelic visual arts, etcetera
1998 “Mere Shadow of a Fleeting Thought?” The Scotsman 13.3.1998, p.19.
2005 Paths of Our Ancestors, In: Farquhar, A. (Ed.) The Storr – unfolding landscape, Edinburgh 2005, pp.84-86.
2006 Saint Maelrubha, In: Comunn Eachdraidh Ealaghol agus na Torran Newsletter 7 (2005/6), pp.2-10.
2008 “A Portrait Sketch of the Portraitist”, In: Joie de Vivre! – The Art of Alexander Goudie, published by Paisley Art Gallery, September 2008.
2009 “The Celtic Ballet: Ballet, Baton and Brush in Search of Peace in Time of War”, In: Lindsay, L., (Ed.), Journal of the Scottish Society for Art
History, Volume 13 2008-2009, Dundee 2009, pp.7-15.
2009 “Review: Singing Songs of the Scottish heart: William McTaggart 1835-1910”, In: Lindsay, L., (Ed.), Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, Volume 13 2008-2009, Dundee 2009, pp.67-68.
2009 “Opinion – Take Your Art Home With You”, In: John Muir Trust Journal, 47 Autumn 09, p.30.
CD Liner Notes
Scotland’s Music double CD Linn CKD 008
The Kilmartin Sessions CD Kilmartin House Museum, Kilmartin, Argyllshire.
Sounds of the Ancient World I KPM 356 CD
Kinloche his Fantassie ASV Gaudeamus CD GAU 134
Leo Scotiae irritatus Cantatas by John Clerk of Penicuik Hyperion CDA 67007.
The Leda Trio – Airs for the Seasons – Scottish Music of the 1700s Springthyme SPRCD 1036.
Colin’s Kisses – The Music of James Oswald, Linn CKD 101
Camerata Scotland – Mendelssohn, Thomson NYOS 003
Alexander Mackenzie Hyperion CDA 66764
The Romantic Piano Concerto (9) Mackenzie/Tovey; Piano Concerti. Hyperion CDA 67023
MacCunn; Land of the Mountain and the Flood. Hyperion CDA 66815
Wallace, Symphonic Poems, Hyperion CDA 66848
Wallace, Creation Symphony, Hyperion CDA 66987
Cecil Coles – Music from Behind the Lines, Hyperion CDA 67293
Lamond Symphony in A major, Hyperion CDA 67387
Scottish String Quartets Meridian CDE 84445
Chris Norman; The Caledonian Flute Boxwood BOX-902
Bonnie Rideout; Scottish Inheritance Tulloch Music TM 501
Abby Newton; Castles, Kirks, and Caves Redwing Music RWMCD 5410
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 1 Dunelm Records DRD0222
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 2 Dunelm Records DRD0223
Fiddler Tam – the music of Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie Linn CKD 240
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 3 Dunelm Records DRD0224
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 4 Dunelm Records DRD0225
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 5 Divine Art Ltd ddv24140
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 6 Divine Art Ltd ddv24149
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 7 Divine Art Ltd ddv24155
Bonnie Rideout – Fiddle Piobaireachd Vol 1, Tulloch Music tm504, 2010
Bonnie Rideout – Harlaw, Scotland 1411, Tulloch Music tm505, 2011
Bonnie Rideout – Fiddle Piobaireachd Vol 2, Tulloch Music tm506, 2013
Charles O'Brien - (1882-1968), Toccata Classics TOCC0256
Chisholm: Songs - Delphian DCD34259
2006 James Oswald: The Caledonian Pocket Companion Books 1-6 on CDROM with Nick Parkes. 2007 James Oswald: The Caledonian Pocket Companion Books 7-12 on CDROM with Nick Parkes.
Musicology – Chapters, Articles and Reviews
1969 Opera Northern European Style. In: Scottish International No.6 April 1969, pp.13-20.
1980 Scottish Women Composers. In: Chapman 27-28 Vol.VI. No. 3-4, Summer 1980, Edinburgh, pp.62-64.
1985 An Introduction to Gaelic Psalms. In: Stretto Vol.5, No.1 Spring 1985, pp.3-6.
1986 Hunting the Wren. In: Stretto Vol.6, No.4 Christmas 1986, pp.10-15.
1987 Dainty Davie. In: Stretto Vol.7, No.1 Spring 1987, pp.32-36.
1988 The Celebrated Trumpet Tune. In: Stretto Vol. 7, No.4 Winter 1987/88, pp.8-16.
1988 Hans Gal- A Personal Appreciation. In: Stretto Vol. 7, No.4 Winter 1987/88, pp.24-27.
1993 The Timeless Heritage of Music. In: J.M.Fladmark (Ed.) Heritage Donhead, Wimbledon, pp.301-310
1993 Music. In: P.H.Scott (ed.) Scotland – A Concise Cultural History Edinburgh 1994, pp.173-190
1994 Mozart and the Scots. In: The Music of Scotland, The University of Waikato (New Zealand) Scottish Studies Association, Avizandum
Editions No.2 pp.16-21.
1994 A Cry of Prayer/Eigh Urnaigh Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Lecture 1994 (video).
1994 The Homecoming of the Deskford Carnyx. In: J.M.Fladmark (Ed.) Cultural Tourism, Donhead, Wimbledon, pp.375-384.
1994 The Canonicity of Scottish Music. In: Scotland’s 1 Edinburgh University Press1994, pp.81-86.
1995 On the Trail of Music: Origins of the Scottish Triple Pipes, In: Fladmark, J.M. (ed) Sharing the Earth: Local identity in Global Culture,
Donhead pp.149-162.
1996 Greysteil. In: J.H.Williams (Ed.) Stewart Style 1513-1542 – Essays on the Court of James V. East Linton 2001, pp.142-152.
1997 ‘The Wee Apollo’: Burns and Oswald. In: K.Simpson (Ed.) Love & Liberty, Robert Burns: A Bicentenary Celebration, East Linton 1997, pp.326-333
1998 Voices of the Cherubim – A Musical Odyssey to Scotland. In: J.M.Fladmark (Ed.) In Search of Heritage as Pilgrim or Tourist? Donhead, Dorset pp.55-75.
1998 On the Trail of the Spies. In Scotlands 5.1,1998, pp.23-44.
1998 A Filter In The Stream. In: Chapman 89-90, Edinburgh 1998, pp.63-66.
1998 The Sounds of Ancient Scotland. In: E. Hickmann/I. Laufs/R. Eichmann (Hrsg.), Studien zur Musikarchäologie II. Orient-Archäeologie 7. Rahden, 2000, pp.325-336.
1998 The music of the spheres. Lecture given to The Henrysson Society, Dunfermline Music Institute, 9th May 1998.
1998 Fo Speuran mu Thuath – Under Northern Skies – The Early Bardic connections between the Gaels and the Icelanders, In: Cothrom 18, Geamhradh 98-99, pp.20-24 and Cothrom 19, Earrach 1999, pp.32-34.
2000 Ancestral Voices. In: J.M.Fladmark (Ed.) Heritage and Museums, Donhead, Dorset, pp.265-271.
2000 Cecil Coles (1888-1918) in R.Barnett (Ed.) The British Music Society Newsletter 88 December 2000, pp.98-99.
2000 Review of Donaldson, W., “The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society 1750-1950 . . . “, In: Aberdeen University Review LVIII, no.204, Autumn 2000, pp.343-344.
2001 The Song of the Cherubim. In: G.Caie/R.J.Lyall/S.Mapstone/K.Simpson (Eds.) The European Sun East Linton 2001, pp.30-43.
2001 Island Rock Gongs, In: Scottish Islands Explorer Volume 2 Issue 2, Mar/Apr 2001, pp.7-8.
2002 Music of the North – Echoes of tunes once shared. In: J.M.Fladmark (Ed.) Heritage & Identity, Donhead, Dorset, pp.99-109.
2002 The Womb of Sound. In: E. Hickmann/I. Laufs/R. Eichmann (Hrsg.), Studien zur Musikarchäologie III. Orient-Archäeologie 10. Rahden 2002, pp.27-38.
2003 Songs of Strath. In: Comunn Eachdraidh Ealaghol agus na Torran, Newsletter 5. Autumn 2003, pp.3-8.
2003 Six illustrated essays on Music for www.theglasgowstory.com.
2004 The Portnacroish Rock Gong and Some of its Companions, In: Appin Historical Society Newsletter 2004.
2004 ‘Listening to Picts’. In: E. Hickmann/I. Laufs/R. Eichmann (Hrsg.), Studien zur Musikarchäologie IV Orient-Archäeologie 15, Rahden 2004.
2004 Reconstructing the River Erne Horn. In: Ulster Journal of Archaeology Vol 61 2002, pp.17-25.
2004 Thomas Wilson, The String Quartets. In: G. Hair (Ed.) The Music of Thomas Wilson, Glasgow 2002.
2004 ‘Hand Bells of the Celtic Church in Scotland’, In: Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Volume LXIII 2002-2004, Inverness 2006, pp.267-291.
2004 ‘Erik Chisholm and Piobaireachd’, In: Piping Today Issue Number 10, pp.46-49.
2005 ‘Night Song of the Bards’, In: McCulloch, M. (Ed.) Scottish Studies Review 6.1, Spring 2005, pp.43-58.
2005 “Wooden Artefact” In: Greig, M.K., “Excavations in the Laird’s Hall, Drum Castle, Aberdeenshire” In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland 134 (2004), pp.436-438.
2006 “Ogam and Interlace Notation, Fact or Fiction?”, In: E. Hickmann/I. Laufs/R. Eichmann (Hrsg.), Studien zur Musikarchäologie V, Orient-Archäeologie
Band 20, Rahden 2006, pp.305-318.
2006 “Scottish Flute Music of the Eighteenth century”, In: Flute Focus Issue 5, January 2006, Albany New Zealand, pp.6-8.
2006 Purser, J., “Number Symbolism and Gematria in the music of Carver, Clerk and Wallace” Musica Scotica: 800 years of Scottish Music, conference 29.4.06, St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh.
2006 Purser, J., “Sources for MacPherson’s ‘Night Song of the Bards’” paper given at Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2006, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, 20.7.06
2006 Purser, J., “Strings in Disguise” paper given at the Colloquium, The Violin in Scotland, St Cecilia’s Hall, 26.8.06.
2007 Purser, J., ‘Early Modern Music’, In: Harris, B., and MacDonald, A.R., (Eds.) Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c.1100-1707, Dundee 2007, pp.212-224.
2007 Purser, J., ‘Erik Chisholm’s ‘Hindustani’ Piano Concerto’, In: Proceedings of Musica Scotica Conference 28.4.2007 at Glasgow University.
2007 Purser, J., ‘Promise for the future in an ancient tradition’, In: West Highland Free Press, 10.8.07, p.17.
2007 Purser, J., ‘Chasing A Restless Muse – Part I’, In: British Music Society News, 116 - December 2007, pp.233-240.
2007 Purser, J., ‘The Celts In Sardinia: a Music Relationship’. In: Soi, A., Staffa, F. And 8Serra, R., (Eds.) 20 Years la nostra storia, Cagliari 2007, pp.98-99.
2007 Purser, J., Review of Prehistoric Music of Ireland, In: Historic Brass Society Journal, Vol.19 2007, pp.115-117.
2008 Purser, J., ‘Chasing A Restless Muse – Part II’, In: British Music Society News, 116 - March 2008, pp.278-286.
2008 Purser, J., ‘Gaelic Song, Music and Landscape, General or Particular?’ at Musica Scotica Conference: 800 years of Scottish Music, University of Glasgow 26.5.2008.
2009 Purser, J., “Scottish Strains”, Review In: Early Music, Vol.XXXVII/1, February 2009, pp.121-123.
2009 Purser, J., “A’ Tionndadh Ìomhaighean gu Fuaimean”, In: Cox, R. (Ed.) Dualchas agus an Àraineachd sin am fearann caoin, Slèite 2009, pp.129-134.
2009 Purser, J., “Crathes: Source of Heavenly Harmony”, In: Leopard, September 2009, pp.10-13.
2009 Purser, J., Review “Bagpipes: A National Collection of a National Instrument, by Hugh Cheape”, In: Review of Scottish Culture, No.21 2009, pp.156-157.
2010 Purser, J., “Charles O’Brien (1882-1968)”, In: British Music Society News 125, March 2010, pp.242-246.
2011 Purser, J., “Harlaw’s Music – Giving voice to the tragedy of battle”, In: Leopard Magazine, February 2011, pp.15-17.
2011 Purser, J., “Modernism and Music in Scotland Between the Wars”, In: Dymock and McCulloch (Eds.) Scottish & International Modernisms, Glasgow
2011, pp.171-183.
2012 Purser, J., "The Piano Music of Erik Chisholm 1904-1965", In: Jackson, C., (Ed.) International Piano, No.12 April/May 2012, p.
2012 Purser, J., "Ossianic Lay, by Erik Chisholm", In: Jackson, C., (Ed.) International Piano, No.12 April/May 2012, p.59.
2013 Purser, J., Review, “Karen McAulay, Our Ancient National Airs . . .”, In: Scottish Literary Review, Autumn/Winter 2013, pp.106-108.
2014 Purser, J., Review of William Lamb Puirt-a-Beul, In: Scottish Gaelic Studies 29.
2014 Purser, J., “The Significance of Music in the Gàidhealtachd in the Pre- and Early-Historic Period”, In: Blankenhorn, V., (Ed.), Scottish Gaelic Studies 37 - Craobh nan Ubhal A Festschrift for John MacInnes, Edinburgh 2014, pp.207-221.
2014 Purser, J., "The Music - Sir Patrick Spens as it is sung", In: Sir Patric Spens, The background of the ballad and the vision of the artist - Robert Burns, Limner, Dunfermline 2014, pp.70-77.
2014 one of the “Voices of Tradition” in Ritchie, F., and Orr, D., Wayfaring Strangers – the musical voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia, University of North Carolina 2014, pp.9, 33, 66-67, 156-157.
2015 Two chapters on “BBC Scotland” and “The Piping Centre and the College of Piping”, In: Molleson, K., (Ed.) Dear Green Sounds, Glasgow, pp.104-117.
2015 “Where the Simoon Blows”, In: Opera June 2015, pp.708-713.
2016 “Mac-Talla na Sàmhchaire – Echoes of Silence” In: Re-Soundings, Graphical House re-soundings.com.
2016 “How a dying father gave Scotland a musical great” In: The National, 3.6.2016, pp.26-27.
2016 “Shipowner’s son sets sail for musical majesty . . .” In: The National, 10.6.2016, pp.24-25.
2016 “A musical genius with the Borders in his blood”, In: The National, 17.6.2016, pp.26-27.
2016 “Frederic Lamond: A soaring talent that wretched poverty could not keep down” In: The National, 12.8.2016, pp..
2016 “Helen Hopekirk: Romantic, poetic and tinged with Gaelic folk music” In: The National, 18.8.2016, pp..
2016 “The pacifist who made music in the thick of war” In: The National, 28.10.2016, pp.26-27.
2016 “A tragic silence” In: The National, 4.11.2016, pp.26-27.
2016 “A genius & a hero” In: The National, 11.11.2016, pp.26-27.
2017 “A question of identity” In: The National, 14.4.2017, pp.20-21.
2017 “Do the math and see the light . . .” In: The National, 28.4.17, pp.20-21.
2017 “Burning Questions” In: The National, 12.5.17, pp.20-21.
2017 “Farewell to the Moon Goddess” In: The National, 26.5.17, pp.20-21.
2017 “Big love” In: The National, 2.6.17, pp.20-21.
2017 8 essays in Riach with Moffat and Purser, Arts and the Nation, Edinburgh 2017, pp104-142.
2018 Review of “Robert Burns in Song and Dance” by Sue Knight, in Early Dance Circle No.109, September 2018, p.11.
2019 “A Lyre Bridge of the Early Iron Age from High Pasture Cave, Scotland: 2. The Context: Environmental – Perceptual – Symbolic – Cultural, and its Implications”, In: Studien zur Musikarchäologie XI, Rahden 2019, pp.265-280.
2019 “Hey presto! How Munro and Mclean outsmarted the Italians” In: The National 28.10.19, pp.20-21
2019 “Bringing the Enlightened period to life with music”, In: The National 4.11.19, pp.30-31.
2019 “The Philosopher’s Opera”, In: The National 11.11.19, pp.20-21.
2019 “A champion of Scottish musical genius”, In: The National 18.11.2019, pp.20-21.
2019 “Remarkable Scot’s royal approval”, In: The National, 25.11.2019, pp.20-21.
2019 “A Reel Find”, In: The National, 2.12.2019, pp.20-21.
2019 “His Melodious Lordship . . . Fiddler Tam”, In: The National, 9.12.2019, pp.20-21.
2019 “Lord of the Dance, John Purser on Scots fiddler Niel Gow 1727-1807”, In: The National, 16.12.2019, pp.20-21.
2019 “The Scots who helped mould Mozart?”, In: The National 23.12.2019, pp.20-21.
2019 “Scottish friends in high places”, In: The National 30.12.2019, pp.36-37.
2020 “Away with the Fairies”, In: The National 2.3.2020, pp.20-21.
2020 “Beyond the Carnyx: Recent Developments in Scottish Music Archaeology”, In: Kolltveit and Rainio (eds), The Archaeology of Sound, Acoustics and Music: Studies in Honour of Cajsa S. Lund, Berlin 2020, pp.291-306.
2020 “A hard time for people of faith” (In search of Dugald Buchanan) In: West Highland Free Press, 3.4.20, p.16.2020 “The chequered history of Scotland’s tartans”, In: The National 24.4.2020, p.17.
2020 “Was it an Englishman who invented the kilt?” In: The National, 2.5.2020, p.18.
2020 “The Scot who inspired Beethoven and Schubert”, In: The National, 30.5.20, p.19.
2020 “The stories of the Fianna . . tales told in song”, In: The National, 6.6.20. p.19.
2020 “Why the work of James MacPherson was truly revolutionary”, In: The National, 13.6.20. p.18.
2020 “Memories of the quern dust calendar in a trip to Poland”, Tobar an Dualchais In: West Highland Free Press, 19.6.20.
2020 “Crisp as eggshells, or a strathspey”, In: The National, 13.7.2020, p.18.
2020 “All in a day's work”, In: The National, 20.7.2020, p.18.
2020 “James Oswald (1710-1769) and Highland music: Context and legacy”, In: Hearing Heritage, Selected essays on Scotland’s Music from Musica Scotica conferences, pp.39-54.
2020 A musical journey from earth to heaven. did we make it? Paper given to Lowland and Borders Piping Society Colloquium celebrating Declaration of Arbroath, 14.11.2020
2021 "Scott and MacCunn", presentation at 12th International Walter Scott Conference 6-8.7.21
2014 “The Music – Sir Patrick Spens as it is sung”, In: Sir Patric Spens, The background of the ballad and the vision of the artist – Robert Burns, Limner, Dunfermline 2014, pp.70-77.
Musicology - Entries in Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
1994 All music entries in Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland
2001 The New Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Drysdale; Glasgow; John Park; R.A.Smith.)
2004 New Dictionary of National Biography (Alexander Campbell; John Donaldson; David Kennedy; MacArthur, family of; MacCrimmon, family of; MacKay, family of; Roderick Morison; William Stenhouse; John Thomson; Thomas Wilson.)
2004 Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Glasgow)
2006 Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (Isobel Baillie; Lucy Broadwood; Joan Dickson; Isobel Dunlop; Anne Gilchrist; Isobel Grant; Helen Hopekirk; Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser; Meg of Abernethy; Robena Laidlaw; Frances Tolmie), Edinburgh 2006.
Other – local history, Gaelic visual arts, etcetera
1998 “Mere Shadow of a Fleeting Thought?” The Scotsman 13.3.1998, p.19.
2005 Paths of Our Ancestors, In: Farquhar, A. (Ed.) The Storr – unfolding landscape, Edinburgh 2005, pp.84-86.
2006 Saint Maelrubha, In: Comunn Eachdraidh Ealaghol agus na Torran Newsletter 7 (2005/6), pp.2-10.
2008 “A Portrait Sketch of the Portraitist”, In: Joie de Vivre! – The Art of Alexander Goudie, published by Paisley Art Gallery, September 2008.
2009 “The Celtic Ballet: Ballet, Baton and Brush in Search of Peace in Time of War”, In: Lindsay, L., (Ed.), Journal of the Scottish Society for Art
History, Volume 13 2008-2009, Dundee 2009, pp.7-15.
2009 “Review: Singing Songs of the Scottish heart: William McTaggart 1835-1910”, In: Lindsay, L., (Ed.), Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, Volume 13 2008-2009, Dundee 2009, pp.67-68.
2009 “Opinion – Take Your Art Home With You”, In: John Muir Trust Journal, 47 Autumn 09, p.30.
CD Liner Notes
Scotland’s Music double CD Linn CKD 008
The Kilmartin Sessions CD Kilmartin House Museum, Kilmartin, Argyllshire.
Sounds of the Ancient World I KPM 356 CD
Kinloche his Fantassie ASV Gaudeamus CD GAU 134
Leo Scotiae irritatus Cantatas by John Clerk of Penicuik Hyperion CDA 67007.
The Leda Trio – Airs for the Seasons – Scottish Music of the 1700s Springthyme SPRCD 1036.
Colin’s Kisses – The Music of James Oswald, Linn CKD 101
Camerata Scotland – Mendelssohn, Thomson NYOS 003
Alexander Mackenzie Hyperion CDA 66764
The Romantic Piano Concerto (9) Mackenzie/Tovey; Piano Concerti. Hyperion CDA 67023
MacCunn; Land of the Mountain and the Flood. Hyperion CDA 66815
Wallace, Symphonic Poems, Hyperion CDA 66848
Wallace, Creation Symphony, Hyperion CDA 66987
Cecil Coles – Music from Behind the Lines, Hyperion CDA 67293
Lamond Symphony in A major, Hyperion CDA 67387
Scottish String Quartets Meridian CDE 84445
Chris Norman; The Caledonian Flute Boxwood BOX-902
Bonnie Rideout; Scottish Inheritance Tulloch Music TM 501
Abby Newton; Castles, Kirks, and Caves Redwing Music RWMCD 5410
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 1 Dunelm Records DRD0222
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 2 Dunelm Records DRD0223
Fiddler Tam – the music of Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie Linn CKD 240
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 3 Dunelm Records DRD0224
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 4 Dunelm Records DRD0225
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 5 Divine Art Ltd ddv24140
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 6 Divine Art Ltd ddv24149
Erik Chisholm Music for Piano Volume 7 Divine Art Ltd ddv24155
Bonnie Rideout – Fiddle Piobaireachd Vol 1, Tulloch Music tm504, 2010
Bonnie Rideout – Harlaw, Scotland 1411, Tulloch Music tm505, 2011
Bonnie Rideout – Fiddle Piobaireachd Vol 2, Tulloch Music tm506, 2013
Charles O'Brien - (1882-1968), Toccata Classics TOCC0256
Chisholm: Songs - Delphian DCD34259