Tour Scotland Video Corrente Corelli Violin Music St Ninian's Cathedral Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a young Scottish female violinist playing Corrente Corelli violin music in St Ninian's Cathedral on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Arcangelo Corelli, born 17 February 1653, died 8 January 1713, was an Italian violinist and composer of the Baroque era. His music was key in the development of the modern genres of sonata and concerto, in establishing the preeminence of the violin, and as the first coalescing of modern tonality and functional harmony. According to the poet Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, who presumably knew the composer well, Corelli initially studied music under a priest in the nearby town of Faenza, and then in Lugo, before moving in 1666 to Bologna.

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Old Photograph Dunans Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Dunans Castle in Glendaruel on the Cowal Peninsula, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish castle was for over two centuries the home of the Fletcher Clan who moved to the site between 1715 and 1745 carrying with them the door of their previous home at Achallader Castle. The building passed out of Fletcher hands in 1997 when the entire 3000 acre Dunans estate was sold off by Colonel Archibald Fletcher's heirs and subsequently split up. castle was gutted by fire on 14 January 2001 while being run as a hotel and the building was left as a ruin.



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Old Photograph Combination Hospital Lochmaben Scotland

Old photograph of the Combination Hospital in Lochmaben located four miles West of in Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Combination Hospital was also known as the Sanatorium. The photo shows the main building and the Fever Wards.



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Old Photograph Ballimore House Scotland

Old photograph of Ballimore House near Loch Fyne in Argyll, Scotland. A mid 19th century Scottish baronial mansion house with landscaped gardens laid out by Thomas Mawson in 1910. Thomas Hayton Mawson, born 5 May 1861, died 14 November 1933, known as T. H. Mawson, was a British garden designer, landscape architect, and town planner. Mawson was born in Nether Wyresdale, Lancashire, England, and left school at age 12. His father, who died in 1877, was a warper in a cotton mill and later started a building business. He married Anna Prentice in 1884 and the Mawsons made their family home in Windermere, Westmorland in 1885. Mawson designed gardens in various parts of Britain, and in Europe and Canada.



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Old Photograph Field Gun Practice Barry Buddon Scotland

Old photograph of Field Gun practice at Barry Buddon by Carnoustie, Scotland. Barry Buddon Training Area is a Ministry of Defence owned rifle ranges and training area. It dates back to around 1850 when the area was used by the Forfarshire Rifle Volunteers, the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry the Panmure Battery of the Forfarshire Artillery Brigade, and a Royal Naval Reserve Battery. In 1897 the Earl of Dalhousie sold the site to the War Office for use as a military training area. The ranges were also used in the 1986 Commonwealth Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.



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