Publications by Dr Jamie Reid-Baxter
(Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Scottish History, University of Glasgow)
1.Articles and essays
‘The Apocalyptic Muse of Francis Hamilton of Silvertonhill (c.1585-1645)’ in Journal of the Northern Renaissance, no.4 (February 2013)
‘James Anderson and His Poem The Winter Night’ in LuukHouwen (ed.)Literature and Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland: Essays in Honour of Alasdair A. MacDonald (Leuven: Peeters, 2012), pp.145-165
(with Sarah Ross) ‘Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross’ entry in the Blackwells Encyclopaedia of English Renaissance Literature(2011)
‘Drama out of the “Closet”: Buchanan on Stage’ in P J Ford and R Green (eds.)George Buchanan, Poet and Dramatist (Classical Press of Wales, December 2009) pp.237-252
Review of Beth Quitslund, The Reformation in Rhyme: Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547-1603(2008), in Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, November 2009, pp.80-82
‘Liminary Verse: the paratextual poetry of Renaissance Scotland’, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, no.3, 2008,(November 2008) pp.70-94
‘Mr Andro Boyd (1565-1636): a Neo-Stoic Bishop of Argyll and his writings’, in J Goodare and A A MacDonald (eds.) SixteenthCentury Scotland: Essays in honour of Michael Lynch,(Brill, Leiden, September 2008), pp.395-425
‘Metrical Psalmody and the Bannatyne Manuscript: Robert Pont’s Psalm 83’, in Renaissance and Reformation/ Renaissance etRéforme, (Toronto University Press), 30.4. 2006/2007, Fall/Automne, pp.41-62
“John Durkan 1914-2006: In memoriam”, in RSCHS (Records of the Scottish Church History Society) vol. xxxvii (2007), p.1
“Elizabeth Melville’s letters in Edinburgh University Library, Laing III.347” in Notes and Queries, (OUP), December 2006, pp.525-28
“Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (c.1570-1640)” entry in The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (EUP, April 2006)
"The Choral Music" and "Stevenson and Scotland", in C Scott-Sutherland (ed.)Ronald Stevenson: the Man and His Music (Toccata Press: London) October 2005, pp.191-204 and 265-76
"Judge and Revenge My Cause: the Regent Morton, AndroBlackhall, Robert Sempill and the fall of the House of Hamilton in 1579”, in Sally Mapstone (ed.)Older Scots Literature, (Birlinn: Edinburgh) September2005, pp.467-92
"Speaking to the Living", in Paul H Scott (ed.)Spirits of the Age: thirty modern Scottish self portraits, (Saltire Society: Edinburgh), August 2005, pp.299-320
"The Nyne Muses, an unknown Renaissance sonnet sequence: John Dykes and the Gowrie Conspiracy of 1600" in K Dekker and A A MacDonald (eds.) Royalty, Rhetoric and Reality(Peeters: Leuven),July 2005, pp. 197-218
"The Songs of Lady Culross" in G M Hair, M MacKay and G J Munro (eds.)NotisMusycall: Essays on Music and Scottish Culture presented to Kenneth Elliott at 75, (MusicaScotica Trust: Glasgow) May2005,pp.143-63
"Presbytery, politics and poetry: Maister Robert Bruce, John Burel and Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross", in RSCHS (Records of the Scottish Church History Society) vol. xxxiv (2004), pp.6-27
‘John Burel’, entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(September, 2004)
"Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: 3500 new lines of verse" in S Dunnigan et al (eds.)Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing (Palgrave:New York and London) 2004, pp.195-200
"Twenty Years A-Growing. Cappella Nova: A Profile"ScottishStudies Review 3/2, Autumn 2002 pp.81-85
"Philotus: the transmission of a delectable treatise", in T van Heijnsbergen and N Royan (eds.)Literature, Letters and the Canonical in Early Modern Scotland, (Tuckwell Press: East Linton) 2002. pp. 52-68
"Ecclesiastical Music", "Mediaeval and Renaissance Music" and "Music in the Enlightenment" in Michael Lynch (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (OUP: 2001)
"Poetry, passion and politics in the circle of James VI: John Burel and his surviving works", in L Houwen, A A MacDonald and S Mapstone (eds.)A Palace in the Wild, (Peeters: Leuven) 2000, pp.199-248
"Rich and rollicking or flat and unfocussed: Barnaby Riche'sPhylotus contrasted with the Scottish Philotus", in N. McMillan and K. Stirling (eds.) Odd Alliances: Scottish Studies in European Contexts(Cruithne Press: Glasgow) 1999, pp.11-24
"Ronald Stevenson and the Choral Voice", in Chapman 89-90, May 1998, pp.40-45
"Christopher Goodman, Thomas Wode and the Curious Death of Scottish Music", in Scotlands 4.2 (EUP: 1997) pp.1-20
"William Sweeney and the Voice of the People" Tempo, 188 (March 1997) pp.26-30
Foreword (and many footnotes) to James Ross: MusickFyne: Robert Carver and the Art of Musick in Sixteenth Century Scotland (Mercat Press: Edinburgh) 1993
"A Patron of the Arts", in Lord Provost George Drummond 1687-1766, published by Scotland's Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh University, for the Bank of Scotland, 1987, pp.34-35
“The Coronach, the Reel and the Sea-grey Granite: the music of Ronald Center (1913-1973), in Cencrastus,no.5, Summer 1981, pp.34-35
2. Books
(with E Patricia Dennison and Michael Lynch) Jhone Angus, Monk of Dunfermline, and the Music of the Scottish Reformation (Dunfermline Heritage Community Projects, Dunfermline, August 2011), with a CD of all Angus’ fourteen surviving compositions, sung by Sang Scule
Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: Poems from Manuscript, with AneGodlieDreame (Solsequium, Edinburgh; 1st, limited edition April 2010; 2nd, rev.edition July 2010)
3. Booklets
Three Scottish Poets at Padua: Arthur Johnston, George Sibbald, John Dunbar, parallel text in Latin and English of epigrams and DaphnaeumDoctorale, limited edition for the delegates to the 13th International Triennial Mediaeval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature Conference, Padova, 2011
George Buchanan (1506-82) Scotland’s Renaissance Man,text of public lecture given in Stirling on 27th October 2006,with reproductions of the ten lino-cuts commissioned for the QuincentenaryExhbition,(Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery Publications: Stirling) December 2006
Philotus, edited textwith stage directions, commentary and postgraduate teaching unit:Dept of Scottish Literature, Glasgow University, 1996
3.1. CD booklets
Texts and translations of the Office of St Brigid of Kildare, published in the CD booklet of “Flame of Ireland: an early mediaeval office of St Brigid”, on Gaudeamus,January 2005 CDGAU 354
Notes and texts, “Thus spak Apollo myne”: the Songs of Alexander Montgomerie,onGaudeamus 2002 CD GAU 249(researched, devised and produced by JRB)
Notes and texts, Psalms for the Regents of Scotland,Scottish Kirk music 1567-1578,Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers, 2000,EURS 003 (researched and devised by JRB)
The Passioun of SanctAndraa, ane kirk opera (1992), libretto (music by D Bullock) SainSCD2015
4. Online publications
‘The Apocalyptic Muse of Francis Hamilton of Silvertonhill (c.1585-1645)’ in Journal of the Northern Renaissance, no.4 (February 2013)
John Leech of Montrose, ‘HeliotropiumMontgomerii’andThomas Duff, ‘De solsequio, ad Jesumortum in praesepio’[edition and translation of versions in Ovidian elegiac couplets of Alexander Montgomerie’s love-song ‘The Solsequium’]
Andrew Boyd, Bishop of Argyll, Carmina, edited by Dana F. Sutton and Jamie Reid Baxter,
John Dunbar, EpigrammatonIoannisDunbariMegalo-BritanniCenturiaeSex, Decades Totidem (1616), edited by Jamie Reid Baxter and Dana F.Sutton[660 epigrams by the Galloway poet and future medical doctor, many of them addressed to Presbyterian Scots, French Huguenots and pro-puritan Englishmen]
Adam King ‘Ad IacobumSextum...diuinitusseruatum, Soteria’ (1601), [edition and translation of the post-Gowrie Conspiracy poem of thanksgiving by the ‘kirk papist’ judge of the Edinburgh Commissary Court (published Edinburgh, 1601)]
Thomas Craig, Two Elegies for James Stewart, Earl of Moray (1570)
[text and translation and edition of two hitherto unknown MS poems by the distinguished jurist, on the murdered Regent Moray]
Alexander Yule, DescriptioHorrendiParricidii (1606) (with Dana Sutton), [text and translation and edition of a hitherto unknown Scottish poem about the Gunpowder Plot by the Stirling headmaster]
George Buchanan (1506-82) Scotland's Voice in France, Landsdowne Lecture to the Franco-Scottish Society, given 25 November 2006, available at
5. Other
Poems set to music by R Stevenson, D Bullock, F Fiorini and P Davidson
Poems published in books (The New Makars) and journals (Tempo, Abril, Chapman, Tocher, Lallans, KillearnCourrier).
Concert and book reviews in Tempo 1987-97
Many theatre and concert reviews in Luxembourg News (weekly newspaper) 1987-95; theatre and concert pre- and reviews in Gaudie, Aberdeen University, 1974-83
Translations of Buchanan’s Valentiniana and of numerous singing texts printed in programme notes for Cappella Nova, Sang Scule and the Dunedin Consort.
Concert programme notes since 1976, most recently
- Music from Renaissance Scotland and Italy, for the Ensemble San Felice, Palazzo Moroni, Padova 23 July 2011;
- Sangs of the ScottisReformatioun(Dunfermline Abbey 21 November, St Salvadors Dundee 16 May, Culross Abbey 17th April 2010);
- Voices of Scotland: ancient and modern choral settings of Scottish texts from 597 to 1580for Cappella Nova in St Giles Cathedral, July 2008;
- Ronald Stevenson’s Passacaglia on DSCH for Murray Welsh, St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, March 2008;
- Psalms for Jamie Saxt(October 2006) for Cappella Nova;
- Sing a New Song, settings of Buchanan’s Latin Psalms (July 2006) for Sang Scule in St Andrews and Glasgow University Chapels;
- Pilgrim King: James IV and the Saints of Scotland (August 2004) for the Dunedin Consort;
- Death of a Hero King: Robert the Bruce(January 2003) for the Dunedin Consort.
[I also selected the music and texts of, devised the programmes for and narrated most of these events, except Stevenson’s Passacaglia and ‘Psalms for Jamie Saxt’]
Articles forthcoming
‘Elizabeth Melville, Calvinism and the Lyric Voice’, in D J Parkinson (ed.)Tides of Change: Scottish Literature under James VI and I(Peeters: Leuven, 2013), pp.151-171
‘Montgomerie’sSolsequium and The MindesMelodie’ in J D McLure and J H Williams (eds.)FrescheFontanis: Proceedings of the 13th Triennial Conference on Mediaeval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature(Cambridge Scholars Press: Cambridge, 2013), pp.363-77
‘Scotland shall be the ending of all Empires: Mr Thomas Murray (1564-1623) and King James VI’, in S Boardman and J Goodare (eds.) Kings, Lords and Men in Scotland and Britain: Essays in Honour of Jenny Wormald(Edinburgh University Press: expected publication 2013)
‘Andrew Melville and the Gunpowder Plot, 1605-1609’, in R A Mason and S J Reid, (eds.)Andrew Melville, Humanist and Reformer (Ashgate: Farnham, 2013)
‘Robert Carver and Sacred Music in Sixteenth-Century Scotland’, in Greta-Mary Hair(ed.)Proceedings of the Symposium on Sacred Music in Scotland, Pluscarden Abbey, September 2009 (Musica Scotica Trust: Glasgow, 2013)
Articles in preparation
‘Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: a Presbyterian Mother and her Children”, in E Ewan and J Nugent (eds.)Children and Youth in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland(Boydell and Brewer; expected publication 2014)
‘James IV, St Michael and the Armed Man’, in K.Buchanan and L.H.Clarke (eds.)Representations of Authority in Early Modern Scotland and her Near Neighbours (expected publication 2015)
Electronic publications in preparation (all for the Philological Museum)
(with Dana Sutton) Michael Wallace Complete Poems, [edition and translation of all extant printed and MS poetry by the Glasgow philosophy lecturer and minister of Kilmarnock (d.1641), including his Gunpowder Plot epyllion (London, 1606), his verse paraphrase of the Song of Solomon, and his panegyrics to James VI and I (1617) and to Charles I (1633)]
James Melville, Paraphrase of the Song of Solomon (1606) from Adv. MS. 19.2.7, National Library of Scotland, a critical edition
William Hegate Gallia Victrix (Poitiers, 1598)[edition and translation of the five act verse play celebrating the Edict of Nantes by the Glaswegian philosophy lecturer at Poitiers]
Thomas Murray, Lamentationum Ieremiae Paraphrasis Poetica(c.1595) [edition and translation of a MS poem, with much liminary verse by the author including a paraphrase of Ps.1, dedicated to James VI by the future tutor of Prince Charles]
Andrew Aidie of Aberdeen, Ten Eclogues (Danzig 1610) edition and translation
Books in preparation
The Poems of John Burel (c.1567-1603)critical edition for the Scottish Text Society, Edinburgh
Elizabeth Melville (c.1570-1640): Complete Poems and Letters, critical edition
MaisterRobert Bruce: Twenty NineSermons on Hebrews XI, 1590-91, critical edition for the Scottish History Society, 2 vols.
Three post-1603 Jacobean Religious Propaganda Pieces, critical edition of the anonymous works The Mindes Melodie of 1605, Ane Dialogue of 1619, and Jok up a Landis Newes and Dreame (before 1620).
Bishop Andrew Boyd: Complete Writings, critical edition
Francis Hamilton of Silvertonhill (1585-1645): Complete Writings, critical edition