Dr Tim Duguid
- Senior Lecturer (Information Studies)
telephone:
01413302095
email:
Tim.Duguid@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745Biography
Timothy is a Senior Lecturer in Information Studies and Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow, specialising in digital musicology, historical musicology, and cultural information curation. His work explores how historical media, digital environments, and community practices intersect to shape the preservation and living transmission of cultural heritage.
His historical research focuses on British sacred music and print culture, with a particular emphasis on 16th- and 17th-century metrical psalmody across Scotland and England. His more recent scholarship is re-evaluating the split-leaf or "Dutch Door" psalters still used today, framing them not merely as physical artefacts, but as adaptive, user-driven technologies of devotion that enable dynamic, real-time pairings of texts and tunes. Taken together, his psalmody research has reshaped understandings of Reformation-era worship, demonstrating how printed liturgical tools continue to function as flexible, participatory mechanisms in both church and educational settings.
Parallel to his historical work, Timothy has spent over a decade developing digital research frameworks and technical standards for music scholarship. As Project Director for Music Scholarship Online (MuSO), he led interdisciplinary efforts to establish interoperable, peer-reviewed digital research environments, advancing field standards for musicological metadata, discovery platforms, and digital pedagogy.
Timothy's most recent project unites his historical and technological trajectories through the Digital Splitleaf project. Partnering with four major Scottish faith traditions, this project builds community-driven digital infrastructure, open encoding workflows (using MEI and Verovio), and public-facing participatory tools to preserve endangered living liturgies and foster international networks for sacred music.
Research interests
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Digital Cultural Heritage & Crowdsourcing: Designing participatory, open-source platforms that empower community curators to digitise, encode, and preserve living musical traditions.
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Music Information Retrieval & Standards: Advancing Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) frameworks, interactive browser-based score rendering (Verovio), and dynamic, multi-layered digital edition architectures.
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Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) & Ecumenical Networks: Safeguarding endangered participatory singing practices across denominational and regional boundaries through collaborative digital tools.
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Historical Musicology & Devotional Print Culture: Investigating early modern Scottish and English metrical psalmody, split-leaf psalter mechanics, and the historical transmission of sacred music.
Research groups
- Early Modern History
- Medieval & Early Modern
- History of Christianity
Publications
2024
Duguid, Timothy 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2024)
Transforming Norton: Thomas Norton and the impact of Geneva.
Reformation and Renaissance Review, 26(3),
pp. 164-189.
(doi: 10.1080/14622459.2025.2464985)
Duguid, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2024)
Minstrels of maelstroms: Mary's musical afterlives.
In: Reid, Steven J. (ed.)
The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Edinburgh University Press.
ISBN 9781399523530
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2024)
Polish Digital Scores; Konik, Marcin, Craig Sapp, Jacek Iwaszko, Marcelina Chojecka, and Emilia Ziętek, creators. Review of Polish Digital Scores Project.
Renaissance and Reformation, 47(1),
pp. 176-183.
(doi: 10.33137/rr.v47i1.43448)
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2024)
Special issue / Numéro special: Digital Research and Early Modern Music. Introduction: Introduction: Digital Research and Early Modern Music.
Renaissance and Reformation, 47(1),
pp. 169-172.
(doi: 10.33137/rr.v47i1.43446)
2023
Duguid, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2023)
Metrical psalmody and religious education in early modern Scotland.
In: Kim, Hyun-Ah (ed.)
Music and Religious Education in Early Modern Europe.
Brill, pp. 225-254.
ISBN 9789004470392
(doi: 10.1163/9789004470392_011)
2021
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2021)
Before and after: reforming Scottish liturgical music.
In: Hazlett, Ian (ed.)
A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638: Frameworks of Change and Development.
Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition (100).
Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 286-312.
ISBN 9789004329720
(doi: 10.1163/9789004335950_013)
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2021)
Early modern Scottish metrical psalmody: origins and practice.
Yale Journal of Music and Religion, 7(1),
1.
(doi: 10.17132/2377-231x.1150)
McCue, Kirsteen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9156-4538 and Duguid, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2021)
Singing about Mary: the story of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda.
[Website]
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2021)
Behind the times? Digital research methods and the music classroom.
Notes, 77(4),
pp. 519-538.
(doi: 10.1353/not.2021.0037)
2020
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2020)
The Forgotten Classroom? Bringing Music Encoding to a New Generation.
In: Music Encoding Conference 2020, 26-29 May 2020,
(doi: 10.17613/fbqn-s474)
2019
Duguid, Timothy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745, Feustle, Maristella, Giannetti, Francesca and Grumbach, Elizabeth
(2019)
Music Scholarship Online (MuSO): a research environment for a more democratic digital musicology.
Digital Humanities Quarterly, 13(1),
(doi: 10.63744/qr6qrjyv83yu)
2016
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2016)
MuSO: Aggregation and Peer Review in Music.
Working Paper.
Texas A&M University.
2014
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2014)
Revolutionaries needed: peer review in early music digital scholarship and editions.
Early Music, 42(4),
pp. 619-622.
(doi: 10.1093/em/cau095)
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2014)
Metrical Psalmody in Print and Practice: English 'Singing Psalms' and Scottish 'Psalm Buiks', c.1547-1640.
Series: St Andrews studies in reformation history.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781409468929
2013
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2013)
Early Modern British Metrical Psalmody (1535-1700).
In:
Oxford Bibliographies [online].
Oxford University Press.
(doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199757824-0103)
2012
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2012)
The ‘Troubles’ at Frankfurt: a new chronology.
Reformation and Renaissance Review, 14(3),
pp. 243-268.
(doi: 10.1179/1462245913Z.00000000017)
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2012)
English and Scottish Metrical Psalters.
Catalogue.
University of Edinburgh.
(doi: 10.13140/rg.2.1.1319.0247).
Articles
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2024)
Transforming Norton: Thomas Norton and the impact of Geneva.
Reformation and Renaissance Review, 26(3),
pp. 164-189.
(doi: 10.1080/14622459.2025.2464985)
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2024)
Polish Digital Scores; Konik, Marcin, Craig Sapp, Jacek Iwaszko, Marcelina Chojecka, and Emilia Ziętek, creators. Review of Polish Digital Scores Project.
Renaissance and Reformation, 47(1),
pp. 176-183.
(doi: 10.33137/rr.v47i1.43448)
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2024)
Special issue / Numéro special: Digital Research and Early Modern Music. Introduction: Introduction: Digital Research and Early Modern Music.
Renaissance and Reformation, 47(1),
pp. 169-172.
(doi: 10.33137/rr.v47i1.43446)
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2021)
Early modern Scottish metrical psalmody: origins and practice.
Yale Journal of Music and Religion, 7(1),
1.
(doi: 10.17132/2377-231x.1150)
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2021)
Behind the times? Digital research methods and the music classroom.
Notes, 77(4),
pp. 519-538.
(doi: 10.1353/not.2021.0037)
Duguid, Timothy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745, Feustle, Maristella, Giannetti, Francesca and Grumbach, Elizabeth
(2019)
Music Scholarship Online (MuSO): a research environment for a more democratic digital musicology.
Digital Humanities Quarterly, 13(1),
(doi: 10.63744/qr6qrjyv83yu)
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2014)
Revolutionaries needed: peer review in early music digital scholarship and editions.
Early Music, 42(4),
pp. 619-622.
(doi: 10.1093/em/cau095)
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2012)
The ‘Troubles’ at Frankfurt: a new chronology.
Reformation and Renaissance Review, 14(3),
pp. 243-268.
(doi: 10.1179/1462245913Z.00000000017)
Books
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2014)
Metrical Psalmody in Print and Practice: English 'Singing Psalms' and Scottish 'Psalm Buiks', c.1547-1640.
Series: St Andrews studies in reformation history.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781409468929
Book Sections
Duguid, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2024)
Minstrels of maelstroms: Mary's musical afterlives.
In: Reid, Steven J. (ed.)
The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Edinburgh University Press.
ISBN 9781399523530
Duguid, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2023)
Metrical psalmody and religious education in early modern Scotland.
In: Kim, Hyun-Ah (ed.)
Music and Religious Education in Early Modern Europe.
Brill, pp. 225-254.
ISBN 9789004470392
(doi: 10.1163/9789004470392_011)
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2021)
Before and after: reforming Scottish liturgical music.
In: Hazlett, Ian (ed.)
A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638: Frameworks of Change and Development.
Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition (100).
Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 286-312.
ISBN 9789004329720
(doi: 10.1163/9789004335950_013)
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2013)
Early Modern British Metrical Psalmody (1535-1700).
In:
Oxford Bibliographies [online].
Oxford University Press.
(doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199757824-0103)
Research Reports or Papers
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2016)
MuSO: Aggregation and Peer Review in Music.
Working Paper.
Texas A&M University.
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2012)
English and Scottish Metrical Psalters.
Catalogue.
University of Edinburgh.
(doi: 10.13140/rg.2.1.1319.0247).
Conference Proceedings
Duguid, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2020)
The Forgotten Classroom? Bringing Music Encoding to a New Generation.
In: Music Encoding Conference 2020, 26-29 May 2020,
(doi: 10.17613/fbqn-s474)
Key Findings
Duguid, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
United States Music Schools Survey 2019.
[Key Findings]
Website
McCue, Kirsteen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9156-4538 and Duguid, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-5745
(2021)
Singing about Mary: the story of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda.
[Website]
Grants
2026 Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fund, “Digital Splitleaf: A Platform Preserving and Promoting Scottish Liturgical Music,” University of Glasgow.
2017 Research Grant, “Interdisciplinary Metadata Frameworks: The MuSO Project," Europeana Research.
2015 Digital Humanities Startup Grant, "MuSO: Aggregation and Peer Review in Music," National Endowment for the Humanities (USA).
Supervision
Tim is happy to consider PhD supervision in the areas of early modern British music and culture, music and religion, digital musicology, digital music editing, and digital curation.
- Choung, Sung Hoon
Paths after Geneva: A Comparative Study of Presbyterian Ecclesiology in Andrew Melville and Thomas Cartwright
