Partition , partie I, pour Scots Musical Museum, Folk Songs, Scottish

Scottish Folk Songs

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Obtenez la partition de musique pour Scots Musical Museum , partie I, chansons, de Folk Songs, Scottish. Cette partition classique célèbre écrite pour les instruments tels que: voix, continuo
Cette partition compte une sélection de mouvements: 6 Volumes et est classée dans les genres

• chansons
• chansons folkloriques
• Music histoire
• écrits
• pour voix, continuo
• pour voix avec continuo
• partitions pour voix
• partitions avec basso continuo
• pour voix, piano
• pour voix avec clavier
• partitions pour piano
• pour voix, clavecin
• partitions pour clavecin
• langue anglaise
• pour voix, piano (arr)

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Rédacteur: William Stenhouse (1773?-1827)
Edition: Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1853.
Libbretiste: various, including Robert Burns
Dédicace: The Catch Club Instituted at Edinburgh June 1771

Sujets

• Classique
• Basse continue
• Voix
• Folk music

Informations

• Publié par: FOLK_SONGS
• Nombre de lectures: 17
• Licence : Libre de droits
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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MUSICPOETRY ANDLYRIC
OF
SCOTLAND.
PART I.
I.
THE HIGHLAND QUEEN.
words and air of this song were composed by Mr Mac-The
ofthe man ofwar. It was originallyvicar, when purser Solbay
published as a half-sheet song, and Oswald afterwards in-
music in his Caledonian Pocket Companion, bookserted the
words in thexi, in 1750. The lateMr D. Herd inserted the
first volume of his Scottish Songs, in 1776. The Highland
former, was the produc-King, intended as a parody on the
oftion ofa young lady, the friend of Charles Wilson Edin-
first appeared in a collection of songs, edited l>yburgh. It
the Lady andthis Wilson, in 1779, entitled, St Cecilia, or
Gentleman's Harmonious Companion.
ii.
AN' THOU WERE MY AIN THING.
The late Mr Tytler ofWoodhouselee, in his Dissertation
on Scotish Music, was of opinion, that this beautiful air must
have been composed between the period of the Restoration
and the Union. Mr William Thomson, editor of the Or-
Caledonius, other supposed it to havepheus on the hand,
been a composition of David Rizzio. Both opinions, how-
ever, are equally fanciful, and unsupported by evidence.
of thisThat the air, and first verse, including the chorus,2 II.—AN THOU WERE MY AIN THIN6.
song are ancient, there can be no doubt, because, in 1725,
Thomson printed it as an ancient song ; but neitherthename
of its composer, of the tune, nor that of the poet who wrote
the original words which it is known.to adapted, are now
It is remarkable, that the old verse, beginning with, ¥ I
would clasp thee in my arms," is not to be found in Ram-
say's Tea Table Miscellany, although it appears in the Or-
pheus Caledonius. The four additional stanzas, beginning,
" Ofrace divine," are generally attributed to Ramsay, but
himselfannexes thehe letterX to the song, to denote that
the author was unknown.
in.
PEGGY, I MUST LOVE THEE.
"J. Stafford Smith, inMr his Musica Antiqua," vol.
iii. gives this beautiful air as the composition of thep. 183,
celebrated Henry Purcell, because John Playfordhad printed
"
it as such in his Musick's Handmaid," published at London
"in 1689. The old Irish air called, Lillibulero," is likewise
Smith as PurcelTs composition. But neither thegiven by
Scotch nor the Irish air were composed by Purcell, (al-
he might have put a bass to them for his old friendthough
nor have eitherPlayford) of them the smallest resemblance
to any of the other compositions of this truly eminent master.
air appears in a old manuscript musicbook,The Scottish very
now in the possession of the editor, written in square or lo-
"shaped notes, under the title of, Peggie, I must lovezenge
probability,thee," in all long before Purcell was born. Of
this ancient song nothing remains but the tune and the title,
the verses to which the air is adapted, both in the Or-for
pheus Caledonius, and in the Scots Musical Museum, were
the production of Allan Ramsay. His friend, Crawfurd,
"to Beneathlikewise wrote a song the same air, beginning,
a beech's grateful shade," inserted in Mr George Thomson's
Scots songs, iii. where it is beauti-collection of vol. p. 124,
fully harmonized and arranged as a duet for two voices, by
the celebrated Dr Haydn. Itmay alsobe noticed enpassant,HI.—-PEGGY, I MUST EOVfi THEE. 3
adapted Englishthat Henry Playford an song to the same
"Scottish air, beginning, Tom and Will were shepherd
"which was printed in his first volume ofswains," Wit and
Mirth," printed at London in 1698.
LILLIBURLERO andBULLEN-A-LAH were the pass
words used by the Irish papists in their massacre of the Pro-
testants in 1641. The song of Lilliburlero was written in
1686,on the king's nominating General Talbot, a furious pa-
pist, (newly created Earl of Tyrconnel) to the lieutenancy of
Ireland. This song contributed not a little towards the great
revolution in 1688. It is inserted in Percy's Reliques ofAn-
cient English Poetry, vol. ii. p. 365.
IV.
BESS, THE GAWKIE.
This song is the production of the late Rev. James Muir-
head, minister of the parish of Urr, in the province of Gallo-
"way. Burnsjustly remarks, that it is a beautifulsong; and
genuine We havein the Scots taste. Jew pastoral composi-
—tions, Imean thepastoral nature, that are equal to this?of
See his Reliques by Cromek. This song appears in Herd's
collection in 1776.
v.
LORD GREGORY.
is very ancient Gallowegian melody. twoThis a The
verses adapted to the air in this collection, were compiled
"fine old ballad, entitled, The Lass of Lochroyan,"from the
which was first published in a perfect state by Sir Walter
Scott in his Minstrelsy of the Border, vol, ii. 41 1 . Burnsp.
"remarks, that it is somewhat singular, that in Lanark,
Renfrew, Ayr, Wigton, Kirkcudbright, and Dumfries-shires,
the title,there is scarcely an old song or tune, which, from
&c- can be guessed to belong to, or be the production of
counties. This, I conjecture, is one of these very few,these
which traditionas the ballad, is a long one, is called, both by
iand in printed collections, The Lass o' Lochroyan," which
I take to be Lochroyan, in Galloway."—Reliques, p. 196.VI.
THE BANKS OF TWEED.
" is one of the many attempts thatBurns says, this song
made to imitate the ScottishEnglish composers havethe
toshall, in these strictures, beg leavemanner, and which I
appellation of Anglo Scottish productions.distinguish by the
verses are just above con-is pretty good, but theThe music
11— Reliques.tempt. See Burns's
between this melody andIfany resemblance can be traced
veryScotland, it does not, at all events, appear to bethose of
what genuine Scottish air has there everstriking. For to
English composer,been a regular recitative prefixed ? The
Hook, certainly never meant it should pass for a ScottishMr
would not have displayed his name onproduction, else he
very popular duringthe original title-page. This song was
Tenducci's residence in Scotland, and Johnson, at theMr
subscribers, was induced to give itanrequest of several of his
the first volumeearly place in his work. The greater part of
was engraved before Burns and Johnson be-of the Museum
came acquainted.
VII.
BEDS OF SWEET ROSES.THE
to the editor byThis Border melody was communicated
Stephen Clarke. Burns mentions, that when he was aMr
song in Ayrshire, and he hasheardboy it was a very popular
their nonsensicalthose fanatics, the Buchanites, sing some of
which they dignified with the name of hymns, torhymes,
visionaries were so denominatedthis air, These itinerant
wife thetheir leader, Elizabeth Buchan, the of one offrom
Delft manufactory at Glasgow, by whomproprietors of the
she began tohad several children. About 1779 pro-she
that the day ofjudgment was at hand, and that allphecy,
abandon their worldly aifairs, and be inChristians ought to
numberreadiness to meet Christ. She soon gathered a of
proselytes, and journeyed with them through several parts of
the Buchanites resided in aScotland. Whilst in Nithsdale
barn, where the women span flax during the day, and re-— s
VII.—THE BEDS OF SWEET ROSES. 5
ceived their male visitors at night. The prophetess had as-
she was to be translated alive into heaven butserted, that ;
infatuated disciples,she died in 1791, and her after hiding
body in a peat-moss, gradually dispersed. In Black-her
vol. vi. there is a very interestingwood's Magazine, p. 663,
account of these singular enthusiasts.
VIII.
ROSLIN CASTLE.
" These beautiful verses (says Burns) were the produc-
of Richard Hewit, young man that Dr Blacklock (totion a
whom I am indebted for the anecdote) kept for some years as
an amanuensis. I do not know who is the author of the se-
Tytler, incond song to the same tune. his amusing History
of Scottish Music, gives the air to Oswald ; but in Oswald's
of Scots Tunes, wherein he affixes anown Collection asterisk
he doesto those he himself composed, not make the least
claim to the tune."
have only to add, that Oswald was not the composerWe
of the air of Roslyn Castle. The same tune, note for note,
appears in a prior publication, namely M'Gibbon's Collection
"of Scots Tunes, under the title of the House of Glams.*"
The old words which had been adapted to this air, however,
are now lost. The words of both the songs to this air ap-
peared in Herd's Collection, printed in and afterwards1776,
in the collection entitled, St Cecilia, at Edinburgh, in 1779.
IX.
SAW YE JOHNIE COMIN'.
." This song, for genuinehumour, and lively originality in
1
'the air, is unparalleled. I take it to be very old. Burns'
Reliques.
This observation had been hastily made, for the air, either
when played or sung slowly, as it ought to be, is exceedingly
pathetic, not lively. Burns afterwards became sensible of
this; for, in one of his letters to Thomson, inserted in Currie's
" youedition of his works, he says, I enclose Fraser s set of
this tune when he plays it slow, in fact he makes it the lan-;
guage of despair. Were it possible, in singing,