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A select collection of original Scottish airs for the voice : with introductory and concluding symphonies & accompaniments for the piano forte, violin & violoncello : with select and characteristic verses both Scottish and English adapted to the airs, including upwards of one hundred new songs by Burns

by: Pleyel, Ignaz, 1757-1831; Burns, Robert, 1759-1796; Kozeluch, Leopold, 1747-1818. Songs. Selections

Publication date: 1801

Topics: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, Songs with piano, Songs with instrumental ensemble, Songs, Scots, Songs, English, Ballads, Scots

Publisher: Edinburgh : G. Thomson

Collection: whitbymusic; universitywesterno; ontario_council_university_libraries; toronto

Contributor: University of Western Ontario

Language: English

Songs for 1 or 2 voices with piano, violin and cello

First stanza set to music, also printed separately as text with additional stanzas

" 'I do hereby certify, that all the songs of my writing, published, and to be published, by Mr. George Thomson of Edinburgh, are so published by my authority' "--Advertisement on t.p. versos of v.I and v.II

Includes individual title pages for each volume

Lacks accompaniment for violin and cello

Handwritten signature in ink on title pages of v.I and v.II by G. Thomson

Includes preface notes and index to the songs in each volume

Condition: very good with moderate soiling

Vol. I. Fifty Scottish songs, with symphonies & accompaniments / the first twenty-five by Pleyel, the other twenty-five by Kozeluch. -- Vol. II. Fifty Scottish songs, with symphonies & accompaniments / by Kozeluch ; excepting nos. 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86 & 92 which are by Pleyel

Dr. James and Dr. Margaret Whitby donation