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Songs from David Herd's manuscripts

by: Herd, David, 1732-1810; Hecht, Hans, 1876-1945

Publication date: 1904

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland

Topics: Paton, George, 1721-1807, Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, Cape Club (Edinburgh, Scotland), Songs, Scots

Publisher: Edinburgh : W.J. Hay

Collection: nlsmusic; nationallibraryofscotland; europeanlibraries

Contributor: National Library of Scotland

Language: English

Without music. The editor's notes include references to tunes

"The footnotes, chiefly illustrating Burns's arrangements of the texts for Johnson's Musical Museum, may be of interest ... particularly as they claim for Burns verses which have not yet been assigned to him."--Preface, p. xi

Includes bibliographical notes (p. 65-76) and indexes

Introduction includes: I. George Paton. II. Extracts from Paton's correspondence with Thomas Percy referring to David Herd's collection. III. David Herd's life and personality (David Herd and the Cape Club, Fergusson and the Cape Club, Burns in Edinburgh, Herd and Scott, etc.) IV. Bibliographical notes V. Description of David Herd's mss. (p. 76-88)

Rights: National Library of Scotland holds full rights in this digital resource and agrees to license the resource under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland