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Scottish music (1500–1899)

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Births

  • Robert Carver (composer) (c. 1485 – c. 1570)
  • Lady Nairn (1766–1845)
  • James Scott Skinner (1843–1927)
  • John Strachan (singer) (1875–1958)
  • Jimmy MacBeath (1894–1974)
  • Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (1732–81)
  • Collections of songs or music

  • 1700 "Original Scotch Tunes" by Henry Playford
  • 1724 "The Ever Green" by Allan Ramsay (1686–1758)
  • 1735 "Orpheus caledonius" by William Thomson
  • 1751 "The Caledonian Pocket Companion" by anonymous
  • 1776 "Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs" by David Herd (1732–1810)
  • 1787–1803 The Scots Musical Museum in 6 volumes by James Johnson (1753?–1811) with contributions from Robert Burns (1759–1796)
  • 1803 "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
  • 1819–1821 Jacobite Reliques in 2 volumes by James Hogg (1770–1835
  • 1827 "Minstrelsy Ancient and Modern" by William Motherwell (1797–1835)
  • 1847 "The Roxburghe Ballads"
  • 1875 "Kerr's Collection of Merry Melodies for the Violin" by James S Kerr
  • 1882 "English and Scottish Popular Ballads" by Francis James Child (1825–1896)
  • References

    Scottish music (1500–1899) Wikipedia