The Scotish musical museum;
consisting of upwards of six hundred songs, with proper basses for the pianoforte.
Originally published by James Johnson; and now accompanied with copious notes and illustrations of the lyric poetry and music of Scotland, by the late William Stenhouse. With some additional illustrations ...

Description

Main Author: Johnson, James, ca. 1750-1811.
Related Names: Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 1781-1851
Laing, David, 1793-1878.
Stenhouse, William, 1773?-1827.
Clarke, Stephen, d. 1797.
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Language(s): English
Published: Edinburgh, W. Blackwood and sons; [etc., etc.] 1839.
Subjects: Folk songs, Scots.
Ballads, Scots.
Songs, Scots.
Note: Stenhouse's "Illustrations" published separately, 1853.
Contains, as added title-pages, the title-pages of 1st edition (2d issue): The Scots musical museum ... humbly dedicated to the Society of antiquaries of Scotland ...
Preface, v. 1, signed: David Laing. Notes added to Stenhouse's "Illustrations" by C. K. Sharpe.
Burns contributed 184 songs, wrote most of the prefaces to the different volumes, and may be said to have edited the 1st edition. The arrangements of the airs were prepared chiefly by Stephen Clarke. cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 30, p. 16.
The facsimile is a letter from Burns to Johnson.
Paged continuously.
Physical Description: 6 v. fold. facsim. 22 cm.
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