Description
This is a modern (1991) two volume facsimile reproduction of the six volumes issued from 1787-1803. Each of these two volumes has 3 of the original volumes. In addition, Donald A Low wrote a new, 26 page, introduction to this set. Includes an index of the songs written by Robert Burns. --- James Johnson collected six hundred Scots songs, including over two hundred written by the poet, Robert Burns. The music is suitable for piano, as well as other traditional instruments. In the publication, Johnson retained the original simplicity of the ancient national Scottish airs unencumbered with useless accompaniments and graces depriving the hearers of the sweet simplicity of their native melodies. --- There are also Appendices in this edition, which largely comment on the history or source of the songs: 1) Burns notes on Scottish Songs, which he wrote in a friends copy of the first 4 volumes. (59 pages) - Notes written by Robert Riddell on the songs (11 p.) - List of Interleaves Missing with Notes Printed in Cromeks Reliques of Robert Burns Which Cannot Be Verified (3 p) - Spurious Notes printed in Cromeks Reliques, 1808 (6p) - Annotationsof Scottish Songs By Burns by Davidson Cook: Many notes hitherto deemed Spurious and Garbled are restored to textual currency ans authentic emanations of the Poets song-lore (21 p).