The
Scots Musical Museum.
Humbly Dedicated to The
Catch Club
Instituted at Edinr: June 1771.
BY
James Johnson
Vol. I
Price 6/
Edinr. Printed & Sold by Johnson & Co; Music Sellers head of Lady Stair's Close, Lawn Market; where may be had, variety of Music, & Musical Instruments, Instruments Lent out, Tun'd & Repair'd.,
TO THE TRUE LOVERS OF CALEDONIAN
Music and Song.
IT has long been a just and general Complaint, that among all the Music Books of SCOTS SONGS that have been hitherto offered to the Public, not one, nor even all of them put together, can be said to have merited the name of what may be called A COMPLETE COLLECTION; having been published only in detached pieces and parcels; amounting however upon the whole, to more than twice the price of this Publication; attended moreover with this further disadvantage, that they have been printed in such large unportable Sizes, that they could by no means answer the purpose of being pocket-companions; which is no small incumbrance, especially to the admirers of social Music.
To remedy these, and all other complaints and inconveniencies of the kind, this work, now before the public eye, has been undertaken, and carried on, Under the Patronage, direction, and Review of a number of Gentlemen of undisputed taste, who have been pleased to encourage, enrich, and adorn the whole literary part of the Performance. The Publisher begs leave only to say, that he has strenuously endeavoured, and will persevere to exert his utmost skill and assiduity in executing the mechanical part of the work. And he flatters himself, that his laudable unremitted emulation to gain the public esteem, will meet with the favourable regard of his obliging friends and generous Subscribers. The Subscription will be kept open, at least, to the publication of the Second Volume: which was all originally intended; and which will be published as soon as the work can be executed, which is already in great forwardness. Each Volume contains ONE HUNDRED Songs, with the original Music, embellished with Thorough Basses by one of the ablest Masters. And besides these hundred Songs, under the Music and Song inserted in the respective titles at the tops of the page, the performer will frequently find two or three additional Sets of apposite words to the same tune; adapted to the VOICE, HARPSICHORD, and PIANO-FORTE, &c.
It was intended, and mentioned in the Proposals, to have adopted a Considerable Variety of the most Musical and Sentimental of the English and Irish Songs; But this Scheme, not happening to meet with the general approbation, after several plates had been engraved for the purpose, it was determined, in compliance with what seemed to be the almost universal inclination of the Subscribers, to postpone it for the present, with a full intention to resume it afterwards, if it shall yet appear to be desired and encouraged, in a third, or a fourth Volume.
In the meantime, it is humbly requested, if any Lady or Gentleman have any meritorious Song with the Music (never hitherto Published) of the true Ancient Caledonian strain, that they would be pleased to transmit the same to the Publisher, that it may be submitted to the proper Judges, and so be preserved in this Repository of our National Music and Song, by their most
Obliged and Humble Servant,
JAMES JOHNSON.
Index of Authors' names in Vol. first.
so far as can be ascertained.
AN thou wert my ain thing
Page 2
Ah sure a pair was never seen
23
Auld lang syne
Ramsay
26
Allan water
Mr. Crawford, a gentleman of the family of Auchnames
43
As down on Banna's banks I stray'd
Mr. Poe
Irish Air
47
B
Bess the gawkie
4
Banks of the Tweed
6
Beds of sweet roses
7
Bony Scotman
Ramsay
13
Rlythe Jocky
25
Blythe Jockey young and gay
30
Bony Bessy
Ramsay
31
Blathrie o't
34
Blink o'er the burn, sweet Betty
Mitchel
52
Bony Jean
Ramsay
55
Blythsome bridal
58
Bony Christy
Ramsay
61
Busk ye busk ye
Ramsay
65
Bony brucket lassie
69
Broom of Cowdenknows
70
Birks of Invermay
The 2 first stanzas by Mallet, the 2 last by Dr. Bryce of Kirknewton
73
Banks of Forth
76
Bony grey-ey'd morn
Ramsay
80
Bush aboon Traquair
Mr. Crawford
81
Braes of Ballenden
Blacklock, the Music by Oswald
93
Bide ye yet
98
Bony Dundee
100
C
Come let's hae mair wine in
Ramsay
12
Collier's bony lassie
Ramsay
48
Corn riggs
Ramsay
94
D
Dear Roger if your Jenny geck
Ramsay
17
Down the burn Davie
Mr. Crawford
75
E
Etrick banks
82
F
From Roslin Castle's echoing walls
9
Flowers of Edinburgh
14
Fy gar rub her o'er wi' strae
Ramsay
17
Fairest of the fair
Dr. Piercy
33
Flowers of the forest
Miss Home
64
G
Gilderoy
Sir Alexr. Halket
67
Green grow the rashes
Mr. Burns
78
Go to the ewe bughts Marion
86
H
Highland Queen
Poetry and music both by a Mr. Mc. Vicar, once of the Solbay man of war
1
Highland King
ib.
Happy Marriage
20
Highland laddie
Ramsay
22
He stole my tender heart away
English Air
29
Had I a heart for falshood fram'd
Sheridan
47
Here awa there awa
58
Her absence will not alter me
72
I
Jamie Gay
15
Johny's gray breeks
28
Jenny's heart was frank and free
ib.
I wish my love were in a mire
Translated from Sappho by Philips
41
Jenny Nettles
53
Jocky said to Jenny
62
John Hay's bony lassie
Ramsay
68
I'll never leave thee
Mr. Crawford
92
Johny and Mary
101
K
Kate of Aberdeen
Cunningham
36
L
Lord Gregory
5
Lass of Livingston
Ramsay
18
Last time I came o'er the moor
Ramsay
19
Lass of Patie's mill
Ramsay
21
Lawland maids
Ramsay
23
Leander on the bay
27
Lucky Nancy
34
Logan water
Thomson
42
Loch Eroch side
78
Lewis Gordon
87
Low down in the broom
91
Lochaber
Ramsay
96
M
My dear Jockie
16
Mary's Dream
Mr. Alexr. Lowe, a young Galloway gentleman.
38
My ain kind dearie O
50
Mary Scot
Ramsay
74
My Dearie if thou die
Mr. Crawford
83
My Nanny O
Ramsay
89
My apron dearie
Sir Gilbt. Elliot
94
Muckin o' Geordie's byre
97
N
Nansy's to the greenwood gane
50
O
O lovely maid how dear's thy power
42
O'er the moor to Maggy
Ramsay
56
O'er the hills and far away
62
Oscar's Ghost
Miss Ann Kieth, The music by Mrs. Touch
71
O faw ye my father
77
Oh ono chrio
Composed on the massacre of Glencoe
90
P
Peggy I must love thee
Ramsay
3
Pinky house
57
R
Rostin Castle
Mr. Richd. Hewis, the music by Oswald
9
S
Saw ye Johny comin quo she
10
Saw ye na my Peggy
12
Sae merry as we twa hae been
60
She rose and loot mesio
84
Sweet Annie frae the fea beach came
85
T
Turnimspike man
24
To fly like bird from grove to grove
25
Twine weel the plaiden
32
Tweed Side
Mr. Crawford
37
The maid that tends the goats
Mr. Dudgeon
40
There's nae luck about the house
44
Tarry woo
45
The maid in bedlam
George Syron, a Negro in bedlam
46
There's my thumb I'll ne'er beguile you
66
W
Woo'd and married and a'
10
Water parted from the sea
English Air
39
Within a mile of Edinr. town
49
When absent from the nymph I love
54
When summer comes the swains on Tweed
Mr. Crawford
71
Wauking of the fauld
Ramsay
88
Y
Young Peggy blooms our bonniest lass
79
Entered in Stationer's Hall.