Collection of songs, glees, &c.
[New Lanark? : s.n.,
1825?]
Dated at head: New Lanark, 1st January, 1825.
Song lyrics in two printed columns.
A hitherto unrecorded song sheet used in the last year that Robert Owen was in charge of mills at New Lanark, inscribed in one corner of the back of the sheet ‘Clara,’ presumably the singer who used this sheet.
In Robert Dale Owen’s "An Outline of the System of Education at New Lanark" (1824)  he gives a contemporary account of how music education was given to children: "The musical notes and signs, as well as a variety of musical exercises are represented on a large scale, on a rolled canvas, similar to that on which the botanical species are painted. A small selection of simple airs is made, for the school, every three months. The words to these are printed on sheets, one of which is given to every child. Spirited songs, in the bravura style, are found to be much more adapted to children under ten years of age, than more slow and pathetic airs, into the spirit of which they seldom seem to enter, while the former are uniformly their favourite songs, particularly any lively national airs with merry words."
"The surviving cashbook for the New Lanark Institution provides a detailed monthly expenditure account for the years 1816-25.  ... in the pages of the ledger is the evidence for the extensive program of musical education that Owen funded, partly from the profits generated by the Village Store but largely subsidized by the cotton-manufacturing business. Musical instruments - and repairs thereto - feature frequently, and the ledger provides details of purchases and the cost of repairs for flutes, bassoons, clarinets, trumpets, violins, and drums. Printed song sheets were purchased." See Lorna Davidson. ‘A Quest for Harmony: The Role of Music in Robert Owen’s New Lanark Community’, Utopian Studies Penn State University Press, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2010.
. Wandering Willie -- 2. The Chapter of Kings -- 3. Duncan Gray -- 4.The bowers of Mosellai -- 5. Saw ye Johnny comin’ -- 6.Home -- 7. Old Towler -- 8. Venetian Boatsong -- 9. Logie o’ Buchan -- 10. Blythe will I be -- 11. The Weddin’.
Scotland New Lanark.