A select collection of original Scottish airs, for the voice
Subtitle: with introductory & concluding symphonies & accompaniments for the piano forte, violin & violoncello : with select and characteristic verses both Scottish and English adapted to the airs, including upwards of one hundred new songs by Burns
By: by Pleyel, Kozeluch & Haydn
Contributors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Publisher: G. Thomson
Published: 1803
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: Songs with piano; Musical settings; English Songs; Songs with instrumental ensemble; Scots Ballads; Scots Songs
Other titles: Scottish airs for the voice.
Notes: Songs for 1 or 2 voices with piano, violin and cello.

First stanza set to music, also printed separately as text with additional stanzas.

Includes preface notes and index to the songs in each volume.

Vol. 3 and 4 contains works composed solely by Haydn.

" 'I do hereby certify, that all the songs of my writing, published, and to be published, by Mr. George Thomson of Edinburgh, are so published by my authority' "--Advertisement preceding t.p.

Vols. 1 and 2 bound together, and vols. 3 and 4 bound together.

Lacks accompaniment for violin and cello.

Handwritten signature in ink by G. Thomson on t.p.

Condition: very good with very light foxing.

Dr. James L. and Dr. Margaret Whitby donation.