A select collection of original Scottish airs for the voice
Subtitle: with introductory and 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; Kozeluch, Leopold, 1747-1818
Publisher: G. Thomson
Published: 1801
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.; Fifty Scottish songs, with symphonies & accompaniments.
Work titles: Scottish songs
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.

" '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 on t.p. versos of v.I and v.II.

Includes individual title pages for each volume.

Lacks accompaniment for violin and cello.

Handwritten signature in ink on title pages of v.I and v.II by G. Thomson.

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

Condition: very good with moderate soiling.

Dr. James and Dr. Margaret Whitby donation.
Table of contents: title: Vol. I. Fifty Scottish songs, with symphonies & accompaniments / the first twenty-five by Pleyel, the other twenty-five by Kozeluch.; title: Vol. II. Fifty Scottish songs, with symphonies & accompaniments / by Kozeluch ; excepting nos. 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86 & 92 which are by Pleyel.