The Scotish musical museum
Subtitle: consisting of upwards of six hundred songs, with proper basses for the pianoforte.
By: Originally published by James Johnson; and now accompanied with copious notes and illus. of the lyric poetry and music of Scotland, by William Stenhouse. With some additional illus.
Contributors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Publisher: Blackwood
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: Songs, Scottish; Ballads, Scots.; Folk songs, Scots.
Other titles: The Scots musical museum
Notes: Original title pages read: The Scots musical museum ... Edinburgh, J. Johnson, 1787-1803.

Burns contributed 184 songs, wrote most of the prefaces to the different volumes, and may be said to have edited the work.  The arrangements of the airs were prepared chiefly by Stephen Clarke.  cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 30, p. 16.