Scottish music (1500–1899)

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## Births and deaths

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### Births

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* Robert Carver (composer) (c. 1485 – c. 1570)
* Lady Nairn (1766-1845)
* James Scott Skinner (1843-1927)
* John Strachan (singer) (1875-1958)
* Jimmy MacBeath (1894-1974)
* Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (1732–81)

## Collections of songs or music

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* 1700 "Original Scotch Tunes" by Henry Playford
* 1724 "The Ever Green" by Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)
* 1735 "Orpheus caledonius" by William Thomson
* 1751 "The Caledonian Pocket Companion" by James Oswald
* 1776 "Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs" by David Herd (1732-1810)
* 1787-1803 The Scots Musical Museum in 6 volumes by James Johnson (1753?-1811) with contributions from Robert Burns (1759-1796)
* 1803 "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
* 1819-1821 Jacobite Reliques in 2 volumes by James Hogg (1770-1835
* 1827 "Minstrelsy Ancient and Modern" by William Motherwell (1797-1835)
* 1847 "The Roxburghe Ballads"
* 1875 "Kerr's Collection of Merry Melodies for the Violin" by James S Kerr
* 1882 "English and Scottish Popular Ballads" by Francis James Child (1825-1896)

## External links

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### Digitised copies from National Library of Scotland

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* Collection of original Scotch-tunes, (full of the highland humours) for the violin by Henry Playford, 1770.
* Volume 2 of The ever green: being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600 by Allan Ramsay, 1724.
* Volumes 1 and 2 of Orpheus Caledonius, or, A collection of Scots song by William Thomson, 1733.
* Caledonian pocket companion, 1747.
* Volumes 1 and 2 of Ancient and modern Scottish songs, heroic ballads, etc by David Herd, 2nd edition, 1776.
* Scots Musical Museum in six volumes by James Johnson, printed between 1787 and 1803.
* Volumes 1 and 2 of The Relics of Jacobite Scotland by James Hogg printed between 1819 and 1821.

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