A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs (Thomson, George)

Title A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs
Creators George Thomson, composer
David Mallet, librettist
Robert Burns, librettist
Peter Pindar, librettist
Thomas Percy, librettist
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, librettist
Allan Ramsay, librettist
Gilbert Elliot, librettist
Richard Hewit, librettist
George Lyttelton, librettist
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, librettist
Matthew Prior, librettist
James Beattie, librettist
Anne Hunter, librettist
Soame Jenyns, librettist
Thomas Campbell, librettist
Isaac Bickerstaffe, librettist
Thomas Otway, librettist
Mary Wortley Montagu, librettist
Alison Cockburn, librettist
Tobias Smollett, librettist
Anne Grant, librettist
William Shenstone, librettist
Paul Whitehead, librettist
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Instrumentation voice, violin, cello and piano
2 voices, violin, cello and piano
voice and piano
2 voices and piano
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First published 1793
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Composition types Airs, Folksongs
Language English
Period Classical
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Details Section Type Publisher Date File (click to view)
View Complete Volume 1 (Songs 1-50)
Volume 2 (Songs 51-100)
View Complete Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4 (1805)
View Complete Preston Volume 1 - Violin
Volume 1 - Cello
View Complete Preston 1822 Volume 1
Volume 2 (incomplete)
Volume 3
Volume 4
View Complete Preston 1826 Volume 3

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