Composition: 40 Favorite Scotch Airs for Violin, Flute, or Cello (Gunn, John)

Title 40 Favorite Scotch Airs
Alternative title Forty Favorite Scotch Airs : Adapted for a Violin, German Flute or Violoncello, with the Phrases marked and Proper Fingering for the latter Instrument : Being a Supplement to the Examples in The Theory & Practice of Fingering the Violoncello
Creators John Gunn (composer)
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Instrumentation violin and cello
flute and cello
2 cellos
Number of movements 40
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First published 1789
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Composition types Airs, Folksongs
Period Classical
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The last time I came o’er the moor
Tweed side
The lass of Patie’s Mill
The mill mill o
So merry as we have been
Auld Robin Gray
The bush aboon Traquair
An thou were mine ain thing
Woe’s my heart that we shou’d sunder
Gilderoy
Pinkey House
Lachaber
The boat man
Nancy’s to the green wood gone
The yellow hair’d laddie
She rose and let me in
Donald
Roslin Castle
Polwart on the Green
Corn riggs are bonny
My nanny o
Gallow shiels
Alloa House
Katherine Ogie
Down the burn Davie
Busk ye, busk ye
The birks of Invermay
Logan water
De’el take the war
The bonny grey ey’d morning
I wish my love were in a mire
Gil Morris
Thro’ the wood laddie
Johny Faa
Love is the cause of my mourning
Bonny Jean of Aberdeen
My apron dearie
The Broom of Cowdenknows
I’ll never leave thee
The braes of Ballenden

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