Composition: 32 Scottish Folksongs, B.707-738 (Pleyel, Ignaz)

Title 32 Scottish Folksongs
Alternative title A select collection of original Scotish airs for the voice, to each of which are added introductory & concluding symphonies & accompanyments for the violin & piano forte
Creators Ignaz Pleyel (composer) and Robert Burns (librettist) and Peter Pindar (librettist) and Allan Ramsay (librettist) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (librettist)
Opus B.707-738
Instrumentation voice and piano
2 voices and piano
voice, violin and piano
2 voices, violin and piano
Number of movements 32
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Composed 1793
First published 1793
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Composition types Folksongs
Language English
Period Classical
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Beneath a green shade, B.707 — — —
The night her silent sable wore, B.708 — — —
Tweedside (What beauties does Flora disclose), B.709 — — —
When wild war's deadly blast, B.710 — — —
Bush aboon Traquair (Hear me ye nymphs), B.711 — — —
Lochaber (Fare well to Lochaberfare well), B.712 — — —
The waefu' heart (Gin living worth), B.713 — — —
I'll never leave thee (One day I heared Mary say), B.714 — — —
Corn Riggs (My Patie is a lover gay), B.715 — — —
Donald (From thee Eliza I must go), B.716 — — —
The last time I came o'er the muir, B.717 — — —
Gilderoy (Ah! Chloris could I now but sit), B.718 — — —
The ewe bughts (Will ye go to the ewe bughts), B.719 — — —
Sae merry as we have been (A lass that was), B.720 — — —
Farewell thou fair day, B.721 — — —
Gramachree (One morning very early), B.722 — — —
Sweet Annie frae the sea-beach came, B.723 — — —
The banks of Banna (Shepherds I have lost my love), B.724 — — —
My apron deary (My sheep I neglected), B.725 — — —
Oh! Open the door, B.726 — — —
The birks of Invermay (The smiling morn), B.727 — — —
You're welcome to Paxton (Oh! had I a care), B.728 — — —
The braes of Yarrow (Busk yebusk ye), B.729 — — —
Galla water (Braw braw lads on Yarrow braes), B.730 — — —
The lowland lads think they are fine, B.731 — — —
Wandering Willie (Here awa'there awa'), B.732 — — —
O waly waly up the bank and waly, B.733 — — —
While some for pleasure, B.734 — — —
The yellow-hair'd laddie, B.735 — — —
Roslin Castle (Twas in that season of the year), B.736 — — —
Low down in the broom (My daddy is a carter), B.737 — — —
Auld Rob Morris (There's auld Rob), B.738 — — —

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