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Patrick Scott

Scottish song

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Robert Burns: A Documentary Volume, Patrick Scott Oct 2018

Robert Burns: A Documentary Volume, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

This volume in the long-established Dictionary of Literary Biography series collects primary source materials on Burns’s life, reading, and writing; contemporary descriptions of the places he lived; reviews and selected poetic responses; obituaries; and contextual material on such topics as Ayrshire agriculture, the duties of an excise officer, song-editing, and 1790’s radicalism.  Along with over 300 documents and extracts, the book includes 34 manuscript facsimiles, 45 sidebars on special topics, 10 maps, and over 100 supporting illustrations. The link here is to the preface only, describing the book in more detail; the book itself is available in print, as an …

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Robert Burns, James Johnson, And The Manuscript Of "The German Lairdie", Patrick G. Scott Sep 2013

Robert Burns, James Johnson, And The Manuscript Of "The German Lairdie", Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Reports, illustrates, and assesses a fragment of manuscript music now in the G. Ross Roy Collection at the University of South Carolina, for Burns's song "The German Lairdie," headed in Burns's hand, and possibly with the music in his hand also. A note with the fragment, which was exhibited as Burns's autograph in 1896, states that it had been sent by Burns to the Edinburgh editor and publisher James Johnson, for inclusion in his Scots Musical Museum.

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Original Sources And Modern Sources On Burns's Songs, Patrick Scott Feb 2012

Original Sources And Modern Sources On Burns's Songs, Patrick Scott

Patrick Scott

A brief discussion of the two major early sources for Burns's songs, Johnson's Scots Musical Museum and Thomson's Select Collection, the sources for Burns's own comments about the songs, and very brief information about the modern scholarly editions that are generally available. Written by request in response to a question from the floor at a talk about the Serge Hovey Archive.

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