A Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes
by Playford, Henry

Full title: A collection of Original Scotch-Tunes, (Full of the Highland Humours) for the violin: Being the First of this Kind yet Printed: Most of them being in the Compass of the Flute.

Publisher: London: Henry Playford at his Shop in the Temple-Change, Fleet-street

Printer: Printed by William Pearson, in Red-Cross-Alley in Jewin-street

Date: 1700

Description:

There is no apparent link with John Young's similarly-titled book of 1720.

Notes:

No basses.

Gore: P7

Link: NLS Digital Gallery Glen 112 - a facsimile edition from c.1900-1927 with pencil annotations

Biographical info: Henry Playford (1657-1709) was a London music publisher, son of John Playford. His 'Scotch' measures precede the strathspey genre, and no composers' names are given. (Alburger, 25-27) His use of the old-style typsetting rather than the fashionable new engraving process led to a decline in business (Grove).

Location(s):

GB-A (by Playford, pub by John Cullen, 1705)
GB-DUcl 10510 (Wighton's MS copy of Dr Laing's original)
GB-En Glen 112
GB-En Ing.4
GB-Lbl (1701)

Digitised items

This source has not been digitised.