Musick for Allan Ramsay's Collection of Scots Songs
by Stuart, Alexander
Full title: Musick For Allan Ramsay's Collection of Scots Songs. Set by Alexr. Stuart & Engrav'd by R. Cooper
Publisher: Edinburgh: Allan Ramsay
Printer: Printed by Allan Ramsay. Engrav'd by R. Cooper
Date: [1724-6]
Description:
Individual numbers have the additional titlepage 'MUSICK For the Scots Songs in the TEA TABLE MISCELLANY / Part [First] / Inscrib'd to ...' 1) the Right Honourable Countess of Eglintoun; 2) the Right Honourable Lady Somervile; 3) the Honourable Lady Murray of Stanhope; 4) the Honourable Lady Weir; 5) Miss Christian Campbell; 6) Mrs. Young.
Notes:
The basslines are simple, having the appearance of basso continuo but no figures. The basses mostly move in crotchets, with some stepwise runs in quavers. Unadventurous but sensible harmony tends to be described by using notes within the tertial triad; binary harmonic structures are left plain, with no attempt to modulate between the two harmonic centres. Jig basslines tend towards crotchet-quaver but have a variety of treatment within each tune.
John Muir's Wood 1877 MS transcription of the tunes only, with parallel concordances from other sources, is in GB-En MS 3302, available here:
https://ia800504.us.archive.org/35/items/airsfromvariouss00stua/airsfromvariouss00stua.pdf
RISM: S7009
Gore: S16
Link: University of South Carolina University Libraries: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's copy.
Biographical info: Stuart (born c.1695) seems to have worked with Ramsay only for this collection. A vocal composer, he was a violinist for the Edinburgh Musical Society c.1726-36. (Baptie; Johnson; Holman, 77)
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- National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
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GB-A ([1724])
GB-A GB 231 MS 2439 (J. Murdoch Henderson's MS transcription, 1952)
GB-DUcl 10455
GB-En Inglis 38 (various names of past owners on titlepage and frontispiece)
GB-En Inglis 39 (imperfect: lacking frontispiece, main titlepage and pages 81-84)
GB-Gu Ca9-e12 ([1726?])
GB-Lbl K.4.a.18 ([1725?]
GB-P N9 34664
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