A Collection of Ancient Scots Music
by Dow, Daniel

Full title: A Collection of Ancient Scots Music for the Violin Harpsichord or German-Flute. Never before Printed, Consisting of Ports, Salutations, Marches or Pibrachs &c. by Daniel Dow. NB Where the Notes are below the Compass of the German Flute the Octave above may be Played.

Publisher: Edinburgh: Dow

Printer: Edinburgh: Printed for […] the Publisher

Date: [1775]

Description:

J Murdoch Henderson estimates the publication date of 1775, but two Copac sources estimate 1778.
The GB-A copy lacks its original titlepage, the dedication to The Dutchess of Athole, most of the subscriber list (up to R), and the final two pages.

Notes:

This book contains a self-consciously highland and 'ancient' repertoire, set down with added simple basses, including pibroch and tunes by Rorie Dall.

RISM: D3474

Gore: D14-2

Link: digitisation available at wirestrungharp.com

Biographical info: Daniel Dow (1732-1783) was born in Perthshire, and lived and worked in Edinburgh from c.1765. He was regularly employed by the Edinburgh Musical Society, and gave concerts in St Mary's Hall. Anecdotally, he was a music teacher who specialised in the guitar. (Glen 1, ix; Baptie; Alburger). One of the GB-A copies of Thirty-seven New Reels notes in ink that [Dow] died of fever January 1783, aged 51 years (burial register of Cannongate, Edinburgh).

Location(s):

GB-A f SB 787 McG
GB-DUcl 53675
GB-En Glen 232
GB-En Glen 233(1)

Digitised items

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