Album Summary: Robert Bremner's Instructions for the Guitar; with a Collection of Airs, Songs and Duets fitted for that Instrument (1758) is both an instrumental tutor and a diverse collection of graded pieces for the popular 6-course Baroque guitar (tuned in open C). The introductory tutorial is one the earliest for this instrument, containing handy information about contemporary performance practice. The following 35 graded pieces pedagogically work out from simple song and dance tunes to more complex material, mixing together both Scottish and common British repertoire. This ScotMus.com album is a complete transcription of the Edinburgh 1st edition of 1758.

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I flew to my Reason intreated her Aid,
She paus'd on my Case & each circumstance weigh'd,
Then gravly reply'd in return to my prayer,
That Hebe is fairest of all that are fair.
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That truth reply'd I I've no need to be taught,
I came for a Council to find out a fault,
If thats all said Reason return as you came,
To find fault with Hebe wou'd forfeit my name.