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.
Transcription Note: The above is a pretty accurate diplomatic HTML/CSS transcription of Bremner's title page. Mercifully, the original uses a reasonably basic Times-like font, which made doing that fairly straightforward. Slightly unusually for the mid-eighteenth century, Bremner only uses one "long-S" in the second-last line, which I've retained ("ſix Guineas"). It's probably also worth pointing out that the square brackets on the final line are original, and do not indicate an editorial insertion on my part. The only real (but pretty insignificant) mis-representation in my transcription is that the semi-colon at the end of line 3 ("GUITAR;") should be positioned half-way up the "R", rather than on the base of the line. I'll sort out of coding fix for this at some point.
However, Internet Explorer users should note that although the CSS I've used conforms to W3C standards and renders accurately in all decently standards-compliant browsers, older versions of Explorer mess up the spacings at the end of line 3 ("GUITAR;") and line 9 ("EDINBURGH:"). Given that all other major browsers don't mess my perfectly standards-compliant code up, I can't be bothered wasting my life providing fixes for Microsoft's past corporate idiocies, for which I make absolutely no apologies. ;-) As ever, I recommend having the highly-standards-compliant Mozilla Firefox installed on your system as at least your secondary browser.