Welcome to the multimedia heart of ScotMus.com — an ever-expanding collection of the primary sources of Scottish music's manuscript and print traditions. But it doesn't matter whether you can read music or not — each score is presented in a custom-built media player that plays an audio "illustration" of the tune for you. So, each album works as a virtual juke-box. No coins required — just press 'n' play!

The material here isn't what you'll find in most other tune-books. At ScotMus.com, the sources are presented without any unnecessary editorial alteration of their original content. These are not my own arrangements — they're reprints of the originals, from source. Further information can be found in my Transcription Policy and my MIDI Policy (exceptions to these rules are annotated individually).

Creator	Album	Scoring	Tunes	Date
John Skene	The Skene Manuscript [manuscript untitled]	Mandour [small renaissance lute]	85	c.1620
Henry Playford	Playford's Scotch-Tunes A Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes, (Full of the Highland Humours) for the Violin	Violin Or Flute / Recorder (some)	39	1700
William Thomson	Orpheus Caledonius Orpheus Caledonius or A Collection of the Best Scotch Songs set to Musick	Voice + Bass [Bass: keyboard / cello / etc.] Or Solo Recorder / Flute	50	1725
Robert Bremner (jnr?)	Bremner's Guitar Collection Instructions for the Guitar; with a Collection of Airs, Songs and Duets fitted for that Instrument	Baroque Guitar(s) (3 Guitar Duets; 4 Songs) [Songs: lyric under guitar part]	35	1758
Niel & Nathaniel Gow	Niel Gow's Collection of Strathspey Reels A Collection of Strathspey Reels With a Bass for the Violoncello or Harpsichord	Violin + Bass Bass: Cello and/or Harpsichord (1 for Flute + Harpsichord)	78	1784
Niel & Nathaniel Gow	Niel Gow's Recovery Niel Gow's Recovery A Strathspey and Lady Montgomrie's Reel Danced as a Medley at the Queen's Assembly	Violin + Bass [Bass: keyboard / cello / etc.]	5 [4]	1804
Sophia Scott-Lockhart (et al)	Abbotsford Collection of Border Ballads Abbotsford Collection of Border Ballads (a.k.a. "The Red Book")	Pedal Harp	10	c.1827

A Selection of Forthcoming Titles:
(sources already acquired)

Anon., "The Inchcolm Antiphoner" (c.1340)

"The Gude & Godlie Ballatis" (compilation, C16th various)

Tobias Hume, The First Part of Ayres (1605)

Tobias Hume, Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke (1607)

Edward Millar, The Psalmes of David (1635)

John Forbes, Cantus, Songs and Fancies (1682 [3rd ed.])

James Oswald, Twelve Divertimentis for the Guittar ([nd])

James Oswald, The Caledonian Pocket Companion (1740s+)

"James Oswald's Songs for Gentlemen" (compilation, 1750s)

Robert Bremner & Allan Ramsay, Scots Songs for a Voice & Harpsichord Vols.1 & 2 (1749+)

John Robertson, "Song-Overtures for Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd" (1758)

Robert Bremner, The Songs in the Gentle Shepherd adapted for the Guitar (1759)

Robert Bremner, The Harpsichord or Spinnet Miscellany (c.1765)

Patrick MacDonald, A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs (1781)

Thomas Erskine, "The Earl of Kelly's Minuets" (compilation, various dates)

James Johnson, Robert Burns & Stephen Clarke, The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1803)

David Allan & Andrew Foulis, "Song-Arrangements for Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd" (1788)

"Countess Balcarres", Vulcan's March (c.1790?)

Pietro Urbani, "Mozart, Reel & Jig" (c.1790?)

John Macglashan, Neil Gow: A Strathspey Rondo for Piano-Forte (c.1790?)

John Gunn, Forty Favorite Scotch Airs (c.1793)

Niel & Nathaniel Gow, Complete Repository of Original Scots Slow Strathspeys & Dances Part 1 (1799)

"The Music of Robert Burns" (compilation, various dates)

Sophia Corri-Dussek, Favourite Airs for the Harp (c.1811)

Simon Fraser, The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland (1816)

James Hogg, The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819)

"The Songs of Robert Tannahill" (compilation, various dates)

Joseph Mainzer, The Gaelic Psalm Tunes of Ross-Shire and the Neighbouring Counties (c.1847 [2nd ed: nd])

"The Forgotten Songs of William McGonagall" (compilation, various dates)

"The Lost Songs of Robert Louis Stevenson" (compilation, 1870s+)

Lots of Hamish MacCunn (T.B.A.)

Lots of Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (T.B.A.)

Lots of James Scott Skinner (T.B.A.)

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Songs of the Hebrides (1909-1921)

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Scots Folk-Tune Suite ([nd])

And, of course, everything else that's Glorious, Curious or Ludicrous...
Aye, I'll be working on this right up to The Final Curtain-Call...
— ScotMus.com is my magnum-opus-in-progress.
Why? Because some poor fool should do it, so in the absence of many bigger fools, it may as well be me.