Album Summary: William Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius (1725) was a landmark publication; the first ever large-scale collection of "Scotch Songs" in print — 50 songs arranged with un-figured bass, most with lyrics from Allan Ramsay's Scots Songs and Tea-Table Miscellany, plus an appendix of melodic reductions. It was an instant hit and in 1733, expanded into 2 volumes with 100 songs. Indeed, Thomson's Orpheus set the standard format for Scots Song settings for the rest of the eighteenth century, including those of Robert Burns in The Scots Musical Museum. This ScotMus.com album is a faithful reprint of the song arrangements from the historic 1st edition of 1725.
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But I loor chuse in Highland Glens,
To herd the Kid and Goat-man, E'er I cou'd for sic little Ends, Refuse my bonny Scot-man. Wae worth the Man, Wha first began, The base ungenerous Fashion, Frae greedy views, Love's Art to use, While Strangers to its Passion. |
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Frae foreign Fields my lovely Youth,
Haste to thy longing Lassie, Wha pants to press they bawmy mouth, And in her Bosom hawse thee. Love gi'es the word, Then haste on Board, Fair winds and tenty Boat-man, Wast o'er wast o'er. Frae yonder Shore, My blyth, my bonny Scot-man. |