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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That's a Lass can charm ye, And to Joys alarm ye, Sweet is she to me. Some Angel ye wad ca' her, And never wish ane brawer, If ye bare Headed saw her, Kiltet it to the Knee. |
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. . . . a dainty Lass is,
Come let's join our Glasses, And refresh our Hawses, With a Health to thee. Let Coofs their Cash be clinking, Be Statesmen tint in Thinking, While we with Love and Drinking, Give our Cares the Lie. |
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