Album Summary: The Skene MS (c.1620) is one of the most important early collections of Scottish music. A personal music-book in tablature for the mandour or mandore (a small type of Renaissance lute), it contains some 114 tunes, including the earliest recorded versions of several Scottish popular classics. This ScotMus.com album reproduces the first print edition of 85 of the manuscript's tunes, transcribed into modern staff notation by George Farquhar Graham for William Dauney's antiquarian study, The Ancient Melodies of Scotland (1838). Their edition rapidly became the definitive source of "ancient melodies" for several generations of editors and arrangers.