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ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS,
PART VL
Dili.
RED GLEAMS THE SUN.
This Song was afterwards inserted by the author in his
collection of " Poetry chiefly in the Scotish Language. By
Robert Couper, M. D." Inverness, 1804, 2 vols. 12mo.
He was the author of other lyrical pieces. One of these,
written " to a beautiful old Highland air," called Geordy
Agam, is inserted in Campbell's Albyn's Anthology, vol. ii.
p. 23. The author states, that he wrote this song at
the request of L. G. G. (Lady Georgiana Gordon, now
Duchess of Bedford), and that it alludes " to her noble
brother (the Marquis of Huntley), then with his regiment
in Holland. A few days after it was written, and to the
author's great uneasiness, the news arrived of his being
wounded, from which he is not yet recovered."
Dr Thomas Murray, in his Literary History of Gallo-
way, p. 247, refers to a MS. Life of Dr Couper, " com-
municated by his accomplished friend, John Black, Esq.,
Wigton. On applying to Dr Murray, I was favoured with
the following abstract of the memoir : —
*' Robert Couper was born at Balsier, parish' of Sor-
bie, Wigtonshire, of which farm his father was tenant, on
the 22d September 1750. He entered a student in Glas-
gow College in 1769. He studied at first for the Scotish
Church ; but his parents having died, and his patrimony
being small, if any thing at all, he accepted of an office as
tutor in a family in the State of Virginia, America, where he
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ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS,
PART VL
Dili.
RED GLEAMS THE SUN.
This Song was afterwards inserted by the author in his
collection of " Poetry chiefly in the Scotish Language. By
Robert Couper, M. D." Inverness, 1804, 2 vols. 12mo.
He was the author of other lyrical pieces. One of these,
written " to a beautiful old Highland air," called Geordy
Agam, is inserted in Campbell's Albyn's Anthology, vol. ii.
p. 23. The author states, that he wrote this song at
the request of L. G. G. (Lady Georgiana Gordon, now
Duchess of Bedford), and that it alludes " to her noble
brother (the Marquis of Huntley), then with his regiment
in Holland. A few days after it was written, and to the
author's great uneasiness, the news arrived of his being
wounded, from which he is not yet recovered."
Dr Thomas Murray, in his Literary History of Gallo-
way, p. 247, refers to a MS. Life of Dr Couper, " com-
municated by his accomplished friend, John Black, Esq.,
Wigton. On applying to Dr Murray, I was favoured with
the following abstract of the memoir : —
*' Robert Couper was born at Balsier, parish' of Sor-
bie, Wigtonshire, of which farm his father was tenant, on
the 22d September 1750. He entered a student in Glas-
gow College in 1769. He studied at first for the Scotish
Church ; but his parents having died, and his patrimony
being small, if any thing at all, he accepted of an office as
tutor in a family in the State of Virginia, America, where he
2 o
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| Description | By James Johnson. 6 volumes. Edinburgh : Printed & sold by Johnson & Co., 1787-1803. Burns contributed largely to the work, and Stephen Clarke prepared the arrangements of most of the airs. ["The volumes of the Musical museum, as originally published, were 'Humbly dedicated to the Catch Club, instituted at Edinburgh June 1771.' On the completion of the sixth and last volume, in 1803, Johnson substituted a new set of title-pages, dedicating the work 'To the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.'"--Laing's pref., to 1839 ed., v. 1, p. ii, foot-note]. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.201-201e |
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| Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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