Early Scottish melodies

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Description	Also: Bonny Bessie. Also: Twine weel the plaiden

Early Scottish melodies
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Description	Including examples from manuscripts and early printed works, along with a number of comparative tunes, notes on former annotators, English and other claims, and biographical notices, etc. written and arranged by John Glen. Edinburgh : J. & R. Glenn, 1900. Bibliography of manuscripts and printed works in chronological order: p. xi-xvi.
Shelfmark	Glen.258
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Out of copyright - The physical item used to create this digital version is out of copyright

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1900 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content:	Ballads Scottish Folk songs
Person / organisation:	J. & R. Glen (Firm : Edinburgh, Scotland) [Publisher]
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Glen Collection of printed music
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.

Special collections of printed music
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.