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THE SCOTS MUSICAL MUSEUM. 133
two bars in the first strain identical with the Scottish final bars in the
second strain, otherwise the progression of the two tunes is totally
different ; where the Scottish ascends the Irish descends, and vice
versa. "We have never seen any claim made for Ireland before Joyce's
publication, and we should like to know his authority for it. Our Scottish
melody is contained in Oswald's " Curious Collection of Scots Tunes," 1740.
There is not a single word as to the origin of the tune given in Stenhouse's
Illustrations, nor in the additional notes to that work.
222. YOUNG PHILANDER.
Although the words of this song are contained in the second volume of
Ramsay's " Tea-Table Miscellany," they are directed to be sung to the tune
of " The Gallant Shoemaker." Stenhouse gives a tune so called in his
Illustrations, without informing us where he obtained it, but as he alludes
to Coffey's Opera of "The Female Parson," we conclude it is from that
source. The melody in the Museum we first discover in Adam Craig's
" Collection of the Choicest of the Scots Tunes," in or before 1730, next
in the Orpheus Caledonius, 1733. In both of these works it is named
" The Peer of Leith." The Scottish melody is entirely different from
" Philander," which Daniel Purcell set to a song in D'Urfey's Opera " The
Rise and Fall of Massaniello," 1699, and which afterwards appeared in the
first volume of the " Pills to Purge Melancholy," 1719.
223. ON A BANK OF FLOWERS.
This is not a Scottish tune, it was composed by a German musician
called Galliard, who died in London about the middle of last century.
224. THE DAY RETURNS, MY BOSOM BURNS.
Ttme — "Seventh of November."
This song was written by Robert Burns in compliment to his friend
Captain Robert Riddell of Glenriddell. The tune is one of Riddell's
compositions, and was published in his " Collection of New Music for the
Piano-Forte or Harpsichord," 1787. The seventh of November is said to be
the anniversary of the Captain's marriage.
225. MY LOVE SHE'S BUT A LASSIE YET.
We are told by Stenhouse, " The title and the last half stanza of the song
are old : the rest was composed by Burns." This last half stanza is taken