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(177) Page 553 - Give ear to a frolicsome ditty; or, The rant
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Volume 2
Shelfmark	Glen.254a
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

Volumes 1-2 - Popular music of the olden time
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Description	A collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes ... with short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Also a short account of the minstrels. Airs harmonized by G.A. Macfarren. London: Cramer, Beale & Chappell, [1859]. 2 volumes. Paged continuously. [An expansion of his "Collection of national English airs", published 1838-40.]
Shelfmark	Glen.254-254a

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1859 [Date published]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published]
Person / organisation:	Cramer, Beale & Chappell [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.