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Orpheus Caledonius.
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So bonny, blyth and gay,
In fpight of all my skill.
Hath ftole my Ficart away.
When teddiitg of the Hay
Barc-hcadcd on the Green,
Love 'midft her Locks did play,
And wanton'd in her Een.
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Her Arms, white, round and fmooth^
Breads rifing in their Dawn,
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Volume 1
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Shelfmark	Glen.169
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
Subject / content:	Music (discipline)
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Volumes 1-2 - Orpheus Caledonius, or, A collection of Scots songs
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Description	Set to music by W. Thomson. London : Printed for the author, MDCCXXXIII [i.e.1733]. 2 volumes. [An enlarged edition of Thomson's 'Orpheus Caledonius or a collection of the best Scotch songs', London, [1725].] Title pages in red and black. With a list of subscribers in Volume 1. Each volume has 4 pages Scores for the German flute.
Shelfmark	Glen.169-169a

Dates / events:	1733 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Person / organisation:	Thomson, William, approximately 1684-approximately 1760 [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.