Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses;

Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses
Catalogued and surveyed by Dr Roger B. Williams MBE
Hon. Music Advisor to NTS


Master Index – Volume Selection

BUC : The British Union-Catalogue of Early Music
CPM : Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980

Monday 6th October 2025

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Newhailes  NH 36   Nha.Mus.36
New NH 36/1-2  RBW 1559

A | Select Collection of | Original Scottish Airs | for the Voice, | With Introductory & Concluding Symphonies | & Accompaniments for the | Piano Forte, Violin & Violoncello | By | Pleyel, Kozeluch & Haydn | With | Select & Characteristic Verses both Scottish and English | adapted to the Airs including upwards of | One Hundred New Songs by | Burns | Vol. [1-]2 [ed. George Thomson]
[1803]    T. Preston, 97 Strand  ::  Sold also by G. Thomson, the Editor & Proprietor, Edinburgh.

2 vol. (in 1) pp.1-50,51-100  Sig. Henrietta Ferguson on t.p.

Voice and Keyboard only

This copy is a later ed. of the Pleyel/Kozeluch volumes (ie without Haydn), 1st published 1793-7. Preface dated September 1803.
On t.p.: 'Price of each volume, The Voice & Piano Forte, One Guinea The Violin & Violonc[ell]o .. parts separate 6 sh.'

Short Title  > A select collection of original Scottish airs, vol. 1-2
Cmp/Arr  > Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) (arr.)   |   Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818) (arr.)
Auth/Ed  > Burns, Robert (1759-1796)   |   Thomson, George (1757-1851) (ed.)
Pr/Pub/Bks  > Thomas Preston   |   George Thomson
Former Owner  > Henrietta D Fergusson