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The Scots musical museum in six volumes. Consisting of six hundred Scots songs with proper basses for the piano forte &c. Humbly dedicated to the Society of anti-quaries of Scotland

Print Book, English, [1787-1803]
Printed & sold by J. Johnson, Edinburgh, [1787-1803]
6 volumes in 3 (620 pages)
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Burns contributed 184 songs, wrote most of the prefaces to the different volumes, and may be said to have edited the work. The arrangements of the airs were prepared chiefly by Stephen Clarke. cf. Dict. nat. biog. v. 30, p. 16