The Songs of Robert Burns 1st Edition by Donald Low (PDF)

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In this definitive work for our generation, Donald Low brings together, for the first time, the words and tunes of all Burns’ known songs, both `polite’ and bawdy. The Songs of Robert Burns were, in their author’s eyes, the crown of his achievement as a poet. After years of study and investigation, many hours spent listening to old airs, as he recalled the living, daily, song-life of the people of Scotland, and through the creation of some of the finest lyric poetry produced in the British Isles, Burns’ success is beyond doubt.

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⭐All the known songs, including those with unknown tunes, in a compendious scholarly work; Donald Low’s scholarship is thorough; however the music editor David Johnson took liberties in copying the scores, omitting numerous key details. For example: a grace note, half note and quarter note in a measure of “Afton Water” are rendered as three quarter notes. Mr. Johnson dropped two sixteenth note pairs from the melody of “Bob o’ Dumblane,” sharped another note, and copyrighted the altered tune as an original arrangement; the tune from Orpheus Caledonius which Mr. Burns indicated be set with the lyrics is hence not to be found in this book. For “Brose and Butter,” the text states that “no air is named,” and none is given, though the tune called “Brose and Butter” is in both Robert Bremner’s Scots Reels and Niel Gow’s Repository of the Dance Music of Scotland. The text promises a superior tune for “Nine Inch Will Please a Lady,” one found in The Caledonian Pocket Companion, but the musical editor instead copies the familiar session tune to “Merrily Kissed the Quaker” that was printed in James Kinsley’s work. Copy-editing is lax, as “the beast again can bear us baith” from “Duncan Gray” is given as “the beat again can bear us baith.” You’ll hear this typo sung on the Linn Collection’s Complete Songs of Robert Burns. Low’s is best used as a reference book to tell one where to look up the source books for the tunes; Kinsley is to be preferred for the song texts.

⭐This book contains ALL LYRICS AND TUNES of Robert Burns, as well as the background,history and annotation of every song. To sing these songs is endless joy! A must have for every folk song fan, and for everyone who want to know what the serious study of folk musicology is.

⭐Considering Burns’ words are free elsewhere, the illegibility of the music makes this a very expensive purchase. Do not buy.

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