Early song collection Scottish folk music

cover of john playford s collection of original scotch-tunes, (full of highland humours) violin (1700)

in scotland earliest printed collection of secular music publisher john forbes, produced in aberdeen in 1662 songs , fancies: thre, foure, or 5 partes, both apt voices , viols. printed 3 times in next twenty years, , contained seventy-seven songs, of twenty-five of scottish origin. in eighteenth century publications included john playford s collection of original scotch-tunes, (full of highland humours) violin (1700), margaret sinkler s music book (1710), james watson s choice collection of comic , serious scots poems both ancient , modern 1711. oppression of secular music , dancing kirk began ease between 1715 , 1725 , level of musical activity reflected in flood musical publications in broadsheets , compendiums of music such makar allan ramsay s verse compendium tea table miscellany (1723), william thomson s orpheus caledonius: or, collection of scots songs (1733), james oswald s caledonian pocket companion (1751), , david herd s ancient , modern scottish songs, heroic ballads, etc.: collected memory, tradition , ancient authors (1776). these drawn on influential collection, scots musical museum published in 6 volumes 1787 1803 james johnson , robert burns, included new words burns. select scottish airs collected george thomson , published between 1799 , 1818 included contributions burns , walter scott. among scott s works influential collection of ballads minstrelsy of scottish border (1802–03).