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Births and deaths

Births

• Robert Carver (composer) (c. 1485 – c. 1570)
• Lady Nairn (1766–1845)
• James Scott Skinner (1843–1927)
• John Strachan (singer) (1875–1958)
• Jimmy MacBeath (1894–1974)
• Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (1732–81)

Collections of songs or music

• 1700 "Original Scotch Tunes" by Henry Playford
• 1724 "The Ever Green" by Allan Ramsay (1686–1758)
• 1735 "Orpheus caledonius" by William Thomson
• 1751 "The Caledonian Pocket Companion" by James Oswald
• 1776 "Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs" by David Herd (1732–1810)
• 1787–1803 The Scots Musical Museum in 6 volumes by James Johnson (1753?–1811) with contributions from Robert Burns (1759–1796)
• 1803 "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
• 1819–1821 Jacobite Reliques in 2 volumes by James Hogg (1770–1835
• 1827 "Minstrelsy Ancient and Modern" by William Motherwell (1797–1835)
• 1847 "The Roxburghe Ballads"
• 1875 "Kerr's Collection of Merry Melodies for the Violin" by James S Kerr
• 1882 "English and Scottish Popular Ballads" by Francis James Child (1825–1896)

External links

Digitised copies from National Library of Scotland

• Collection of original Scotch-tunes, (full of the highland humours) for the violin by Henry Playford, 1770.
• Volume 2 of The ever green: being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600 by Allan Ramsay, 1724.
• Volumes 1 and 2 of Orpheus Caledonius, or, A collection of Scots song by William Thomson, 1733.
• Caledonian pocket companion, 1747.
• Volumes 1 and 2 of Ancient and modern Scottish songs, heroic ballads, etc by David Herd, 2nd edition, 1776.
• Scots Musical Museum in six volumes by James Johnson, printed between 1787 and 1803.
• Volumes 1 and 2 of The Relics of Jacobite Scotland by James Hogg printed between 1819 and 1821.

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