Orpheus Caledonius, or a collection of the best Scotch Songs set to Musick, 1725 1951 (transcript of 18th century printed music score)

Henderson John Murdoch 1902-1972

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William Thomson, c 1684 - c 1760

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Willaim Thomson (c 1684 - c 1760) William Thomson (c1684 - c1760), Scottish singer and folk song collector, is thought to have been born in Edinburgh, where his father was one of the king's trumpeters for Scotland. He settled in London and in 1725 published Orpheus Caledonius, or a Collection of the best Scotch Songs set to Music . Many of the 50 Scottish folksongs contained in his collection were taken from Allan Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany (1723). In 1733 an expanded second edit...

Thomson William c 1684 - c 1760

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John Murdoch Henderson, 1902 - 1972, of Aberdeen, school teacher, collector of Scottish music (transcriber)

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Henry Playford (1657 - c 1707) Henry Playford (1657 - c 1707), carried on a music publishing business in London with his father, John Playford (1623 - 1686), author of the highly regarded and much-re-printed The Dancing Master (London: Playford, 1651). His best known works include Henry Purcell's Pastoral elegy on the death of Mr John Playford, with words by Nahum Tate (1687); and his own A Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes, (full of the Highland Humors), for the violin being the ...