Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs / James Hogg, Kirsteen McCue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogg, James, Author.

McCue, Kirsteen, Author.

Series:

The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg : STIR

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (832 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Provides a broader literary and musical context to Hogg's reception as a songwriterWhen James Hogg published what was to be his final collection of songs, Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd (1831), he set out to present his public with ‘a pocket volume’ of his best and most popular songs. It contained 113 songs spanning the whole of Hogg’s career as shepherd and professional writer, from his ‘first’ song, ‘Donald MacDonald’, created around 1803, to songs which had only just appeared in print. Hogg chose to write his own little ‘notices’ or headnotes to each of the songs providing information about the creation, and several humorous anecdotes about performances, of these songs. He also used these introductory notes to advertise the whereabouts of his songs within larger musical collections and in printed song-sheets which had appeared the length and breadth of the British Isles. In so doing Hogg was able to stake his claim as Scotland’s most important songwriter since Robert Burns.For the first time since their initial publication in the early decades of the nineteeth century, Hogg’s Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs presents Hogg’s songs in facsimile. Designed to be used in collaboration with the new edition of Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd, this volume will open up the world of Hogg’s songs for readers, providing, for the very first time the full textual and musical contexts of these songs as Hogg’s public would have known and enjoyed them. Information about Hogg’s involvement with a wide range of composers and music publishers, in addition to the affiliation of his songs with several leading singers of his day are given in the accompanying introductory and editorial notes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of The Collected Works of James Hogg

Contents

Introduction

Section I: Musical Collections

Albyn’s Anthology (1816 and 1818)

Twelve Vocal Pieces [1817]

German Hebrew Melodies [1817]

A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, Vol. V (Folio, 1818)

Thomson’s The Select Melodies of Scotland (1822–1825)

The Melodies of Scotland, Vol. VI (Folio, 1841)

A Border Garland [1819]

The Scotish Minstrel [1821–1824], (c. 1828–1837)

The Irish Minstrel [1825]

Select & Rare Scotish Melodies [1828]

The Border Garland (c.1829)

The Harmonicon (1829 and 1832)

Original Scottish Melodies [1834]

Section II: Miscellaneous Songs

Donald M‘Donald (c.1803)

Donald McDonald (c.1803)

The Ettricke Garland (1815)

Song for the Anniversary of the Caledonian Asylum (1815)

The Lament of Flora McDonald [1822] Second Edition

Bonny Prince Charlie (c.1819–1823)

Bonny Prince Charlie (c.1825)

Bonnie Prince Charlie (c.1835–1847)

O Jeanie, There’s Naething to Fear Ye (c.1822–1823)

Niddity Noddity Nannie (c.1828–1839)

“Oh Love’s a bitter thing to bide” (c.1829–1830)

Bird of the Wilderness (c.1830–1832)

The Stuarts of Appin (c.1831–1832)

I Hae Nae-Body Now (c.1833–1840)

Maggy o’ Buccleuch (c.1833–1840)

O! What Will A’ the Lads Do (c.1834–1858)

Appendix

The Minstrel’s Song [1818]

Beethoven Schottische Lieder (1822)

O Dinna Weep [1825]

Bird of the Wilderness (c.1835–1837)

Note on the Text

Emendation List

Editorial Notes

Index of First Lines and Melody Titles

Glossary

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)

ISBN:

1-4744-3298-0

OCLC:

1312726415