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Title The high-kilted muse : Peter Buchan and his Secret songs of silence / edited by Murray Shoolbraid ; with a foreword by Ed Cray.

Publication Info. [Jackson] : University Press of Mississippi ; [Aberdeen] : in association with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 302 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and indexes.
Summary In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risqué? and convivial songs and ballads to a Highland laird. When Professor Francis James Child of Harvard was preparing his magisterial edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, he made enquiries about it, but it was not made available in time to be considered for his work. On his death it was presented to the Child Memorial Library at Harvard. Because of its unseemly materials, the manuscript has languished there ever since, unprinted, though referred to now and again, and a.
Contents Foreword: Peter Buchan and the Authenticity Controversy; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; PETER BUCHAN: INTRODUCTION; SECRET SONGS OF SILENCE: THE TEXT; Commentary; Appendices; First Line and Title Index; General Index
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Language Scots, with preliminaries and commentary in English.
Subject Buchan, Peter, 1790-1854.
Buchan, Peter, 1790-1854.
Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts.
Ballads, Scots.
Scotland.
Genre/Form Texts.
Subject Bawdy songs -- Scotland -- Texts.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- General.
Bawdy songs.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Folk & Traditional.
Added Author Buchan, Peter, 1790-1854.
Shoolbraid, Murray.
Added Title Secret songs of silence
Other Form: Print version: High-kilted muse. [Jackson] : University Press of Mississippi ; [Aberdeen] : In Association with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, ©2010 (DLC) 2009031477
ISBN 9781604734317 (electronic book)
1604734310 (electronic book)
9781604734171 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1604734175 (cloth ; alkaline paper)