To mark the beginning of work on the second volume of the Oxford University Press edition of the Works of Robert Burns – The Scots Musical Museum, edited by Murray Pittock – here are a selection of Burns’s own notes on some of the songs contained therein. These excerpts are taken from the ‘Interleaved Scots Musical Museum‘: four volumes annotated in Burns’s holograph. The excerpts are read by Scottish Poet, film-maker, editor and literary critic, Donny O’Rourke.
- Note – ‘Auld Lang Syne’
- Note – ‘The Highland Laddie’
- Note – ‘Highland Mary’
- Note – ‘May-eve, Or Kate Of Aberdeen’
- Note – ‘My Jo, Janet’
- Note – ‘Saw Ye Nae My Peggy‘
- Note – ‘She Rose, And Let Me In’
- Note – ‘Strephon And Lydia’
- Note – ‘The Beds Of Sweet Roses’
- Note – ‘The Flowers of Edinburgh’
- Note – ‘The Lass Of Peaty’s Mill’
- Note – ‘Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut’
- Letter To James Hoy Edinburgh 20 October 1787