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• The Merry Muses of Caledonia: A Collection of Favourite Scots Songs, Ancient and Modern, Selected for Use of the Crochallan Fencibles (1799), ed. by Robert Burns (HTML at horntip.com)
• Schottische Volkslieder der Vorzeit (Hoffmann und Campe, 1861), by Rosa Warrens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Scotish melodies : from a manuscript of the reign of King James VI : with an introductory enquiry illustrative of the history of the music of Scotland (Edinburgh Printing and Pub. Co., 1838), by William Dauney, Finlay Dun, and Scotland). Library Faculty of Advocates (Edinburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hallow fair : to which are added, Queen Mary's lamentation, The contented lover, Ungrateful nanny, Homeward bound. (Printed by W. Macnie, 1826) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Todlen hame : The bandy-legged officer, What have we with day to do, Hae ye seen in the calm dewy morning, It was in and about the Martinmas time, Deserted by the waning moon. (Printed for the booksellers, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; With a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition (second edition, 3 volumes; Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ballantyne for Longman and Rees, 1803), ed. by Walter Scott
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• A Collection of Ballads, ed. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• The Scottish songs (Printed by Ballantyne and copany, for W. Tait, 1829), by Robert Chambers and Esme L. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scottish historical and romantic ballads, chiefly ancient; with explanatory notes and a glossary. To which are prefixed some remarks on the early state of romantic composition in Scotland (Printed by J. Ballantyne & co. for J. Smith and son, Glasgow; [etc., etc.], 1808), by John Finlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verstellung, Heuchelei, Hinterlist und Verrat in den englisch-schottischen Volksballaden... (Halle a.S., 1908), by Friedrich Kreusch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The songs of Scotland, ancient and modern; with an introd. and notes, historical and critical, and characters of the lyric poets ([AMS Press], 1975), by Allan Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The road to the Isles; poetry, lore, and tradition of the Hebrides (R. Grant & son, 1927), by Kenneth MacLeod (page images at HathiTrust)
• The songs of Scotland prior to Burns with tunes. (W. & R. Chambers, 1880), by Robert Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ballads of Scotland. (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1858), by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minstrelsy, ancient and modern; with an historical introduction and notes. (W. D. Ticknor & co., 1846), by William Motherwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A north countrie garland (Priv. print. [London, etc., Unwin Bros., printers], 1884), by James Maidment and Edmund Goldsmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• The songs of England and Scotland ... (J. Cochrane and co., 1835), by Peter Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Scottish ballads. (W. Tait, 1829), by Robert Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The songs of Scotland, ancient and modern; with an introduction and notes, historical and critical, and characters of the lyric poets. (J. Taylor, 1825), by Allan Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (Oliver and Boyd, 1932), by Walter Scott and T. F. Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schottische Volkslyrik in James Johnson's The Scot's musical museum (Berlin : Mayer & Müller, g.m.b.h., 1920., 1920), by Erich Schwebsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vagabond songs and ballads of Scotland, with many old and familiar melodies (A. Gardner, 1899), by Robert Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads and poems (W. Blackwood and sons, 1898), by Glasgow ballad club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads and poems / 3d ser. (W. Blackwood, 1908), by Glasgow Ballad Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jacobite songs and ballads (selected). With notes, genealogical table of the Stuarts, introduction, glossary, &c. (W. Scott, 1888), by Gilbert Samuel Macquoid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scottish ballads and songs, historical and traditionary. (W. Patterson, 1868), by James Maidment (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Illustrated book of Scottish songs : from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. (N. Cooke, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Celebrated songs of Scotland, from King James V. to Henry Scott Riddell. Edited with memoirs and notes (W. Pagan, jr. & son, 1886), by John Dawson Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular ballads of the olden time (A. H. Bullen, 1906), by Frank Sidgwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Scottish ballads (Charles Griffin and co., 1864), by William Motherwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ballads of Scotland (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1861), by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• The illustrated book of Scottish songs. From the 16th to the 19th century. (Houlston and Wright, 1867), by Charles Mackay and Charles Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (A.&C. Black, 1873), by Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scottish song: its wealth, wisdom, and social significance (W. Blackwood and sons, 1889), by John Stuart Blackie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of ballads, ancient and modern. (Virtue, Spalding, and co., 1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of Scottish ballads : a comprehensive collection of the most approved ballads of Scotland, ancient and modern (Blackie, 1874), by Alexander Whitelaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ballads of Scotland (W. Blackwood and sons, 1859), by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Scotish minstrel : a selection from the vocal melodies of Scotland, ancient and modern, arranged for the piano forte (R. Purdie, 1824), by Robert Archibald Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Scotish musical museum; consisting of upwards of six hundred songs, with proper basses for the pianoforte. (W. Blackwood and sons; [etc., etc.], 1839), by James Johnson, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, David Laing, William Stenhouse, Stephen Clarke, and Robert Burns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scots minstrelsie : a national monument of Scottish song (Caxton Publishing Co., 1890), by John Greig (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Airs and melodies peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles, communicated in an original, pleasing, and familiar style; having the lively airs introduced as medleys to form a sequence to each slower movement. With an admired plain harmony for the piano forte, harp, organ, or violoncello. (Printed and sold for the editor ;, 1816), by John Gow, S. Fraser, and Edinburgh Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jocobite songs and ballads (W. Scott, 1887), by Gilbert Samuel Macquoid (page images at HathiTrust)
• English and Scottish popular ballads (Houghton Mifflin company, 1932), by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge, and Helen Child Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of Scotland, chronologically arranged with introduction and notes. (Maurice Ogle, 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love songs of Scotland: jewels of the tender passion selected from the writings of Burns, Tannahill, Scott, Ramsay, Lady Nairne, Macneill, Jamieson, Hogg, Douglas, Allan, & others: (New Amsterdam book company, 1901), by Robert W. Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The songs of Scotland : ancient and modern; with an introduction and notes, historical and critical, and characters of the lyric poets. In four volumes. (Printed for John Taylor, 1825), by Allan Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jacobite songs and ballads (W. Scott, limited, 1887), by Gilbert Samuel Macquoid (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of Scottish song : (Blackie and Son, 1843), by Alexander Whitelaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tea-table miscellany: a collection of choice songs, Scots and English. Reprinted from the 14th ed. (J. Crum, 1871), by Allan Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The royal jubilee : a Scottish mask (W. Blackwood, 1822), by James Hogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whistle-binkie; a collection of songs for the social circle. (D. Robertson & co., 1890), by David Robertson, Alexander Rodger, and John D. Carrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tea-table miscellany; a collection of choice songs, Scots & English; reprinted from the 14th ed. (Forrester, 1875), by Allan Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tea-table miscellany : or, A collection of choice songs, Scots & English (London : Printed for A. Millar, 1750), by Allan Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Scottish minstrel ; the songs of Scotland subsequent to Burns (W. P. Nimmo, 1882), by Charles Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minstrelsy of the Scottish border : consisting of historical and romantic ballads collected in the southern counties of Scotland, with a few of modern date founded upon local tradition (Printed by J. Ballantyne for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1812), by Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ca' the yowes : for tenor solo and chorus of mixed voices (Curwen, 1922), by Ralph Vaughan Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads of the North countrie (W. Scott, 1888), by Rosamund Marriott Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Scottish minstrel : the songs of Scotland subsequent to Burns, with memoirs of the poets (W. P. Nimmo, 1885), by Charles Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schottische und walisische Volkslieder. mit Begleitung von Violine, Violoncello und Klavier (Steingräber, 1927), by Joseph Haydn and Bernhard Engelke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examples of printed folk-lore concerning Fife (Pub. for the Folk-lore society by Sidgwick & Jackson, ltd., 1914), by John Ewart Simpkins and David Rorie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular ballads and songs, from tradition manuscripts, and scarce editions. (printed by P. Renouard for A. A. Renouard, 1825), by A. Loève-Veimars (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient and modern Scottish songs, heroic ballads, etc.; reprinted from the edition of 1776, with an appendix containing the pieces substituted in the edition of 1791 for omissions from that of 1776. (Kerr & Richardson, 1869), by David Herd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scotish ballads and songs. (T. G. Stevenson, 1859), by James Maidment (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sempill ballates. A series of historical, political, and satirical Scotish poems (T. G. Stevenson, 1872), by Robert Sempill and Thomas George Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ballads of Scotland (W. Blackwood, 1858), by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orain Ghaidhealach le Donnchadh Macantsaoir = The Gaelic songs of Duncan MacIntyre (John Grant, 1912), by Duncan Macintyre and George Calder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sempill ballates. A series of historical, political, and satirical Scottish poems, ascribed to Robert Sempill. M.D.LXVII-M.D.LXXXIII. To which are added poems by Sir James Sempill of Beltrees, M.D. XCVIII-M.D.CX. Now for the first time printed. (T.G. Stevenson, 1872), by Robert Sempill and Thomas George Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the Hebrides. (Boosey, 1922), by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and Kenneth Macleod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scottish life and history in song & ballad. (R. Forrester, 1879), by William Gunnyon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spindle-side of Scottish song (Dent, 1902), by Jessie Patrick Findlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballad book. (Sibley & co., 1890), by Katharine Lee Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whistle-Binkie : or, the piper of the party being a collection of songs for the social circle. (David Robertson & Co., 1878), by John D. Carrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballad book (Sibley & Co., 1904), by Katharine Lee Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballad book (Sibley & Company, 1915), by Katharine Lee Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• The songs of Scotland chronologically arranged, with introduction and notes. (A. Gardner, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vagabond songs and ballads of Scotland, with many old and familiar melodies (A. Gardner, 1901), by Robert Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traditional tunes; a collection of ballad airs, chiefly obtained in Yorkshire and the south of Scotland; together with their appropriate words from broadsides and from oral tradition. (C. Taphouse & son, 1891), by Frank Kidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Caledonian musical museum: being a collection of the best songs, ancient and modern: (J. Dick and Co., 1821), by Robert Burns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs and hymns of the Gael : with translations and music and an introduction (E. Mackay, 1900), by Lachlan Macbean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballad book (B.H. Sanborn, 1931), by Katharine Lee Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Scottish Orpheus : a collection of the most admired songs of Scotland (Paterson & Sons ;, 1890), by Adam Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new Scottish orpheus (Paterson's Publications, 1922), by J. Michael Diack (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of British song for home and school. (Murray, 1909), by Cecil J. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cycle of old Scottish melodies for four solo voices (G. Schirmer, 1917), by Arthur Whiting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Scotish melodies, from a manuscript of the reign of King James VI : with an introductory enquiry illustrative of the history of the music of Scotland ... (Printed for the Maitland Club, 1838), by William Dauney and Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Anderson my Jo John (Endicott, 1836), by John Watson, Robert Burns, and Mrs Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Geschichte der schottischen Musik im XVII. Jahrhundert nach bisher nicht veröffentlichten Manuskripten (Buchdruckerei Berichthaus, 1919), by Nelly Diem (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient Scots ballads, with the traditional airs to which they were wont to be sung. With harmonies for the pianoforte (Bayley & Ferguson, 1890), by George Eyre-Todd and Emile Berger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annie Laurie (Novello & Company, 1907), by John Scott and H. Elliot Button (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scottish humorous poetry : embracing nearly 500 Scottish songs and poems ; known as "The thistle", "Land of Burns", "Bailie Nicol Jarvie", "Glasgow", "Bonnie Dundee", "Sailor boys", "Edinburgh castle", "Heather Jack", "garibaldi", &c., &c., &c. (Worthington Company, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads of the North countrie (White and Allen, 1895), by Rosamund Marriott Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English and Scottish popular ballads (Houghton, Mifflin, 1898), by Francis James Child and George Lyman Kittredge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Liebe in den englischen und schottischen Volksballaden ([s.n.], 1906), by Paul Schütte (page images at HathiTrust)

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