A Note on the Project

There are numerous songs in Pagan's collection that have the name of a tune below their title. This project aims to recover those tunes and place them alongside Pagan's work, which was not meant to be silently read off of a page. When MIDI files and musical scores--both with just the skeleton of the melody for these tunes-- accompany Pagan's "poems," they can be read with a slightly better understanding of how the original audience experienced them.

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Sources

All texts of Isabel Pagan's lyrics taken from A collection of Poems and Songs, originally published in 1805, available through Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/swrp/swrp.index.map.aspx.


Digital Tradition Folk Music Database. http://sniff.numachi.com/.
--"The Humors of the Glen"
--"Scarborough Settler's Lament"
--"The Mill, the Mill-O"
--"Langolee"
--"Buy Broom Besoms"
--"The Campbells Are Comin'"
--"Lord Cornwallis' Surrender"
--"I'll Mak Ye Be Fain to Follow Me"

Johnson, Helen K. Our Familiar Songs and Those Who Made Them. New York: Arno P, 1974.
--"The Bush Aboon Traquair" (Robert Crawfurd)
--"Flowers of the Forest" (Jean Elliot)
--"Flowers of the Forest" (Alison Rutherfurd)
--"The Lass O' Gowrie" (Lady Nairne)

Neitzel, Otto. Gems of Antiquity: Vocal Masterpieces. Cincinnati: The John Church Company, 1909.
--"Bright Phoebus" (James Hook)

Richard Robinson's Tunebook. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/info/RRTuneBk/.
--"Foot's Minuet"
--"Neil Gow's Lament for His Second Wife"

Electric Scotland. http://www.electricscotland.com/
--"Of A' the Airts the Wind can Blaw"
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