The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . displeased with the very feature forwhich I like them. I call them simple; you would pronounce them silly. September, 1793. You know thatmy pretensions to musical taste are merely a few of natures instincts, untaught and untutored by art. For thisreason, many musical compositions, particularly where much of the merit lies in counterpoint, however they maytransport and ravish the cars of you connoisseurs, affect my simple lug no otherwise than merely as melodiousdin. On the other hand, by way of amends, I am delighted with many lit
The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . displeased with the very feature forwhich I like them. I call them simple; you would pronounce them silly. September, 1793. You know thatmy pretensions to musical taste are merely a few of natures instincts, untaught and untutored by art. For thisreason, many musical compositions, particularly where much of the merit lies in counterpoint, however they maytransport and ravish the cars of you connoisseurs, affect my simple lug no otherwise than merely as melodiousdin. On the other hand, by way of amends, I am delighted with many little melodies, which the learned musiciandespises as silly and insipid. September, 1794. Not to compare small things with great, my taste in music islike the mighty Frederick of Prussias taste in painting: we are told that he frequently admired what the con-noisseurs decried, and always without any hypocrisy confessed his admiration, &c. 142 SCOTTISH SONGS. HOW LANG AND DREARY IS THE NIGHT. iUE. CAOTD KAIL IN ABERDEEN. ARRANGED BY PISLAT DCN. 100 E lang and drear - y is the nicht, When I am frae my dear - ie; I restless lie frae m 3>o=t -!?legato e p. B^E^IES :||- -a- -»? ^—*^=^F=^*==f^r- =3 =$ ^E §Ste^^l ft E c—§- een till morn, Tho I were neer so wear - y. For, oh ! her lane - ly nichts are lang ; And, .(B—« q^: p=^s^:|Epl=pyippa 1 C I «i/* /> Tannin tsemimva B
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