Seventy Scottish Songs

Rating:
Summary: Super collection of Scottish Songs
Review: Helen Hoepkirk's collection first appeared in 1905 published by the Boston firm of Oliver Ditson. Hopekirk composed music, but she was better known as one fo the foremost Scottish pianists of her time. She was born in Edinburgh in 1856, and brought her love with her to the US. So it is a delight for people interested in Scottish music, and many of the lesser known songs are gems.

Thankfully Dover has rescued it and made it available, as they do with so many treasures.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointed
Review: I ordered this book of Scottish tunes to get the words and the music for a tune that had been requested of me to play at a friend's funeral. The tune was "Will Ye Nae Come Back Again" and was "advertised" with a sound clip as one of the tunes found in the book. It wasn't there. I ended up making a tape from the soundclip and I'm now learning the tune by ear from the tape. The friend is just PLANNING her funeral for the future, so there's no hurry, and I don't need the words as I will play the tune on my violin/fiddle, but I wouldn't have bought the book if I'd known the music for that tune was not in it. Carleen Frazier

Rating:
Summary: Disappointed
Review: I ordered this book of Scottish tunes to get the words and the music for a tune that had been requested of me to play at a friend's funeral. The tune was "Will Ye Nae Come Back Again" and was "advertised" with a sound clip as one of the tunes found in the book. It wasn't there. I ended up making a tape from the soundclip and I'm now learning the tune by ear from the tape. The friend is just PLANNING her funeral for the future, so there's no hurry, and I don't need the words as I will play the tune on my violin/fiddle, but I wouldn't have bought the book if I'd known the music for that tune was not in it. Carleen Frazier

Rating:
Summary: Great collection
Review: Originally compiled by Helen Hopekirk in 1905, and reprinted in 1922, this collection of Scottish folk songs is a must have for anyone interested in the folk history of the Scottish people. Hopekirk provides information about how and where she came across these songs, giving a wonderful ethnographic picture of a world 100 years gone-by. I came across this collection while searching for the music for Mairi Bhan Og (Fair Young Mary), a beautiful Scottish love song, to use at my wedding. A must-visit website for anyone interested in Scottish, Irish, Welsh or English folk music is Lesley Nelson's Website .... Complete with lyrics and high quality MIDIs of hundreds of songs, there is also an excellent Bibliography to such collections as this Helen Hopekirk's Seventy Scottish Songs.

Rating:
Summary: Great collection
Review: Originally compiled by Helen Hopekirk in 1905, and reprinted in 1922, this collection of Scottish folk songs is a must have for anyone interested in the folk history of the Scottish people. Hopekirk provides information about how and where she came across these songs, giving a wonderful ethnographic picture of a world 100 years gone-by. I came across this collection while searching for the music for Mairi Bhan Og (Fair Young Mary), a beautiful Scottish love song, to use at my wedding. A must-visit website for anyone interested in Scottish, Irish, Welsh or English folk music is Lesley Nelson's Website .... Complete with lyrics and high quality MIDIs of hundreds of songs, there is also an excellent Bibliography to such collections as this Helen Hopekirk's Seventy Scottish Songs.