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Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids
A Brief List of Material Relating to "Dumbarton's Drums"
Compiled by: Archive of Folk Culture staff
Publication Date: May 2, 1967
Chambers, Robert.
The Scottish Songs. Two volumes, Edinburgh: William Tait, 1829.
Vol. 1, pp. 59-60: text and discussion.
Dick, James C.
Notes on Scottish Songs by Robert Burns. London, 1908. Pp. 31,
94: discussion. Reprinted with Dick's The
Songs of Robert Burns and Davidson Cook's Annotation
of Scottish Songs by Burns,
with forward by George Henry Farmer, Hatboro, Pennsylvania:
Folklore Associates, 1962.
Glen, John.
Early Scottish Melodies. Edinburgh: J. & R. Glen, 1900
Goldstein, Kenneth S.
"Robert "Fiddler" Beers and His Songs: A Study
of the Revival of a Family Tradition." In: Two
Penny Ballads and Four Dollar Whiskey: A Pennsylvania Folklore
Miscellany,
edited by Kenneth S. Goldstein and Robert H. Byington, Hatboro,
Pennsylvania: Folklore Associates, Inc., for the Pennsylvania
Folklore Society, 1996, pp. 33-50. Text, tune and extensive discussion.
Johnson, James.
The Scots Musical Museum. Edinburgh, 1788. Volume 2,
p. 160, number 161: text and tune. 4th edition (1853) reprinted
with William Stenhouse's Illustrations of
the Lyric Poetry and Music of Scotland (see below) and foreward by George Henry Farmer,
Hatboro, Pennsylvania: Folklore Associates, 1962.
Lurtsema, Bob.
"Dumbarton's Drums." Sing Out!, volume 16, number 5,
November 1966, p. 32. Text, tune, and discussion.
Ramsay, Allan.
The Tea-Table Miscellany. Edinburgh: A. Ramsay, 1724. [Volume
1.] First printing of text.
Musik for the Scots Songs in the Tea-Table
Miscellany, Glasgow;
1725-1726. Pp. 98-99: first printing of tune.
[no author] The Singer's Companion. New York: Stringer & Townsend,
1854. Pp. 104-105: text and tune.
Stenhouse, William.
Illustrations of the Lyric Poetry and Music
of Scotland. Edinburgh
and London, 1854. Pp. 149-150: discussion. Reprinted as volume
2 of James Johnson's The Scots Musical
Museum (see above),
Hatboro, Pennsylvania: Folklore Associates, 1962.
Thompson, William.
Orpheus Oaledonius: A Collection of Scots
Songs Set to Music.
Second edition, two volumes, London, 1733. Volume 2, pp. 16-17,
number 8: first printing of text and tune. Reprinted in one
volume with forward by George Henry Farmer, Hatboro, Pennsylvania:
Folklore Associates, 1962.
[no author]
The Vocal Enchantress. London: J. Fielding, 1783.
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