The first ever edition of The Tea-Table Miscellany, the seminal collection in defining eighteenth-century Scottish song Detailed examination of the musical archaeology for each of the songs, providing for the first time comprehensive antecedents for almost all the songs in this critical contribution to the establishment of a Scottish song 'tradition' Uniquely comprehensive survey of early sources for the tunes of Ramsay's songs Detailed collation of texts against all extant manuscript sources and relevant printed editions and comprehensive explanatory annotations offering new insights into Ramsay's cultural, historical, political, literary and theatrical contexts This edition of The Tea-Table Miscellany is the first ever produced, bringing together the four volumes of this collection of songs published between 1723 and 1737. The Tea-Table Miscellany combines traditional Scottish song, works by Allan Ramsay and his contemporaries, together with material from D'Urfey, Playford and the English stage and broadside, in a collection of 399 songs. This edition offers, for the first time, annotations, background, and a study of origins for all the songs and tunes examining both Ramsay's categorisation of the authorship and origin of the song texts and tunes to which it was most likely he was referring. As such, the edition consists of a detailed introduction, the clearly presented song texts, notes on the songs that identify both their print and musical antecedents, musical illustrations that show major variations in the contemporary tunes with which the songs are associated, illustrations of the title pages, and the main design features and ornaments used in Ruddiman's original edition.

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Allan Ramsay (c. 1684 1758) was a foundationally important poet, dramatist, song collector, theatre owner, cultural leader in art and music, and innovative entrepreneur in many spheres from language to libraries.Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is Bradley Professor and Pro Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow, and Scotland's leading cultural historian. A prizewinner of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy, he has held visiting appointments or spoken at the universities of UC Berkeley, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, UCL, New York University, Notre Dame, Oslo, Oxford, the Sorbonne, Virginia, Yale, Gresham College, the British Academy, The British Museum, Hampton Court, the Smithsonian, the House of Commons and many other locations. He is the General Editor of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay.Select Publications include Scotland: The Global History (2022), Enlightenment in a Smart City (2019), Robert Burns and James Johnson: The Scots Musical Museum (2 vols, 2018); Culloden (2016, 2017, 2022; Folio Edition, 2021).Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland is the Music Research Associate on the 'The Edited Collection of Allan Ramsay' project and is a Lecturer in Historical Musicology at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her first monograph, Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing: Scandalous Lessons was published in 2022.She is the Principal Investigator for the Royal Society of Edinburgh-funded project, Scotland's Singing for Health Network and she has been a visiting researcher at the University of Sydney and at Chawton House. Past projects include establishing the Royal Society of Edinburgh-funded network, the Eighteenth-century Arts Education Research Network and working as Research Assistant for the Romantic National Song Network, also funded by Royal Society of Edinburgh.Select Publications include Music from home: Symonds sheet music collection and the Scots in Australia, Journal of the Sydney Society for Scottish History (Forthcoming, 2022), Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing Scandalous Lessons (2022), 'Damage to trees': Performing Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd at Haddington Grammar School: A theory and its scholarly impact, Theatre Notebook 75(3), pp. 173-186 (2021), Mapping changes to the songs in The Gentle Shepherd, 1725-1788, Studies in Scottish Literature, 46(2), pp. 103-126 (2020) and Performance potential of Stationers' Hall collections, Brio, 56(2), pp. 77-86 (2019).

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