BIB_ID
293705
Accession number
MA 47.24
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Display Date
[1793 Aug. 30].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
"Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn -- To its ain tune" first line: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled.
"Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn -- To its ain tune" here without edits and as published.
Part of a large collection of letters from Robert Burns to George Thomson. Items are described individually; see collection record (MA 47 and MA 50) for more information.
With notes in Thomson's hand.
"Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn -- To its ain tune" here without edits and as published.
Part of a large collection of letters from Robert Burns to George Thomson. Items are described individually; see collection record (MA 47 and MA 50) for more information.
With notes in Thomson's hand.
Summary
Discussing his own "pretensions to musical taste" as "merely a few of Nature's instincts, untaught & untutored by Art," noting that his taste differs from that of the "Connisseurs," such as Thomson. Mentioning that "where much of the merit lies in Counterpoint, however they may transport & ravish the ears of you, Connoisseurs, affect my simple lug no otherwise than merely a melodious Din," and praising "little melodies, which the learned Musician despises as silly & insipid." Discussing his inspiration to write "Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn" and giving those verses. With a postscript discussing the tune for these verses.
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