Sometime in the early nineteenth century, most likely in the
year 1818, the Reverend Robert Scott, minister of the parish of
Glenbuchat in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, compiled a collection of
traditional ballads that until now has not been published. Most of
the ballad collections produced during the Scottish Romantic
Revival were eventually anthologized in Francis James Child's
seminal "English and Scottish Popular Ballads" (five volumes,
1882-96). Yet, the Glenbuchat manuscripts, containing sixty-eight
ballads in four folio volumes, were not included in Child's
volumes. The complete work only came to light in 1949 when it was
donated to the Special Collections of the Aberdeen University
Library by a descendent of the original compiler.
Scott did not give the precise locations of where he collected
his ballads or name the performers, but the texts are unique and
appear to have been drawn from oral sources. As such, the ballads
reveal a great deal about the nature of traditional music at the
time they were collected.
"The Glenbuchat Ballads" were originally prepared for
publication by David Buchan, one of the leading ballad scholars of
the twentieth century. Upon Buchan's death, his former student
James Moreira took up and completed his work and wrote the detailed
introductory essay and annotations in this volume.
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