The Tea-Table Miscellany
- Author: Ramsay, Allan
- Editor: Pittock, Murray
- Editor: Robertson-Kirkland, Brianna E.
The Tea-Table Miscellany
- Author: Ramsay, Allan
- Editor: Pittock, Murray
- Editor: Robertson-Kirkland, Brianna E.
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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. TTM 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.
Contents
- AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsGeneral Editor’s PrefaceBiography of Allan Ramsay TEXTIntroductionTea-Table Miscellany I (1723)Tea-Table Miscellany II (1726)Tea-Table Miscellany III (1727)Tea-Table Miscellany IV (1737) NOTESPreliminary Matter Sources for the
- Appendix 1:
- Preface to 1729 edition
- Appendix 2: Descriptive
- Bibliography
- Appendix 3: List of Persons
- Appendix 4: Alexander Law’s list of variants between the 1723 and 1724 editions
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index of First Lines
