Excerpt from Kyle's Scottish Lyric Gems: A Collection of the Songs of Scotland, Original and Selected, With New and Appropriate Symphonies and Accompaniments for the Pianoforte Of the antiquity of the music of Scotland we have every proof - and there 'is no question but we owe -many of our best old melodies to wandering minstrels who, long before the iron age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.