See, I'm Looking for this Old Scottish Song ...

A few years ago, the National Library of Scotland ran a pilot project to start indexing Scottish songs in early printed collections.  Sadly, the test project didn't carry on to finish indexing every Scottish song in their collections, but it's still a useful resource.  (Further funding would be required to see the whole thing through.)

• Click here to access the Scottish Song Index Pilot Database.
• Introduction to the Pilot Project

We understand that the pilot database includes about 350 incipit titles and around 20,000 bibliographic title references. However, we don't know how many publications are completely listed in the pilot.

• Visit the National Library of Scotland Music Collections page here.
• Free access to the NLS Digital Gallery of music and much, much more - here.