Abstract
Contents: Introduction 'Never hitherto published': preserving the Highland heritage 'The aera of Scotish music and Scotish song is now passed': Lowland song collecting, c. 1780-1800 'To take down a melody': travel in pursuit of song 'Leaving the world to find out whether they are old or new': invention or fakery? 'Which many a bard had chanted many a day': paratextual imagery and metaphors in Romantic Celtic song collections Illustrations and notes: Stenhouse's and Hogg's quest for origins, c. 1820 Increasing the knowledge and improving the taste, c. 1830-1850 'The feelings of a Scotsman' and the illusion of origins in the later 19th century Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index.
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