Excerpt from Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc, Vol. 1 of 2: Collected From Memory, Tradition, and Ancient Authors Every nation, at leafl every ancient and un mixed nation, hath its peculiar flyle of mufical expreflion, its peculiar mode of melody; modu lated by the joint influence of climate and govern ment, character and fituation, as well as by the formation of the organs. Thus each of the ftates of ancient Greece had its charaeteriitic ite of muhe, the Doric, the Phrygian, the Lydian mood, &c., and thus the modems have their di t'rine'c national ftyles, the Italian, the Spanifh, the Irifh, and the Scottifh. That predilection fo na tural for every produetion Of one's own country. 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.