Perhaps J. Scott Skinner's most respected compilation. The Harp and Claymore was first published in 1903. This version come from Cape Breton and is a great addition to any collection of music books. A classic collection, recently reprinted, is comprised of pastorals, marches, strathspeys and reels, hornpipes, laments and songs in memory of a romantic and patriotic past. Music is provided for voice, violin, bagpipe and piano.

Letter from the late Dr. Blackie to Mr J Scott Skinner as reproduced in The Harp and Claymore:

9 Douglas Crescent.
Edinburgh,
10th November 1890

My Dear Sir,
I am delighted to learn that you intend to favour the world with a collection of your Pastoral Melodies, and other pieces of genuine Scottish music.
There can be no doubt that, of all the rich inheritances which under Providence Scotland has to boast of from the past, there is none more valuable than our National Song and National Music; and to hand down to the men of the future in all its fullness and purity this rich legacy from the past, must be regarded as one of the most sacred duties of the present. Whatever beauties in Music and the Fine Arts may be borrowed from abroad – and no doubt there are many – there is a charm about the native product with which the foreign can no more compete than the growth of the Alpine forests can rival the grace of the birch in our Scottish glens, or the glory of the purple heather on the hills. Every distinct type of people has its own strong points, which it cannot neglect without paying the double penalty of weakness at home and contempt from abroad.
With the warmest wishes for your success in the culture of our Native Scottish Music in all its variety.

I am,
Dear Sir,
Yours sincerely,
John S. Blackie