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fession" to finish their education, " till within the memory of persons still living," so says the Jamieson above referred to. Robert jamieson published several works on Border and Scottish Minstrelsy. He was born about 1780 and died 1844. It is needless to add that the natives of Southern Scotland also took advantage of the same high educational academies which were so celebrated in Ireland at one time. Ireland decidedly gave its music to Scotland, and thence it may be traced in the modern history of the art imparting much of its beauty and sweetness to Italy. According to the poet Tassoni the ancient music of the Irish or Scotch (Ireland, by the way, was originally called Scotia, that is, the land of the Scots or Gaedhils—and the term was then [about the year 900] applied only to Erinn) and particularly to the compositions of the first James of Scot-land, was imitated by Gesualdus, the chief of the Italian composers and greatest musical reformer of the sixteenth century. The famous Geminiani frequently declared that the works of Gesualdus were his first and principal study. Hence, prob-ably, his acknowledged partiality for Irish music and his well known admiration of the bard O'Carolan. Geminiani declared " that we have in the dominions of Great Britain no original
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