The British Musical Biography

[E] Stenhouse, William, writer and col-
lector, born in Roxburghshire in 1773. He
was by profession an accountant in Edinburgh.
He died at Edinburgh, November 10, 1827.
Published " Illustrations of the Lyric Poetry
and Alusic of Scotland.." Edinburgh, 1839.
Second edition by David Laing, LL.D.,
Edinburgh, 1853. This was intended as a
series of annotations for Johnson's " Scots
Musical Museum," and has proved a quarry
for all subsequent students of Scots music.
Many of Stenhouse's alleged inaccuracies,
which Chappell and others have mentioned
in contemptuous terms, turn out, on investi-
gation by later and more painstaking students,
to be perfectly correct statements. The work
generally is not commendable on the score of
correctness.

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