Dunfermline for reinterment beside the high altar, in 1250, describes the procession of priests and abbots, by whom the ceremony was conducted, as accompanied by the sounds of the organ, as well as the chanting of the choir. Mr. Tytler, the author of a "Dissertation on Scottish Music," fell into a strange error, representing James I of Scotland as the first introducer of the organ into that country; when all that he actually did, as Mr. Dauney has pointed out,[1] was to introduce organs of an improved construction. The principal churches and abbeys of Scotland had most probably been furnished with them more or less from the era to which I have referred. The Chapel Royal at Stirling, founded by James III, to all appearance upon the model of that of Edward IV, was a very complete and richly endowed ecclesiastical establishment for the cultivation of church music; and several entries of sums laid out by the Scottish sovereigns in the upholding of
- ↑ "Ancient Melodies of Scotland," 4to, 1838.
