Appendix B provides musical notation for the songs in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine for which Hogg published music in Blackwood's or for which Hogg identified the name of a traditional tune to which the song should be sung. Hogg composed original music for at least four of the songs in Blackwood’s. For each of eight other songs, Hogg identified an appropriate traditional tune that fit his lyrics. Blackwood's published the musical notation for the melody line for five songs, all of which appeared in the Noctes Ambrosianæ. Musical notation in Appendix B for the songs published in Blackwood's follows the notation in the magazine. For the songs for which a tune is only named, for consistency the present edition follows the Blackwood's practice of publishing only the melody line. The primary source for the tunes named but not published by Hogg is James Johnson, The Scots Musical Museum Consisting of Six Hundred Scots Songs with proper Bases for the Piano Forte &c., 6 vols (Edinburgh, 1787– 1803). Robert Burns was the main contributor of songs to The Scots Musical Museum. A facsimile reprint of the 1853 edition of The Scots Musical Museum has been edited with an introduction by Donald A. Low (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1991). The 1853 edition retains the numbering and pagination of the original six-volume publication.

In the annotations that follow, the page numbers following the title of the song refer to the printed work in the present edition. The reader is directed to the Notes to each work in the present edition for additional information.