^{page no 57 note 1} ‘Perhaps’ because high claims have recently been advanced on behalf of an even obscurer figure, the Aberdeenshire composer Ronald Center, who died in 1973 at the age of 60 leaving a fairly substantial output of which all but one item remains unpublished. The few pieces I have heard or seen suggest a strongly individual personality who may have approached the level of Scott's achievement in areas where Scott was himself no contender, notably chamber and piano music. The mid-1950's Piano Sonata, which I heard in Edinburgh recently played by Ronald Stevenson, is a striking work of great rhythmic verve and technical sophistication, in an idiom that recalls Bartok but informed by a quite independent structural imagination.

^{page no 58 note 1} Practically all the songs mentioned above have recently been republished in Songs of Francis George Scon 1880–1958: a centenary alburn of 41 songs for solo voice and piano selected and edited by Mackay, Neil (Roberton Publications)Google Scholar; and the rest will be found in Thirty-five Scottish Lyrics and Other Poems, still available from The Saltire Society, Saltire House, Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh Google Scholar.