Note: the abbreviations follow the forms in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. The dating is normally that of publication or, if unpublished, that of the manuscript. Bracketed entries signify that the material is not taken directly from Macpherson's poems.

Phase 1: ca. 1780–1815

Oithóna (op), François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, 1768

Oithona (op), Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, 1768

“Darthulas Grabes-Gesang” (v, acc) Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, 1774 (MS; v, fp acc, 1782)

“Selmar und Selma” (v, kbd); “Selma und Selmar” (v, kbd); “Ullin zum tapfern Carthon” (v, kbd), Christian Gottlob Neefe, 1776

Darthula (2 vv, orch), Thomas Linley the Younger, ca. 1776

“Dauras Trauer” (v, kbd), Seckendorff, 1779

“Selma und Selmar” (v, pf), Johann Friedrich Reichardt, 1779

Comala (music drama), Pietro Morandi, 1780

“Selma” (v, pf), Reichardt, 1780

Colma (monodrama), Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, 1780

“Songs of Ardven, no. 2: Sung before Fingal, in the Hall of Selma” (S, A, B vv, 2 vns, fp or org), Anon., ca. 1780

“Ossians Sonnengesang” (v, kbd), Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, 1782, 1803

“Darthulas Grabes-Gesang” (v, kbd), Seckendorff, 1782

Fingal in Lochlin (incid music), Rust, 1782

Inamorulla oder Ossians Grosmuth (incid music), Rust, 1783

“Address to the sun” (glee), John Wall Callcott, 1783

“Ossians Sonnengesang” (v, kbd), Johann Friedrich Christmann, 1785 [cf. Zumsteeg 1782]

“I sit by the mossy fount” (v, kbd), [melody from Franz Josef Haydn], 1787

Komala (Spl), Friedrich Boutterweck, 1788

Calto (music drama), Francesco Bianchi, 1788

“The Maid of Selma” (v, fig bass), James Oswald, 1788

“Song of Selma” (v, fig bass), Oswald, 1788

“Ode from Ossian's Poems” (v, harpd/pf), Francis Hopkinson, 1788

“Minonas Gesang” (v, kbd), Reichardt, 1788

Duntalmo (music drama), Luigi Caruso, 1789

“Ossian auf Slimora” (v, kbd), Zumsteeg, 1790, 1803

“Song of Selma” (duet, fig bass), Oswald, 1790

“Some of my heroes are low” (glee, 5 vv), R. J. S. Stevens, 1790

Colma (music drama), William Bach, 1791