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Operatic, instrumental, and vocal music by Learmont Drysdale (died 1909), much of it in the composer's autograph.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3199-3216
Dates:
Late 19th century-1909.
Papers of and concerning the poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26721-26792
Scope and Contents
Born in Elderslie and educated in Tarbert Loch Fyne, Edinburgh and Oxford, George Campbell Hay spent most of his life in Edinburgh, but preserved a lifelong attachment to Kintyre, and in particular to Tarbert.
Much of his poetry is a celebration of Kintyre, the land and its people, particularly the fishermen. Most of these poems had been written between 1938 and 1945 and already published in periodicals; they include translations from eleven languages. Hay's most important work,...
Dates:
[Circa 1925]-1987, undated.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.9.1-81.9.12
Dates:
Late 17th century-?1829.
Papers of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940).
Series
Identifier: MSS.14884-14889
Scope and Contents
Gaelic manuscripts of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940), third daughter of John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray, 7th duke of Atholl (1840-1917). Having learned Gaelic in her youth, she collected 240 Gaelic folk tales in Perthshire (the manuscripts now held in Blair Castle), and also left behind notebooks of Gaelic songs and other Gaelic material. The contents are as follows.MS.14884. Songs copied from McLagan Collection; small collection of hymns...
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Papers of Thomas H Collinson, organist of St Mary's (Episcopal) Cathedral and conductor of the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union.
File
Identifier: MS.21880
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Unfinished copy of 'Thou O God art praised in Sion' (Psalm 65) by Thomas H Collinson, an exercise for the degree of Bachelor of Music, Oxford, 1877 (folio 1), followed by drafts of several of the sections (folio 68). The unfinished parts of the scoring have been supplied in pencil, apparently by the composer's son Francis M Collinson. Folios 21-24 appear to be from an earlier copy in the composer's autograph.(ii) Setting for choir and...
Dates:
1877-1928, undated.
Photocopy of manuscript draft of song of Robert Burns, "She says She Lo`es Me Best of a`".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8079
Scope and Contents
24 lines in two stanzas, written in pencil.
Dates:
circa 1780-circa 1796.
Photocopy of manuscript setting of song of Francis George Scott, "Je Descendis dans mon Jardin".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7572
Dates:
1931.
Photocopy of the autograph score of ‘Five preludes for piano from a Brittany sketch book', an apparently unpublished work, undated, by Isobel V S Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: MS.22146
Dates:
?Mid 20th century.
Photostats and original manuscripts of Scottish music.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1781-1784
Dates:
17th century-1900.
Printed proof of “Carle, now the King’s come!”, with corrections in Sir Walter Scott’s autograph, followed by a manuscript Latin version of the song [?1822].
Series
Identifier: MSS.1665-1666
Dates:
1822, undated.
Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21983-22014
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 20th century, undated.
Small collections and single letters presented by various donors.
Series
Identifier: MS.5406
Dates:
1810-1897.
'The Carver Choirbook', a sixteenth-century manuscript also known as the 'Scone Antiphonary'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.15
Scope and Contents
Choirbook produced in Scotland containing polyphonic settings for Masses, Magnificats, motets, with other various fragments. The manuscript contains works by Carver himself and by other composers of the period, including Dufay, Nesbett, Lambe, Cornysh (Senior), and Fayrfax. The volume was previously thought to have been copied by Carver at the Abbey of Scone, but scholars now agree that it was probably written at the Chapel Royal at Stirling. Not all of the compositions are complete and the...
Dates:
16th century
Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Twenty songs and choruses of George Frideric Handel, composer.
Item
Identifier: MS.6301 [BH.Add.48]
Scope and Contents
The works are from the oratorios "Alexander's Feast", 'Samson', 'Deborah', 'Occasional Oratorio', 'Saul', 'Susanna', 'Judas Maccabaeus', and the "Ode for St Cecilia's Day", in vocal score; with two marches, from the 'Occasional Oratorio', and 'Judas Maccabaeus', arranged for keyboard. They are written in a professional hand, and most of them include a note of performance time.
The music begins on folio 7, the preceding folios containing a contents list.
Dates:
1733-1749.
Typescript libretto and manuscript musical sketches for opera of Learmont Drysdale, "Flora Macdonald".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4694
Scope and Contents
With manuscript arrangements of eight Scots songs.
Dates:
circa 1903.
Various single and small quantities of musical compositions and letters of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MS.22078
Dates:
1870-1924, undated.