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Music manuscripts of Tom McCourt.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10612
Scope and Contents

Mostly in connection with ballad operas.

Dates: 2nd half of 20th century

Music of Robert Crawford for string quartet.

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Identifier: MS.21975
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Autograph draft of String Quartet Number 1, opus 4 (folio 1), apparently begun in 1948 and completed in 1950 (folio 34 verso). The quartet was published in 1953. The music at folios 1-15 corresponds to the first two movements and that at folios 16-18, 19 to pages 17-19, 22-23 of the 3rd movement in the published score. The music at folios 20-30 seems to form no part of the published score, whilst that at folios 31-34, which is numbered 6, appears...
Dates: 1948-1957.

Original manuscript of "The Ship o' the Fiend", a ballad for Orchestra, Opus 5, composed by Hamish MacCunn.

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Identifier: MS.3365
Scope and Contents

The ballad is preceded by a version, in Hamish MacCunn's hand, of the verse ballad that inspired the music, i.e., 'The Daemon Lover', number 243 of ‘The English and Scottish popular ballads’. A pencilled note records two performances in 1888.

Dates: [1888, or before.]

Papers from the library of St Benedict`s Abbey, Fort Augustus.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11218
Scope and Contents

Includes:

patristic texts, 1080, of Marianus at Regensburg

"Rule of St Benedict", 15th century

Book of Hours, late 15th century, with the signature of Mary of Guise

fragments of music, 15th century to 16th century, from the Inverness song-school

Dates: 11th century to early 18th century.

Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6878 Box 1(1)-Box 13(30)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.

Dates: 1933-1961, undated.

Papers of Sir George Henschel.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6211/1-23
Scope and Contents

Comprising manuscript scores of musical compositions, including the opera "Nubia", concert programmes, press notices, and letters and copies of letters to Henschel from correspondents including: Princess Louise, A J Balfour, Gordon Bottomley, and Sir D Y Cameron.

Dates: 1879-1934.

Photocopies of autograph scores of four choral works by Shena Fraser.

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Identifier: MS.22147
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'Carillon’, a choral suite for women's or school choir and keyboard, 1956, which was published in 1958 (folio 1);(ii) 'To him give praise’, a choral suite for women's voices, strings and piano, 1959, which was published 1960 (folio 49);(iii) 'I saw a fair maiden’, for soprano, alto, tenor and bass, with tenor solo, which was published 1965 (folio 75); (iv) 'A quartette of carols', for treble voices and piano,...
Dates: 1956-[1965, or before], undated.

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Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 4
Coles, Cecil Frederick, composer, 1888-1918 2
Harper, Edward, composer, 1941-2009 2
MacDonald, Donald, piper and bagpipe maker, ? 1766-1840 2
Soutar, William (poet) 2
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Adair, Murray M W, Edinburgh, fl 1973-1974 1
Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour (statesman) 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Boult, Sir Adrian Cedric, Knight, conductor, 1889-1983 1
Busoni, Dante Michaelangelo Benvenuto Ferruccio, composer, 1866-1924 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Campbell, Jean, harpist and teacher, fl 1959-1973 1
Campen, Ank Van, harpist, 1932-2010 1
Cannon, Angus F, piper, 9th Battalion, Royal Scots, fl 1900-1916 1
Coles, Penny Catherine, daughter of Cecil F, composer, 1917-2003. 1
Cook, Elizabeth Crosby, Hassocks, Sussex, fl 1979-1981: recipient 1
Crawford, Robert Caldwell, composer, 1925-2012 1
Dare, Marie, composer, 1902-1976 1
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 1
Douglas, James, composer, b 1932 1
Edinburgh International Festival 1
Ernest, Gustav, composer of "Fantasia ed Fuga Dramatica", fl 1939 1
Gardner, Archibald Ward, physician, 1923-1994 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Hallgrímson, Haflidi, composer, b 1941 1
Henschel, Sir George, Knight, musician, formerly Isidor Georg, 1850-1934 1
Hunter, Andrew R, Rosyth, fl 1979-1980 1
King, Geoffrey, composer, b 1949 1
Lawson, A J, composer, fl 1991 1
Louise Caroline Alberta, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 1848-1939 1
Mac an t-Saoir, Donnchadh Bàn, poet, ? 1723-1812 1
Mary, Queen Consort of James V, King of Scotland, 1515-1560. 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McCourt, Thomas M, composer, fl 1951-1986 1
McGuire, Edward, composer, b 1948 1
McLeod, John, composer, b 1934 1
McQuaid, John, composer, 1909-2004 1
Meldrum, Robert, Pipe Major, 1851-1941 1
Menuhin, Yehudi, Baron Menuhin, violinist and conductor, 1916-1999 1
Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 1
Musgrave, Thea, composer, b 1928 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
Orr, Robert Kemsley, composer, 1909-2006 1
Porteous, Norman, composer, fl 1930-1932 1
Robertson, William, musician, fl 1811: transcriber 1
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 1
Scottus, Marianus, founder of Irish Benedictine house at Ratisbon, d c 1080-1083 1
Shanks, Alastair, Port Ellen, Islay, fl 1969-1983 1
St Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus 1
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 1
Stirling Festival 1
Stirling, Frances E Moray-, of Abercairnie, née Douglas, fl 1813. 1
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel, author and philologist, 1892-1973 1
Watterston, William Arnot, Secretary of University College, Dundee, 1855-1927: collector 1
Whyte, Ian, composer and conductor, 1901-1960 1
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