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Agnes Hume`s music book.
Airs of songs and ballads collected, chiefly in Buchan, with a few from Angus and elsewhere, by George Riddell, Rosehearty (died 1942).
Accounts of George Riddel's life will be found in MS.3042, inside the front cover.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Annotated copy of J L Campbell and Francis Collinson, "Hebridean Folksongs" (1969).
With five letters, 1979, of Campbell to Collinson.
Annotated draft of `the Pibroch of Donuil Dhu` of Walter Scott.
Arrangement, in a nineteenth-century hand, for two pianofortes, of Concerto Number 3 in G major from the set of six Concerti Grossi by George Frideric Handel first published in 1734.
Arrangements of the song "Balulalow" for voice and piano, and for strings, by Peter Warlock.
Audio cassette of a sound recording of "Skuil-Bairns Sing", a collection of Scots nursery rhymes, songs and poems, presented by children of Gourock Primary School.
Audio cassette, "Wee Willie Winkie and ither Weans: Scots Songs Sung by a Choir from Hillhead High School".
Title from the label.
Audio cassettes of recordings of the works of William Soutar, produced by Scotsoun.
Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.
A leaf is torn out after folio 16.
What appears to be an extract from ‘Variazioni’ by Luciano Berio is written at folio 20.
Autograph manuscript of `The fair Unfortunate; or, the Tragedy of Jane Douglas, the Lady Glamis’, an unpublished drama in blank verse by Alexander Campbell, the editor Of ‘Albyn’s Anthology’.
The manuscript is undated, but another hand has added the date 27 November, 1819 (folio 89 verso).
Two sheets of musical accompaniment to songs in the text have been inserted (folios 41, 51).
Tipped in at the front of the volume is a letter, 1821, from the proprietors of Covent Garden Theatre, rejecting the play.
Autograph manuscript, undated, of 'Three Scottish songs' arranged for voices, strings, piano and timpani by Gordon Jacob.
Autograph musical scores of David Dorward containing sketches and some final versions of works for various combinations of instruments, including voices.
Two of the pieces are dated 1961 and 1967. The remainder, though undated, appear to have been written at about the same period.
Autograph score, 1953, of ‘Sonata for violoncello and piano’ by Hans Gál.
The score bears a few corrections, one of which is written on a scrap of paper (folio 13) pasted to folio 14. Folio 15 consists of two leaves pasted together.
Autograph score of the overture “Tam o' Shanter”, Opus 51, by Malcolm Arnold, bearing several marks from use in performance.
Autograph score of 'Three Songs of Night' for baritone and strings, composed by Leon Coates from ‘Pomes Penyeach’ by James Joyce, for the Music Society of St Peter's College, Oxford.
Autograph score of William Wallace, "Songs by Heine".
Presentation autograph score of William Wallace's arrangements for voice and piano of six poems by Heinrich Heine. Dated 1888, and inscribed to "Mrs Young". Contains arrangements of the following: 1. Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen; 2. Wenn zwei von einander scheiden; 3. Ich hab im Traume geweinet; 4. Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen; 5. Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; 6. Mädchen mit dem rothen Mündchen.
Autograph scores of musical compositions by David Stephen, Director of Music to the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Autograph second draft with alterations and additions of short score of Concerto for String Orchestra, opus 39, by Kenneth Leighton, when Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Autograph settings by Robin Orr of “The Kimmers o' Cougate” and Three Songs of Innocence by William Blake.
Autograph vocal scores of works by Hamish MacCunn.
Band parts of Scottish dance tunes originally the property of Jockie Reid, a dance band leader and dancing instructor.
Each volume contains a number of additional pieces on loose sheets which have been tipped in, but the latter half of each volume is blank.