Archives and Manuscript Catalogue

Scope and Contents What Alexander Skinner presented was, it seems, the blank volume, cf. MS.3745. The music was almost certainly written by Duncan Campbell.According to a note (folio ii) by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society, Duncan Campbell left at least two manuscripts, one referred to simply as Duncan Campbell's Manuscript in the publications of the Piobaireachd Society, the other, this, an incomplete and probably unrevised copy of the first. The...

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This is the earliest known manuscript of pipe-music in which modern staff notation is used. It is now known as the Highland Society of London's manuscript and is described in Book I (1925) of the Piobaireachd Society's publications (page ii, number 2).

At the beginning of the volume is a note on the manuscript by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society (folio iii verso).

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Donald Dow died in Glasgow in 1892, aged 56.

Scope and Contents Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....

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A collection of Piobaireachd and other music, consisting of bound books, groups of unbound sheets, and disparate sheets. Includes "Captain Chisholm's manuscript", possibly one of the oldest manuscripts of Ceòl Beag.

The descriptions are taken from an assessment made by Dr Roderick Cannon.

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The contents are as follows: Piobaireachd manuscript, 1859-1869, of Colin Cameron, piper to the Duke of Fife, and son of Donald Cameron, piper to Seaforth (MS.3745), 80 frames;

Alexander Skinner's manuscript of Piobaireachd, so-called from the inscription 'Presented to Mr. Duncan Campbell, Piper to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe, by Alex. Skinner, Teacher of Dancing ... London, June 15, 1855', [1855, or after] (MS.3746), 72 frames.

Scope and Contents The volume, that is, the blank volume, was presented to Donald Cameron by Alexander Corbit, 5 May 1859; and Donald may have written the first few pages. But most of the volume, according to a note (folio i) by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society, appears to have been written by Colin Cameron; the last piobaireachd is described as having been 'noted by Colin Cameron, Nov. 22nd 1869' (folio 77 verso).The sources of the first 46 tunes are...

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The tunes were selected, according to Angus Mackay's own note (folio ii), 'from the original manuscript in his possession as noted down by him [in staff notation] from the Canntaireachd of John Mackay his father from the year 1826 to 1840'. These 'original MSS' are the first two of the six described in 'The history and art of Angus Mackay', numbers 5-7; see MSS.3753-3754.