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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.
Microfilm of Panmure music books.
Music book, compiled apparently towards the end of the eighteenth century, containing dances, marches and some songs.
Music book compiled by J Crichton Donaldson.
Music book of John Thompson Smith containing dance and song tunes for the German flute, 1810, and at the back, for the Spanish guitar, 1826.
Some music has been written in a later (possibly a child's) hand at folio 20.
Leaves have been torn out before folios 13, 22, 23, 26, and 28, and folios 13-19, 21-28 are blank.
Music book of Leonora Grant consisting of leaves and gatherings of leaves containing dances, marches and songs, bound together inside a pair of hard covers.
Music book of simple treble notation, containing marches, dances and songs, which appears to have been owned successively by Francis and John Hughes, whose names are written at the front and back of the book respectively.
Francis Hughes appears to have been the first owner and to have written most of the pieces; a tune apparently entitled 'March y[e] 21:' (folio 16 verso) is described as having been 'Perform:[d] at the Kings Coronation', apparently that of George III, in September 1761. The signature of John Hughes appears inside the back cover, and, dated 1768, at folio i (inverted). Most of the pieces at the back of the volume are religious. The book appears to lack a leaf before folio 1.
Music book of unknown ownership containing operatic arias, Scottish and other songs, marches and psalm tunes.
The paper is watermarked 1797 and the pieces appear to be written in a contemporary hand. An engraved preliminary leaf (with a large space for the owner's name, etc.) is at folio i. Leaves have been cut or torn out after folios i, 30 and 39, and folios 38 and 39 were formerly stuck together with wax seals.
Music book, undated, compiled in the north of England, consisting of various gatherings of sheets bound together, containing dances, songs and marches (including a number of Scottish tunes), and some other music, all written in a number of hands.
None of the pieces is dated, but some of the sheets have watermarks ranging in date from 1817 to 1825. The last third of the volume is blank.
Included are four unidentified sonatas for two flutes (folios 52-56).
Music books and papers of Robert Moir (died 1869), who was President of the Edinburgh Church-Music Society and subsequently Conductor of Music at St Magnus' Cathedral, Kirkwall.
Music books belonging to a member, or members, of the family of James Sanderson, a surgeon in the Madras Army; with a song setting and verses, undated, written on sheets formerly loosely inserted in MS.22167.
Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.
Nineteenth-century copies of songs, dances, and other tunes, both traditional and contemporary, made by members, relatives, and friends of the family of Brown, residing at Linkwood, Elgin.
The music is chiefly arranged for pianoforte, except MS.3378, which is for violin.
Papers of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940).
Photocopies of a collection of music books.
Most of the music books are of unknown ownership but all may be of northern Scottish provenance. They are all undated but appear to belong to the first half of the nineteenth century.