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Microfilm of xerox of a manuscript music book containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.743
Dates:
1816, 1825.
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
Mid 20th century-1988, undated.
Photocopies of a collection of music books.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21777-21783
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
Photocopy of "W.R. Kinnear's pipe-music book. A choice selection of strathspeys [and] reels".
Item
Identifier: MS.22129
Scope and Contents
It would appear, from notes at folio 3, that W R Kinnear was a piper in the 92nd Foot, and that the music book was written, or at least begun, not long before 1863.
Dates:
[Before 1863.]
Xeroxes of three manuscript music books containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane of Torloisk, Mull.
Series
Identifier: MS.14949(a)-(c)
Scope and Contents
The airs in the music books are drawn from a broad range of cultures, including Gaelic.
Dates:
1808-1825.