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Microfilm of Kilberry book of piobaireachd. Papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus, numbers 148-290.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.951-952
Dates:
[?1892-?1958.]
Music and other papers of John Davidson and James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22076-22077
Dates:
1896, 1917, 1922, undated.
Music book, compiled apparently towards the end of the eighteenth century, containing dances, marches and some songs.
File
Identifier: MS.21752
Scope and Contents
The owner is not known, but was presumably a resident of Edinburgh (folios 30 verso, 31). Eight printed songs and a fragment of a ninth, all datable to the last decade of the eighteenth century, have been tipped in at folios 62-79, which have been cut down to stubs for the purpose. Folios 80-81 also are cut down, but nothing has been attached to them. A march written apparently in the owner's hand is pasted to folio 80. The owner's incomplete pagination has been ignored. The book was...
Dates:
Late 18th century.