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"Centenary Fanfare for the Scottish National Portrait Gallery", for brass quintet, by John Maxwell Geddes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10162
Dates:
1989.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Hunting of the Hare` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 973) (folio 1), followed by a mock sermon in prose (folio 7 verso) and nonsense verses (folio 10 verso) (the latter ‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 3425, both printed in ‘Reliquiae Antiquae’, volume 1, pages 82-84). See ‘The “Hunting of the Hare” in the Heege Manuscript’. Written by Richard Heeg.(ii) `Sir Gowther` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’,...
Dates:
Circa 1480.
Contemporary copy of the score of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21857-21858
Dates:
1853.
Copies of musical and literary works of Robert Gordon Milne.
File
Identifier: Acc.10724
Dates:
1952-1955 and undated.
Copies of the piping manuscripts of Angus F Cannon, piper in the 9th Battalion, Royal Scots.
File
Identifier: Acc.9950
Dates:
circa 1910-1916.
Copy in a contemporary hand of the score of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi.
Item
Identifier: MS.21856
Scope and Contents
‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi was first performed in 1853.
Dates:
1853.
Copy in an apparently twentieth-century hand of the piano score of ‘Don Quichotte’, a ballet by Petipa to music by Minkus, which was first performed in 1869.
Item
Identifier: MS.21860
Scope and Contents
The markings and deletions in pencil and crayon are presumably in the hand of Th. Wassileff, whose name is stamped on the flyleaf and elsewhere in the score.
Dates:
[?1869.]
Copy of an extract of an opera of Simone Mayr, "Ginevra di Scozia".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7302
Dates:
1816.
Copy of "Brian O`Duff`s Lament - Tumilin O`Counichan", an Irish pibroch, transcribed by Alistair Campsie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12678
Dates:
1997.
Copy of ‘Pièces en trio pour les flutes, violon et dessus de viole’ by Marin Marais.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21843-21845
Dates:
1692.
Copy of "The Strachan Collection" of bagpipe melodies, collected and compiled by D A Will, Winnipeg.
File
Identifier: Acc.9734
Dates:
circa 1984.
Corrected autograph score of Edward McGuire, "Euphoria - a Sense of Well-Being", for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion.
File
Identifier: Acc.10795
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of the final version of the work and tape recording of its first performance, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1980.
Corrected full score of 'Thomas the Rhymer', an opera in four acts by David Johnson.
File
Identifier: MS.22152
Scope and Contents
The opera is based on the Border ballad collected by Sir Walter Scott (folio 1).Of the many corrections the most substantial are the additional leaves at folios 11, 21, 35, 38 (formerly stapled to folio 39), 45 (formerly stapled to folio 44) 46, 53-54, 57 and 100 (formerly stapled to folio 101). Leaves are cut out after folio 80 and 108.The score is preceded by a typed press release (folio i) and a printed programme (folio iii) of the premiere, which was performed in...
Dates:
1974-1976.
Corrected music manuscript, "Zehn variationen per piano", of Ferrucio Buscomi.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11568
Dates:
1922.
Correspondence and papers of William Baird Ross.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11235
Dates:
1895-1950 and undated.
Correspondence of Ronald Stevenson addressed to Roger Duce, with a composition dedicated to Duce.
File
Identifier: Acc.14286
Content Description
A small collection of correspondence of Roger Duce, former curator of music collections at the National Library of Scotland. Contains:Christmas card, 1990, home-made with two lines of music to the words "Blessed are the peacemakers", to Roger Duce and his family from Ronald and Marjorie Stevenson. Together with the manuscript score of a composition for the piano, 19 bars, entitled "Homage to Roger Duce : Passaggiata del Bibliotecario (a Satiesque Satire)", with a theme built on...
Dates:
1990-1999
Cyclostyled pipe music formerly used by the band of the Glasgow Highland Club.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9735
Dates:
1939.
Draft and completed musical scores, including the symphony "The Creation", by William Wallace.
File
Identifier: Acc.12120
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and papers on musical controversies.
Dates:
circa 1896-1929.
Drafts and corrected typescripts of "The Seven Deadly Sins: a Mask", libretto by Robert Nye, music by James Douglas.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6241/1-5
Scope and Contents
With manuscript score of the music, and correspondence concerning the work and its performance at the Stirling Festval, 1973, and Edinburgh International Festival, 1974.
Dates:
1973-1974.
Drafts and sketches of the "Organ Sonata" by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
File
Identifier: Acc.9982
Dates:
1982.
Eight volumes of music for bagpipes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11516
Scope and Contents
One volume may be in the hand of Angus Mackay.
Dates:
19th century.
Facsimile of chorus part of acts I-III of 'Christian the pilgrim', an opera, undated, by James A Moonie, with words adapted by George Peacock from “Pilgrim's progress” by John Bunyan; and a vocal trio from 'A broken coupling', undated, an operetta by Moonie.
File
Identifier: MS.22015
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
'Festival Mass for full orchestra & chorus; a study in instrumentation, composed by William Wallace' (born 1860), in his autograph.
File
Identifier: MS.3089
Scope and Contents
The composer gives a history (folio xiii) of the work, which was composed in 1886-1887 and, in part, scored in 1888 (see dates on various folios). Some parts are incomplete.
Interspersed with the music are unruled leaves, bearing illuminations, manuscript notes of the composer, etc., on folios i-ii, viii, x-xiii, xxv, xxvii verso, xxviii verso, xxxix, xliii, xlvii, li.
Dates:
1886-1888.
Fiddle music manuscript
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Identifier: Acc.13641
Scope and Contents
Contains: 1. A manuscript of fiddle music, second half of the nineteenth century, containing many pieces of north-eastern Scottish origin, and some by William Marshall; incomplete at the beginning, pages numbered 9-40, [2]. 2. An arrangement for voice and piano, by the same scribe, of William Wadsworth Longfellow`s poem "The Bridge", beg. "I stood on the bridge at midnight". 3. Correspondence, 1977, between A.C.F. Masson, Elgin, and Ian Grant Smith, Edinburgh, with a photocopy of a letter,...
Dates:
Later 19th century