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Papers of Francis Collinson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8985
Scope and Contents
Includes music manuscripts, research papers and correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1920-1983.
Papers of Hector MacFadyen of Pennyghael.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8930
Scope and Contents
Includes music and historical notes on piping.
Dates:
20th century.
Papers of Isobel V S Dunlop, containing correspondence, music, poetry and related material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9121/1-133
Scope and Contents
Includes music scores, correspondence and papers concerning the Saltire Society and Saltire Music Group.
Dates:
1922-1974.
Papers of John MacCallum, policeman, Glasgow.
File
Identifier: Acc.12529
Scope and Contents
Includes Gaelic songs and music.
Dates:
circa 1890-1925.
Papers of John Maxwell Geddes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14147
Content Description
John Maxwell Geddes, composer, was born in Glasgow on 26 May 1941, the son of John ('Jack') Drummond Geddes and Thomasina Geddes, née Maxwell. He grew up in the Maryhill area of Glasgow and attended Woodside Secondary School and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). He also studied with the Danish pianist and composer Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000) in Copenhagen.Geddes was awarded the fellowship of the RSAMD, the Creative...
Dates:
1951-2018.
Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21669-21713
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
17th century-1972.
Papers of Sir George Henschel.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6211/1-23
Scope and Contents
Comprising manuscript scores of musical compositions, including the opera "Nubia", concert programmes, press notices, and letters and copies of letters to Henschel from correspondents including: Princess Louise, A J Balfour, Gordon Bottomley, and Sir D Y Cameron.
Dates:
1879-1934.
Papers of the Piobaireachd Society, including correspondence and papers of Archibald Graham Kenneth (Archie Kenneth).
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14539
Content Description
Further papers of the Piobaireachd Society, containing Society business files and a small number of manuscripts and printed books belonging to the Society. The largest part of this collection is formed by the correspondence and papers of Archibald Graham Kenneth (Archie Kenneth), including correspondence with his friend James Campbell, son of Archibald Campbell of Kilberry (1916-2003), and others; papers concerning his editions of some of the Piobaireachd Society music...
Dates:
1940s-1980s.
Papers of the Stewart and Christie families, and concerning the Murdostoun estate.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.164- is now Acc.5058.
Dates:
19th century-20th century.
Part of the full score of the final air of Berlioz, "La Mort de Sardanopale", transcribed with notes probably by Ernest Newman, from the manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5090- is now part of Berlioz Collection.
Dates:
circa 1909.
Parts for Robert Crawford`s musical composition "Hammered Brass".
Item
Identifier: Acc.11357
Scope and Contents
Professional copies corrected by the composer.
Dates:
1995.
Photocopies of a notebook, early 20th century, of piobaireachd of Simon Fraser.
File
Identifier: Acc.11613
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies of letters, 1956-1968, between Pipe Majors William Gray and Hugh Fraser.
Dates:
circa 1900-1968.
Photocopies of autograph scores of four choral works by Shena Fraser.
File
Identifier: MS.22147
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Carillon’, a choral suite for women's or school choir and keyboard, 1956, which was published in 1958 (folio 1);(ii) 'To him give praise’, a choral suite for women's voices, strings and piano, 1959, which was published 1960 (folio 49);(iii) 'I saw a fair maiden’, for soprano, alto, tenor and bass, with tenor solo, which was published 1965 (folio 75); (iv) 'A quartette of carols', for treble voices and piano,...
Dates:
1956-[1965, or before], undated.
Photocopies of fiddle and pipe music, compiled by Sullivan Ross.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8984
Scope and Contents
Contains circa 1450 tunes including 32 piobaireachd.
Dates:
circa 1860-1900.
Photocopy, circa 2006, of three sheets of manuscript music in the hand of Robert Louis Stevenson, comprising the airs "Farewell to Tantira", and "Aberlady Links", and some German leider, circa 1867-1894.
File
Identifier: Acc.12674
Dates:
1867-1894.
Photocopy of a postcard of James Scott Skinner to Tom MacDonald.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7887
Scope and Contents
Containing a score by Scott Skinner of the tune, "The Weeping Birches of Kilmorack".
Dates:
1909.
Photocopy of the autograph score of ‘Five preludes for piano from a Brittany sketch book', an apparently unpublished work, undated, by Isobel V S Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: MS.22146
Dates:
?Mid 20th century.
Photocopy of "Thou O God art Praised in Sion" (an exercise for the degree of Mus Bac, Oxon, 1877) by Thomas H Collinson, father of Francis Collinson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11742
Dates:
1877.
Photocopy of typescript of "The Stick-Up", a play by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with autograph emendations and additions by Robin Orr, being a draft of the libretto of his opera "Full Circle".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10670
Dates:
1961.
Piobaireachd manuscript attributed to Donald MacDonald.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11600
Dates:
early 19th century.
Pìobaireachd music manuscripts and press cuttings
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Identifier: Acc.13535
Scope and Contents
Contains sheet music of bagpipe tunes, and press cuttings of information concerning pìobaireachd and the history of the bagpipe, as well as information and photographs of individual pipers. The compiler, John Alexander Cameron, was a publican in Inverness, and there is a slight Inverness emphasis in the items collected. Arranged in folders as follows:Acc.13535/1: manuscript scores, some printed, of bagpipe tunes. Including "Lament for Lieut Ian B. MacLeod of MacLeod; killed in...
Dates:
1896-1952
Piobaireachd of John A MacLellan, "The Phantom Piper of Corrieyairach" (1969).
File
Identifier: Acc.9230
Scope and Contents
With associated material and a copy of Broadcasting Council for Scotland, "New Pibrochs" (1966).
Dates:
1966-1969.