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Sketches and draft score of Ricercare for clarinet, horn, bassoon, string quartet and bass, by Robert Crawford.
File
Identifier: Acc.9888
Dates:
1986.
String parts for the symphonic poem "Francoys Villon" (1909) by William Wallace.
File
Identifier: Acc.12283
Dates:
circa 1909.
Successive typescript texts, fragmentary notes, and revisions of 'The last heir', a dramatization, in four acts, of ‘The bride of Lammermoor’ by Sir Walter Scott, made for Sir John Martin-Harvey by Stephen Phillips; together with an orchestral score by Norman O'Neill.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7151-7170
Scope and Contents
The first four drafts (MSS.7151-7157) are entitled 'The bride of Lammermoor'.
Dates:
1907-1908.
Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21881-21974
Scope and Contents
Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates:
1892-1941, undated.
Three compositions of Ronald Stevenson, "20 Selected Song-Settings of Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid", "Border Boyhood" and "A Modern Scottish Triptych".
File
Identifier: Acc.10566
Dates:
1964-1970.
Tunes for fiddle and bagpipe, with some Gaelic poetry, compiled by Barbara Forsyth.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9496
Dates:
circa 1863-1875.
Two manuscripts of musical scores of Ronald Stevenson: "Scots Suite for Solo Violin"; and "Pan-Celtic Symphonic Folksong Suite for Wind Quintet".
File
Identifier: Acc.12080/1-2
Dates:
1984, 2000.
Two music books of Robert Fleming, Dundee.
File
Identifier: Acc.11579
Scope and Contents
Contains the bass parts for dance tunes.
Dates:
1844-1861.
Two volumes of music, of pipe and, possibly, fiddle tunes.
File
Identifier: Acc.12882
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Typescript poem and fiddle music of and collected by Thomas Sinclair Rae.
File
Identifier: Acc.11548
Dates:
first half of 20th century.
Typescripts of works by Sydney Goodsir Smith, Crieff Williamson and John Guthrie.
File
Identifier: Acc.11806
Dates:
circa 1935-1988.
Verse and music of Thomas Stewart, music-seller, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.10526
Dates:
early 20th century.
Volume entitled 'Celtic music', compiled by David R Robertson, a mercantile clerk in Dundee, consisting of pipe tunes, poems, notes and memoranda, extracts from published sources, letters from correspondents interested in Gaelic culture, and some press cuttings and photographs.
File
Identifier: MS.22164
Scope and Contents
The title is taken from folio 1, a vellum leaf.Some items found loosely enclosed have been tipped or pasted in.The work consists of an introduction (folio 6) preceded by prefatory poems (folio 2), and eight sections: Old highland airs (folio 39), Clan tunes (folio 90), Jacobite airs (folio 131), Battle tunes (folio 159), Laments (folio 209), Old Scottish airs (folio 223), Army tunes (folio 244) and General marches (folio 276).There are two unrelated items:...
Dates:
1911-1912.
Volume of `Scotch and Irish Airs Collected and Written by Mr S... For the Violin andc`, copied by William Robertson.
Item
Identifier: Dep.194- is now Acc.8815.
Dates:
1811.
Volume of Scottish tunes (mainly for bagpipes), with possible variations, compiled by Maggie A Fletcher.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12380
Dates:
1896.
Volume of strathspeys, reels, jigs and hornpipes, for violin, once owned by Lewis H Millar, Musical Director, People`s Palace, Dundee.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12487
Dates:
circa 1880.
Volumes of music which once belonged to the family of Rose of Kilravock.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11420
Scope and Contents
One volume (in a different hand) contains sketches of works by the Earl of Kellie.
Dates:
late 18th century.
Waltz, 1830, composed by John Thomson.
File
Identifier: Acc.6292
Scope and Contents
With a letter, 1834, of John Thomson, Minister of Duddingston.
Dates:
1830, 1834.
Working and fair manuscript copies of various opera (for piano, string quartets, clarinet quintet et al.) of Robert Crawford.
File
Identifier: Acc.12550
Dates:
circa 1947-2004.