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Annotated printed works, typescripts, and manuscripts connected with piobaireachd, in particular with the exact musical interpretation of canntaireachd, compiled by Alexander K Cameron, Montana, USA.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9613-9624
Dates:
19th century-20th century.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22098-22117
Scope and Contents
Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....
Dates:
1892-1963, undated.
Manuscript of Major-General C S Thomason's ‘Ceol Mor’, containing bagpipe music, together with a volume of notes on the occasions commemorated by various piobaireachd.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3747-3749
Dates:
[1900, or before.]
Microfilm of ‘Ceol Mor Legends', containing notes, in several hands and in typescript, on the occasions commemorated by various piobaireachd.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.888
Dates:
[?1900, or before.]
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.]
Microfilm of two collections of piobaireachd; and, 'Account of the Campbells of Nether Lorn and their system of Canntaireachd'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.967
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Typescript 'Account of the Campbells of Nether Lorn and their system of Canntaireachd', late 19th century-early 20th century (MS.2260);
Collection of pipe music, 19th century, (78 piobaireachd), compiled by William Ross, Piper to Queen Victoria (MS.3040);
Copies of piobaireachd in staff notation, 1928, (with some canntaireachd) by Simon Fraser (MS.9617).
Dates:
19th century-early 20th century.
Typescript copy of the Nether Lorn, or Campbell, Canntaireachd; with a typescript 'Account of the Campbells of Nether Lorn and their system of Canntaireachd'.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2259-2260
Dates:
1797-[1814, or after], undated.