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Agnes Hume`s music book.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.17
Scope and Contents
The music book contans 15 pieces possibly for guitar, four common psalm tunes, and eight songs, with the later addition of some Scots tunes for violin. The guitar tunes (folios 1-4 verso) are written on a six line stave. The songs (folios 14 verso-17 verso, 8-9 - the correct arrangement) include:‘There is a lady sweet and kind’ by Thomas Ford (folio 15 verso);‘Gather your Rosebuds’, a setting of Robert Herrick`s poem (folio 16);`I...
Dates:
Circa 1704.
Airs of songs and ballads collected, chiefly in Buchan, with a few from Angus and elsewhere, by George Riddell, Rosehearty (died 1942).
Series
Identifier: MSS.3041-3043
Scope and Contents
Accounts of George Riddel's life will be found in MS.3042, inside the front cover.
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2955-2956
Dates:
1589-1881.
Annotated copy of J L Campbell and Francis Collinson, "Hebridean Folksongs" (1969).
Item
Identifier: Acc.9003
Scope and Contents
With five letters, 1979, of Campbell to Collinson.
Dates:
1969-1979.
Annotated draft of `the Pibroch of Donuil Dhu` of Walter Scott.
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Identifier: Acc.13426
Dates:
1816
Arrangements of the song "Balulalow" for voice and piano, and for strings, by Peter Warlock.
File
Identifier: Acc.5029
Dates:
circa 1920-circa 1930.
Audio cassette of a sound recording of "Skuil-Bairns Sing", a collection of Scots nursery rhymes, songs and poems, presented by children of Gourock Primary School.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6546
Dates:
1975.
Audio cassette, "Wee Willie Winkie and ither Weans: Scots Songs Sung by a Choir from Hillhead High School".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7557
Scope and Contents
Title from the label.
Dates:
1979.
Audio cassettes of recordings of the works of William Soutar, produced by Scotsoun.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6805/1-4
Dates:
1976.
Autograph manuscript of `The fair Unfortunate; or, the Tragedy of Jane Douglas, the Lady Glamis’, an unpublished drama in blank verse by Alexander Campbell, the editor Of ‘Albyn’s Anthology’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.22
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is undated, but another hand has added the date 27 November, 1819 (folio 89 verso).
Two sheets of musical accompaniment to songs in the text have been inserted (folios 41, 51).
Tipped in at the front of the volume is a letter, 1821, from the proprietors of Covent Garden Theatre, rejecting the play.
Dates:
1819.
Autograph manuscript, undated, of 'Three Scottish songs' arranged for voices, strings, piano and timpani by Gordon Jacob.
Item
Identifier: MS.21832
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Autograph score of 'Three Songs of Night' for baritone and strings, composed by Leon Coates from ‘Pomes Penyeach’ by James Joyce, for the Music Society of St Peter's College, Oxford.
Item
Identifier: MS.21879
Dates:
1967.
Autograph score of William Wallace, "Songs by Heine".
Item
Identifier: Acc.13997
Content Description
Presentation autograph score of William Wallace's arrangements for voice and piano of six poems by Heinrich Heine. Dated 1888, and inscribed to "Mrs Young". Contains arrangements of the following: 1. Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen; 2. Wenn zwei von einander scheiden; 3. Ich hab im Traume geweinet; 4. Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen; 5. Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; 6. Mädchen mit dem rothen Mündchen.
Dates:
1888
Autograph settings by Robin Orr of “The Kimmers o' Cougate” and Three Songs of Innocence by William Blake.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.22016
Dates:
1929, 1955.
Autograph vocal scores of works by Hamish MacCunn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21979-21980
Dates:
[Before 1890, before 1891.]
"Battle of Waterloo: a song." Written by two soldiers of the Highland Brigade.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12710
Dates:
1816.
Carefully written copy in an apparently early eighteenth-century hand of 'A S[t] Cecilia[s] song by Mr H Purcel', a setting for wind, strings, kettledrum and voices by Henry Purcell of Nicholas Brady's "An ode on St Cecilia's Day, 1692".
Item
Identifier: MS.21842
Scope and Contents
The copy appears to be almost complete, lacking only the latter part of the final Grand Chorus, even though many of the leaves are mutilated, the top and bottom staves (which were apparently unused) having been cut out, leading occasionally to the loss of the greater part of the leaf.
Dates:
1692.
Cassette recording of 60 poems and 12 songs of William Soutar.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11597
Dates:
1998.
Collection, made in the eighteenth century, of Jacobite songs, odes, satirical verse, etc.
File
Identifier: MS.2910
Scope and Contents
The collection is divided into 'Choice Poems, &c., on Several Occasions preceeding 1745' and 'Poems composed since the Attempt, 1745', and contains poems by Alexander Robertson of Strowan, Dryden, Montrose, Dr Archibald Pitcairne, and others, with a few ascribed to William Hamilton of Bangour, and many by 'Valerius' and other anonymous writers.At the end (folio 39 verso) is a Jacobite calendar, below which are the names Margaret Lowther and Almaria Trueworth, with a Royalist...
Dates:
1662-1749, undated.
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.
Collection of Scottish poems and Jacobite songs.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.44
Scope and Contents
The majority of the poems are anonymous but there are two by Allan Ramsay, one by Jonathan Swift, and one attributed to Colley Cibber. Several of the other poems have been printed and some appear in ‘First Line Index of English Poetry’. A list of these poems is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
Apart from the poems there are several pages written in a cypher and folios 71-73 contain dressmaking accounts, dated 1722-1729, in a different hand.
Dates:
Early 18th century.
'Collection of the ancient martial music of Caledonia’ by Donald Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1822), with the signature of Peter Reid dated Glasgow 1826, a poem in his hand, and other material bound in at the back.
File
Identifier: MS.22118
Scope and Contents
Peter Reid's signature is on the flyleaf (folio i) and the poem in his hand on the recto of page 2 of the 'Instructions'.Bound in at the back are:(i) Leaves ruled for music on most of which Reid has written out additional tunes, below which, on some of the leaves, are marginalia, parts of which have been lost due to trimming of the leaves (folio 1);(ii) Unruled leaves on which he has written various poems and songs (folio 35), and a list of the clans of...
Dates:
1822-1826
Commonplace book of Donald Mackay, 1848, containing miscelleanous texts including medical prescriptions, texts of religious instruction, songs partly with music, and Gaelic songs, partly composed by Mackay himself.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14338
Content Description
Commonplace book dated 1848, paginated by the scribe 1-732, 781-790, blank after page 727. A leather label pasted onto the front paste-down reads "Donald McKay 1848". The scribe was possibly the Rev. Donald Mackay (1829-1910), a native of Creich, Sutherland, minister of various parishes including Paisley and Nova Scotia. From 1848-1853, around the time of writing of the commonplace book, he was schoolmaster in Ullapool. If Mackay's identity could be confirmed, this time scale might explain...
Dates:
1848.
Compositions of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Ewing, author of ‘Jerusalem the Golden’, consisting of part-songs, anthems, exercises for the choir, and solos.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1785-1786
Scope and Contents
The lyrics of some of the pieces were written by the composer's wife, Juliana Horatia Ewing.
Dates:
1860-1876, undated.