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Music books.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Books or booklets, bound or unbound, in which personal compositions or favourite musical pieces by other composers are recorded in some form of musical notation. Most commonly the pages are pre marked with music staves to be completed in manuscript; but volumes of blank pages in which only musical compositions in manuscript have been recorded should be considered music books too. Other than stave notation, other notations might include tablature, canntaireachd, etc. Where only songs have been recorded use 'Songbooks'.

Found in 242 Collections and/or Records:

Gaelic and Irish songs and some of George Campbell Hay's poems set to music., 1936-1939.

 File
Identifier: MS.26741
Scope and Contents From the Series:

George Campbell Hay was a self-taught piper and by 1940 had acquired an impressive repertoire of songs. In the late 1930's he began to compose settings both for his own and traditional poems. Some of the settings of the poems set to music are traditional.

Dates: 1936-1939.

Gaelic and Irish songs and some of George Campbell Hay's poems set to music., [Circa 1936]-1947.

 File
Identifier: MS.26742
Scope and Contents From the Series:

George Campbell Hay was a self-taught piper and by 1940 had acquired an impressive repertoire of songs. In the late 1930's he began to compose settings both for his own and traditional poems. Some of the settings of the poems set to music are traditional.

Dates: [Circa 1936]-1947.

Gaelic and Irish songs and some of George Campbell Hay's poems set to music., 1947.

 File
Identifier: MS.26743
Scope and Contents From the Series:

George Campbell Hay was a self-taught piper and by 1940 had acquired an impressive repertoire of songs. In the late 1930's he began to compose settings both for his own and traditional poems. Some of the settings of the poems set to music are traditional.

Dates: 1947.

“John MacKillop’s music book”., 1813.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21739
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The music is almost the same in each volume. It would appear from annotations in MS.21742 that the music was played by the Morvern Company of the 42nd Regiment (the Black Watch).

Dates: 1813.

Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.

 File
Identifier: MS.3282
Scope and Contents The music-book is made up of pages watermarked 1794. The volume contains ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces from Scotland and various European countries (passim), hymns (folios 22 verso-31), and vocal exercises and scales (folios 22, 32 verso-33 verso, 70-71 verso). Among the more extended pieces are extracts for pianoforte from Méhul's 'Jeune Henri' of 1797 (folio 67 verso), and from an opera 'Paul and Virginia', possibly that produced in London in 1800; and 'Favourite dances at...
Dates: ?1794-1813.

'Manuscript music' book of the daughters of James Douglas containing dances and songs from various countries., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.21792
Scope and Contents

The title is given on folio i.

The music book contains a contents list at folio i verso.

Tipped in at folios 73-78 are six leaves containing the words and music of additional songs. A fragment of a printed sheet containing the words of a song is tipped in at folio v.

Dates: Early 19th century-mid 19th century.

Microfilm of Margaret Sinkler's music-book, containing a collection of airs, chiefly Scottish; with notes thereon by Lady Dorothea Ruggles-Brise.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.322
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Margaret Sinkler's music-book, 1710, containing a collection of chiefly Scottish airs (MS.3296 [Glen.143(i)]);

Notes, [1927, or before], on the airs in Margaret Sinkler's music-book, by Lady Dorothea Ruggles-Brise, who indicates in what collections, if any, they first appeared (MS.3297 [Glen.143(ii)]).

Dates: 1710, [1927, or before.]

Microfilm of music books of Agnes Hume and George Skene.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.542
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Agnes Hume’s music book, [circa 1704] (Adv.MS.5.2.17);

Music Book, 1717, of George Skene of Skene (Adv.MS.5.2.21).

Dates: [Circa 1704], 1717.

Microfilm of music books of Duncan Burnett and Robert Edward.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.234
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Music book, [?1630-?1650], of Duncan Burnett (circa 1590-1651), master of the sang schule in Glasgow, and a noted keyboard virtuoso (MS.9447);

Commonplace book, [?1635-?1670], of Robert Edward, containing a large number of songs and psalms (MS.9450).

Dates: [?1630-?1670.]

Microfilm of music notebook.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.124

Microfilm of Nether Lorn, or Campbell, Canntaireachd.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.553
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: "Colin Campbell's Instrumental Book, 1797. The First Volum Continuing [sic] 83 Tunes", 1797 (MS.3714), 94 frames;

'Colin Campbell Second Volum Containing 86 Tuns', [1814, or after] (MS.3715), 89 frames.

Dates: 1797, [1814, or after].