Melodies.
Found in 168 Collections and/or Records:
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson., 1687-1959, undated.
The manuscript includes some content created through a drum duplcation process.
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music, with some notes, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson., 17th century-1963, undated.
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys and other miscellaneous music, chiefly undated, compiled circa 1950-circa 1970, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson, including a note of the Scottish tunes from ‘Pills to purge melancholy’, 1719-1720, by Thomas D'Urfey., 1719-1956, undated.
Tunes collected by Donald Stuart Macdonald, Pipe Major, 1st Battalion Royal Scots, and written down in 1882.
Tunes copied from "Bremner's Reels, 1759", presumably the ‘Collection of Scots reels’, published by Robert Bremner., 1759.
Tunes gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key., 1947.
Tunes in 3/4 time gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key., [?1947.]
Tunes in 4/4 time gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key., [?1947.]
Tunes in 6/8 time gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key., 1947.
Typescript copy of "Bibliography of George Thomson's Folio Collection of Scottish Airs, with supplementary sections for separate accompaniments, sonatas, & other works, compiled by Thomas Davidson Cook"., [Circa 1922.]
Leaves of a carbon copy containing additional details have been inserted after the corresponding leaf of the main typescript. The Bibliography is preceded by two letters, 1922, of Frank Kidson on Thomson (folio i) and "Notes on the bibliography of George Thomson's Scottish Airs" (folio xiii).
Unbound manuscript music., 1743-19th century, undated
Various single and small quantities of musical compositions and letters of James Scott Skinner.
Volume of airs, chiefly of ballads, also of marches, etc., dedicated to Sir Walter Scott by Andrew Blaikie., 1824.
Volume of Scottish music, comprising airs, Lowland and Highland, songs, dances, a pibroch, etc., 1838, undated.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Xerox of a manuscript music book containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane., 1808.
This music book is the source of much of the Clephanes’ privately printed collection of 1808 (Microfilm MS.266). Almost half is Gaelic. Includes (folio 57) an otherwise unrecorded air for “Eachann Bacach’s Thriall ar bunadh gu Phàro”.
Xerox of a manuscript music book containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane., 1816, 1825.
Xerox of a manuscript music book containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane., 1821-1823.
A highly miscellaneous collection of Scots, Gaelic and Irish songs, 18th century operatic airs, etc., chiefly arranged for voice and keyboard. Dated at folios 38 (‘Gaelic air picked up at sea Sept. 1823’), 47 (“Una’s song. A.J.D.C. April 25th 1822”) and 116 (‘Ballads still unset Une 16th 1821’). Most of the small number of Gaelic airs are indexed at folio 119.
Xeroxes of three manuscript music books containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane of Torloisk, Mull.
The airs in the music books are drawn from a broad range of cultures, including Gaelic.