Reels. Musical compositions: Dances.
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
About 100 pieces of music, chiefly dances, in French lute tablature., Mid 17th century.
Many of the pieces are by Rene Mésangeau, and the manuscript closely resembles in its binding, watermark, and musical hand, a volume prepared after 1632 possibly for a pupil of Mésangeau and now in the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris - see ‘Oeuvres de René Mésangeau’ (Paris, 1971) edited by Monique Rollin. Other composers represented include Pinel (allemande, folio 33) and Dubut le père (courante, folio 54).
Album of reels, minuets, hornpipes, marches, and other dances, with a list of reels (incomplete) at the beginning and notes of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe., 1st half of 19th century.
Inside the end cover is a note, "Mr. Stenhouse's Vol. X. MSS".
'Collection of the Best and Most Favourite Tunes For the Violin. In four Parts. Also an Introduction with Directions for Playing the Violin. Perth. Collected and Transcribed by lames Gillespie'., 1768.
The book is divided into: airs and marches, Scots tunes, minuets, and hornpipes, jigs and reels.
Miscellaneous classifications - reels by keys, strathspey 'patterns', 'Auld Land Syne and Co.', and bagpipe tunes., [Circa 1930]-1953, undated.
Most of the material for MS.3110: 'Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd Music...', in rough form, with jottings of some reels and marches, one or two tunes from Angus Mackay's ‘Collection of ancient Piobaireachd’, and one, apparently, from the Ballindalloch Manuscript., 1882, undated.
Several tunes are given under names other than those which they usually bear. At folio 1 is a circular letter, undated, of Donald Stuart Macdonald, from Malta, announcing his intention of continuing Angus Mackay's publication.
Original manuscript of 'Mackenzie Fraser', a reel by James Scott Skinner, and a scrap of paper containing his undated signature., 1905, undated.
Photocopy of the manuscript known as the Duke of Perth manuscript, containing 'A collection of countrey dances written for the use of his Grace the Duke of Perth', 1734, followed by 'A collection of the best Highland reels', undated, compiled by David Young., 1734, undated.
Scottish and other dance music of Ian Whyte., Mid 20th century.
The contents include: An eightsome reel arranged for strings, in full score (folio 1) and other reels; Strathspeys copied from various sources (folio 18); Jigs (folio 22); Minuet (folio 24); Pavane (folio 25), fugue (folio 28), nocturnes and other pieces (folio 32), and various unidentified sketches (folio 59).
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson., 17th century-1963, undated.
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson., 17th century-1963, undated.
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.