Musical compositions.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: General term for the creation and conceptual arrangements of music into works to be performed.
Found in 240 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of musical manuscript from the library at Newbattle Abbey, containing sixty-six pieces for violin (two in two parts), chiefly dances, with a further seven pieces in tablature (apparently for a three-stringed instrument).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.451
Dates:
[Circa 1680.]
Microfilm of Panmure music book, containing twenty-three pieces of music, chiefly dances, in French lute tablature.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.460
Dates:
Mid 17th century.
Microfilm of Panmure music books.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.441
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of seven dance pieces by 'Mr Simpsone' (Christopher Simpson?) (MS.9453);Seventy-seven pieces of music, dances, songs, and Scots airs, for violin, [circa 1675] (MS.9454);First treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of pieces of music, chiefly dances, for viols (MS.9455);Second treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of pieces of music, chiefly dances, for viols...
Dates:
3rd quarter of 17th century-[circa 1675].
Microfilm of Panmure music books containing; 'Pieces de viole de Mʳ Marais'; "Folies d'Espagne" by Marin Marais; and, transcripts of 111 pieces for bass viol by Jean de Ste Colombe.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.473
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
'Pieces de viole de Mʳ Marais', compiled before 1685 (MS.9465), 46 frames;'Pieces de viole de Mʳ Marais', compiled before 1685 (MS.9466), 48 frames;"Folies d'Espagne" and other pieces for bass viol by Marin Marais, compiled before 1685. (MS.9467), 29 frames;Transcripts, possibly by Harie Maule, of a total of 111 pieces for bass viol by Jean de Ste Colombe, 4th quarter of the 17th century (MS.9468), 19 frames;...
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century.
Microfilm of Panmure music manuscript containing 'Arie diverse per il violino Preludij Alemande Sarabande Correnti Gighe Fantasie Sminuite ed altre Toccate a due corde composizione Di Nicola Matteis napolitano', being 110 pieces of music for violin and figured bass.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1242
Dates:
1681-1682.
Microfilm of sixty-six pieces of music for violin (two in two parts), chiefly dances, with a further seven pieces in tablature (apparently for a three-stringed instrument).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1086
Dates:
[Circa 1680.]
Microfilm of Skene Manuscript: a collection of 117 pieces in tablature for the mandora, apparently compiled by John Skene (? of Hallyards, Midlothian, died 1644).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.501
Dates:
?1615-?1635.
Microfilm of the Panmure music book containing 'Arie diverse per il violino Preludij Alemande Sarabande Correnti Gighe Fantasie Sminuite ed altre Toccate a due corde composizione Di Nicola Matteis napolitano', being 110 pieces of music for violin and figured bass.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1147
Dates:
1681-1682.
Microfilm of two Panmure music books.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.569
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Music book, [circa 1640], of Lady Jean Campbell (MS.9449), 79 frames;
About 100 pieces of music, mid 17th century, chiefly dances, in French lute tablature (MS.9452), 61 frames.
Dates:
Mid 17th century.
Minute and account book of the Perth Incorporation of Hammermen., 1518-1744.
Item
Identifier: MS.19239
Scope and Contents
This volume was started in 1584 and all entries of earlier date are noted to have been copied out of an "auld buik".
The contents are as follows.
(i) Admission of William Lander, book binder and parchment-maker, Perth, 1584 (folio 1);
(ii) Pious verses addressed to the Incorporation, 1584 (folio 1 verso);
(iii) Minutes and accounts, 1518-1744 (folio 2);
(iv) Fragment of early music (folio 268).
Dates:
1518-1744.
Miscellaneous classifications - reels by keys, strathspey 'patterns', 'Auld Land Syne and Co.', and bagpipe tunes., [Circa 1930]-1953, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21699
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
[Circa 1930]-1953, undated.
Miscellaneous collection of instrumental music by Learmont Drysdale., [1893-1898.]
File
Identifier: MS.3212
Scope and Contents
Includes a piano score of the overture 'Herondean' (folio 32), a Maypole dance from 'The Red Spider' (folio 3), and duplicates of MS.3207: Ballade, for violin and piano (folio 9).
Dates:
[1893-1898.]
Miscellaneous collection of music, and of lectures and writings (many fragmentary) on music, and on Scottish music in particular, by Francis George Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22019-22020
Dates:
1913-1951, undated.
Miscellaneous Gaelic songs and papers of Rose Ethel Bassin., 1931-1968.
File
Identifier: MS.14925
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Chiefly words, 1931-1967. Includes (folio 76) letter in Gaelic from Donald MacPhail, Inverness, 1955 (folio 1);
(ii) Word-sheets for school concerts, 1942-1948 (folio 79);
(iii) Music (including accompaniments), 1931-1968 (folio 116).Includes the following miscellaneous songs ‘Crodh Chailein’ (folios 1 recto, 157 recto); “Crònan Cuallaich” (folio 3 recto); ‘Ailein Duinn’ (folio 4 recto, 29 recto); ‘An Gille Dubh Ciar-dhubh’ (folio 5...
Dates:
1931-1968.
Miscellaneous items of and concerning the Ker family including poetry, drawings and school exercise books., 1653-1826, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5459
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Two political ballads, and complimentary verses to Sir Andrew Ker, 1676, and to Lord Jedburgh, undated (folio 1);(ii) Minutes of Bedrule kirk session, 1653-1654, recording attempts to choose a new minister (folio 6);(iii) Five school exercise-books, circa 1820-1821; two (both signed St Clair) contain a Latin poem on William Tell and notes on Greek history respectively, and the three others contain notes on Euclid (folio...
Dates:
1653-1826, undated.
Miscellaneous material of John Davidson., [?1871-?1926.]
File
Identifier: MS.22072
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letters, notes and poems to John Davidson (folio 1);(ii) A list of Davidson’s compositions (folio 11);(iii) A list of books on music bought by Davidson, 1886-1906 (folio 12);(iv) Various musical compositions and sketches (folio 20);(v) Postcards, photographs and prints of Aberdeen and Woodside (folio 70);(vi) Other printed items (folio 99);(vii) Press cuttings, [circa...
Dates:
[?1871-?1926.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
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Musical compositions and other papers, chiefly undated, of John Davidson.
Miscellaneous music and words from various cultures collected by Rose Ethel Bassin., 1938-1969.
File
Identifier: MS.14929
Scope and Contents
The miscellaneous music and words are from various cultures other than Scottish Gaelic, notably Russian (folios 20-32), Aramaic (folios 33-36), French (-Canadian) (folios 37-40), Chilean (folios 41-43), Irish (folio 44), Scots (folios 45-53), English (folio 55 on).Also included are the following;(i) Music connected with B.Mus. (Durham) correspondence course, 1938-1941 (folio 1);(ii) See above. Folio 35, letter of Ruth Rubin, folksinger, New York, 26 August...
Dates:
1938-1969.
Miscellaneous music of W B Moonie., 1915, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22010
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) A setting, different from that in MS.22009, for violin and piano, of the anonymous Scottish ballad 'Edward! Edward!', 1915. (Folio 1).(ii) A setting for voice and piano of Herrick's 'Glide, gentle stream'. (Folio 8).(iii) A setting of George Scott Moncrieff's 'Song of Roland'. (Folio 12).(iv) Pieces numbered 2-5 of an unidentified work, or arrangement, for piano. (Folio 16).(v) A setting of 'Woodland...
Dates:
1915, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
Miscellaneous orchestral music of G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21902-21910
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
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Orchestral music of G W Crawford.
Miscellaneous pieces and scraps of music by Maude Beswick., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21641
Scope and Contents
The pieces include vocal music, versions of the ‘Reverie’ and ‘Romance’ for violin and piano (MS.2635: 'Violin solos'), and ‘The waterwheel’ for piano (also found as a piece marked ‘tempo giusto’ in MS.21638 ('Piano solos').
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Miscellaneous pieces of music, undated, chiefly by Charles D Beswick, with an ‘Amen’ by T H Collinson, organist of St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21642
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Miscellaneous Scottish music., 18th century-19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1782
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) ‘Tom and Will’ for voice, and ‘Cupids Doomsday’ for voice and virginal;
(ii) ‘A Souldier and a Sailer’ for voice and virginal;
(iii) A Largo attributed to Thomas A Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie;
(iv) ‘Rock-loving Echo’, glee, by John Turnbull;
(v) ‘Bonny wee thing’ and ‘The Cobler of Castlecary’ arranged for a brass band by George Baker, 1863.
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Miscellany of music.
File
Identifier: MS.21850
Scope and Contents
The material consists of:(i) A setting, 1772, for voice and piano by John Collett of 'An ode in honour of the birthday of Andrew Crosbie' by John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn (folio 1);(ii) A copy, in an early nineteenth-century (apparently contemporary) hand, of Karl Czerny, 'Choix de Walses brillantes et faciles pour le piano-forte' (folio 11);(iii) A full score, in an apparently late eighteenth-century hand, of the aria 'Son confusa pastorella' from the...
Dates:
1745-early 19th century.
Miscellany of papers of John Davidson and James Scott Skinner., [?1896]-1917, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22077
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Score of ‘Duo for two violins (no. 10)’ by John Davidson; not the same as that in MS.22076 where it was formerly loosely enclosed (folio 1);
(ii) Letter, 1917, to and notes, undated, of Davidson (folio 5);
(iii) The words (printed) of a 'Grand processional march', ?1896, on the verso of which is a strathspey in the hand of James Scott Skinner (folio 8);
(iv) Letter, 1917, of Skinner to Davidson (folio 9).
Dates:
[?1896]-1917, undated.
Music album on CD-ROM, 'Christmas 2007', compiled by Room 13., 2007.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 41(2)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Attic Archive evolved organically from the activities of Pete Horobin, beginning in 1978. When Horobin's association ended, the archive was continued in turn by Marshall Anderson, Peter Haining and, lastly, aitch. Each change of custody coincided with the start of a new phase of activity, each phase undertaken, usually, over ten years.The papers of the Attic Archive are now dispersed through various cultural institutions, each having a particular association with the archive,...
Dates:
2007.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers, mostly of Marshall Anderson, from the Attic Archive, Dundee.
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Box containing a file of 'Writings' of Marshall Anderson, with assorted analogue and digital media.
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CD-ROMs containing material relating to 'Room 13' project of Marshall Anderson.