Fiddle music.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Musical compositions specifically composed or arranged for fiddle, regardless of the notation in which they are recorded.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Collections of music for fiddle.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21714-21732
Dates:
[Circa 1705-before 1977], undated.
Leaves containing fiddle music, a fragment of a much larger work, bound inside a pair of hard covers for Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, who has inscribed the inner front cover and written 'Vol: 2nd' on the flyleaf.
Item
Identifier: MS.21841
Scope and Contents
The leaves, watermarked 1801, are paginated between 209 and 255 (with omissions, and somewhat out of order).
Many leaves are soiled or torn, and a loose leaf, apparently from another source, containing minuets (folio 24), has been tipped in at the back.
Dates:
[1801, or after.]
Microfilm of music book of George Bowie, consisting of 50 fiddle tunes, some with bass (reversed).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.562
Dates:
[Circa 1705.]
Music books containing fiddle music written by William McKinley, with a quantity of loose sheets of music and accompanying material.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22137-22141
Dates:
19th century-1943.
Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21669-21713
Scope and Contents
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:
17th century-1972.