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The music book includes traditional material both English and Scottish, the works of Purcell, Pepusch, and Corelli, and those of slightly later composers such as Handel, Vivaldi, and McGibbon.

Robert Kelsall was apparently interested in trumpet music, for the volume contains numerous trumpet minuets, and a transcript of 'Trumpet tune' by Nicola Matteis.

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Many of the tunes are taken from the publications of Niel Gow, but a number appear to originate in Fife (including several compositions by the Countess of Balcarres) and some are otherwise unknown. The book at one time belonged to H M Willsher, the musicologist.

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The music book contains tunes for the fiddle, many with variations, gathered from the published collections of the day.

On folio 4 verso is a list, April 1785, of the pupils at Frachadale school.

Scope and Contents This collection, actually set down by 'Mr S', perhaps the 'WS' who is composer or arranger of several tunes, consists almost entirely of Scottish music, much of it of bagpipe origin, and much of it transcribed from Daniel Dow's collections, and, rather freely, from the MacFarlane manuscript, now MSS.2084-2085, but then in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Six of the tunes attributed to the MacFarlane collections ('Merry Annie', page 34; 'Allan Logan's cant', page 37;...

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Many additional tunes are written in a later hand on strips of paper tipped or pasted in each volume throughout, and on other strips of papers loosely enclosed, which have been transferred to MS.22141. Pencil notes are written throughout each volume in a hand similar to that in which the additional tunes are written.

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...

Scope and Contents Music composed by the following fiddlers:(i) James Cameron of Inverness, undated, chiefly fiddle music, but including some songs (folio 1);(ii) James Henry of Macduff, with numerous annotations by John Murdoch Henderson, undated (folio 67);(iii) Dan R MacDonald, 1937-1947, undated, including a letter of criticism, [circa 1945], from Henderson; some of these tunes were composed while Macdonald was in a German prison camp (folio 73);(iv) Charles...

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...

Scope and Contents David Young, writing master in Edinburgh, and subsequently master of the grammar school in Haddington, is known to have made two other later compilations of Scottish tunes: the Young manuscript, [circa 1740], in the Bodleian Library (MS.Don.d.54), and the MacFarlane manuscripts, 1743, in the National Library of Scotland (MSS.2084-2085).The volume is remarkable for the quantity of material it contains (48 country dances, and 45 reels), for the descriptions of how the country...