Jigs. Musical compositions.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Pieces of music composed to accompany a jig (a lively dance with leaping movements), typically in compound time. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
'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.
File
Identifier: MS.808
Scope and Contents
The book is divided into: airs and marches, Scots tunes, minuets, and hornpipes, jigs and reels.
Dates:
1768.
'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'; with original binding.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.808
Dates:
1768.
Microfilm of four untitled manuscripts of bagpipe music of Angus Mackay.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.68
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscripts, [?1826-?1840], of Angus Mackay containing piobaireachd (MSS.3753-3754);
Manuscripts, [?1826-?1840], of Angus Mackay containing marches, strathspeys, reels, jigs, and other dance music for bagpipe (MSS.3755-3756).
Dates:
[1826-1840.]
Microfilm of musical works, chiefly dances, from the papers of the firm of J and R Glen.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.960
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Volume containing 418 marches, hornpipes, and jigs, 235 strathspeys and reels, and 14 piobaireachd, 1687 (Acc.8396, number 1);Volume containing a small collection of marches and dances by Duncan Fergusson, 1884 (Acc.8396, number 2);Collection of 164 strathspeys and reels, and one piobaireachd (lament for Cluny Macpherson, ‘composed by Malcolm Macpherson, 1885’), 19th century (Acc.8396, number 3);Collection of about 200 marches...
Dates:
1847-1974.
Scottish and other dance music of Ian Whyte., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.22090
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
Mid 20th century.