Hymns. Songs.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Songs of praise in honor of gods, countries, famous people, or other objects of high esteem, especially settings of metrical strophic nonbiblical texts intended to be sung at religious services.
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Music book of Robert Moir containing psalms, hymns in four-part harmony, songs and exercises, copied from printed sources published between 1853 and 1861., 1853-1861.
Item
Identifier: MS.21772
Scope and Contents
Leaves have been cut out after folio 2, and folio 3 has been mutilated. Folios 10 and 12, which contain additional verses, are tipped in.
Dates:
1853-1861.
Music book of the daughters of James Douglas containing songs from various countries and some hymns., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21794
Scope and Contents
The music book is apparently lacking both covers.
Compositions by Mary Douglas are at folios 5-6 verso and by James Douglas of Cavers at folio 19.
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Music book, undated, of Robert Moir containing hymn tunes, some in simple treble notation, songs, some of which are in settings for voice and keyboards, and exercises, all apparently copied from published sources., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21773
Scope and Contents
Leaves have been torn out after folios 2 and 4. Folios 10 12, 14 and 16, which contain additional verses, are tipped in.
Dates:
19th century.
Music books and papers of Robert Moir (died 1869), who was President of the Edinburgh Church-Music Society and subsequently Conductor of Music at St Magnus' Cathedral, Kirkwall.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21772-21775
Dates:
1511-19th century.
Notebook of Evelyn Stewart-Murray containing Gaelic songs and hymns copied from the McLagan collection., 1888.
Item
Identifier: MS.14884
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains an inscription on the first leaf: ‘from the Manuscripts of the late Revd James McLagan Blair Athole; and lent to P.C. [i.e. Paul Cameron?] by his grandson, the Revd L.C. MacLagan Wedderburn F.C. Madderty May 24 1888 P.C. June 26. 1888. E.S.M.’The last two folios are tipped in at the back and probably copied from a different source.The notebook contains the following.(i) James McLagan (?). ‘Failte Adhail’. 12 double quatrains, beginning “'N uair...
Dates:
1888.
Notebooks of Evelyn Stewart-Murray containing copies of Gaelic songs and hymns., 1888, 1890.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14884-14885
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gaelic manuscripts of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940), third daughter of John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray, 7th duke of Atholl (1840-1917). Having learned Gaelic in her youth, she collected 240 Gaelic folk tales in Perthshire (the manuscripts now held in Blair Castle), and also left behind notebooks of Gaelic songs and other Gaelic material. The contents are as follows.MS.14884. Songs copied from McLagan Collection; small collection of hymns...
Dates:
1888, 1890.
Notes of Lady John Scott on music, and songs, chiefly Scottish., 1826-1827.
File
Identifier: MS.842
Scope and Contents
The contents nclude a hymn by James Hogg beginning, “Blessed be Thy name for ever”, “Lucy’s Flittin’” by William Laidlaw, “The Spottiswoode's Quick March”, and “The Spotys-woode's Coronach”.
Dates:
1826-1827.
Order of Gaelic service, printed., 12 February 1933
File
Identifier: Acc.13865/12
Scope and Contents
Printed order of service, entitled 'Glasgow University Bute Hall. Order of Gaelic Service 12 February 1933 at 3 p.m.' 4 pp. The preacher was the Rev. Charles MacKinnon, minister of St. Paul's Outer High Church, Glasgow; Rev. John Mackechnie and Mr Roderick Smith, member of the Ossianic Society, are listed as readers. Contains the texts of four Gaelic hymns.
Dates:
12 February 1933
Papers of the Reverend David Thomas.
File
Identifier: Acc.9863
Scope and Contents
Includes:
journal, 1904, of a visit to Australia, with an edited typescript
volume of hymns, undated
photograph, undated, of "Old Scotch Collegians" in Melbourne
Dates:
1904 and undated.
Photocopies of a collection of music books.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21777-21783
Scope and Contents
Most of the music books are of unknown ownership but all may be of northern Scottish provenance. They are all undated but appear to belong to the first half of the nineteenth century.
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
Photocopy of a music book of Elizabeth Hickton, Rothes, containing dances and a few hymn tunes., 1st half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21781
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth Hickton's name is recorded on folio 3.
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
Photostat of 'A hymn for divine music for soprano and continuo' by William Croft, with realization of figured bass by Celia Bizony, as performed in the National Library of Scotland during the Edinburgh Festival of 1958., [1958, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 273-275
Dates:
[1958, or before.]
Playbills, photographs and miscellaneous personal and medical papers., 1872-1949, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6427 Box 19(1)-(5)
Religious commonplace book, of the Napier family, containing, "A copy of some familiar letters which passed between intimate friends, as they were written from the originall's for the transcriber's private use".
Item
Identifier: MS.3008
Scope and Contents
The items are numbered, and there is a list of contents at the beginning and end.Most of the letters, which cover the period 1721-1781, with a few of 1707, are addressed by Archibald Napier of Bowhopple, Minister of Kilmadock, the transcriber's grandfather (see number 61), and his son, Thomas Napier of Greenhill, watchmaker in Glasgow, to Archibald Napier, apothecary in Edinburgh, and other members of the family. There are also copies of letters of other writers, hymns, sermons,...
Dates:
1707, 1721-1781.
Small collections of letters and papers, and some transcripts from manuscripts made with the permission of the owners of the originals.
File
Identifier: MS.1758
Dates:
1645-1936, undated.
The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.14850-14864
Scope and Contents
A collection of Gaelic songs and associated papers, brought together by the Rev. Donald MacNicol (1735-1802), minister of Lismore, and continued by his son Dugald (b. 1791), an army officer. The Gaelic songs are from a range of periods and include Ossianic verse, waulking songs and songs by contemporaries of the collectors, such as Dugald Buchanan, Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre and Seumas Mac Gille-Sheathanaich (Shaw). The Ossianic verse was published in John Francis Campbell's 'Leabhar na...
Dates:
1752-ca. 1900 and undated, with most of the material dating from the later 18th and early 19th century.
Theological works of St Bernard of Clairvaux and others, probably from a Cistercian house.
File
Identifier: MS.9153
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) The 'De consideratione' of St Bernard. Printed by J P Migne in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxii, 727-808. (Folio 2 verso).(ii) Four sermons of St Bernard on Luke I, 26-38. Printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxiii, 55-88. (Folio 85).(iii) Hugh of St Victor, 'Soliloquium de arrha animae'. The prologue and 'confessio’ are in a shorter version than that printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxvi, 951-970. (Folio...
Dates:
13th century.
Verses, songs and hymns of Jan Struther, arranged in alphabetical order by title, many unpublished, containing fair copies, drafts, notes and some music., Circa 1920-1951.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13220/20-22
Scope and Contents
Containing about 350 items.
Dates:
Circa 1920-1951.
Vocal music of John Davidson, consisting of hymns and other religious compositions and settings of songs., [?1871-?1926.]
File
Identifier: MS.22071
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
John Davidson, a member of the family of J & A Davidson, coal merchants and shipping agents, Aberdeen, was an amateur musician and composer. His preferred medium appears to have been the string quartet, but he composed and arranged pieces also for other combinations of instruments, chiefly strings. A number of pieces appear in more than one form. The collection contains both full scores and parts.The earliest and latest dates discernible are 1871 and 1926, but almost...
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.