Songs. Musical compositions.
Found in 411 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the Earls of Minto and other members of the family., 1791-1888, undated.
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Papers of the playwright and author, Joe Corrie (1894-1968).
Joe Corrie worked as a miner in Fife and Ayrshire, and many of his plays and stories are set in mining communities. He was a prolific writer who published a number of plays, several collections of poetry, and two novels, as well as numerous stories and articles in newspapers. Many of his plays were popular with amateur dramatic groups.
Papers of the Reverend Dr Duncan M Campbell, Minister of Cumlodden., Circa 1878-1912, 1927, undated.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Papers of the Reverend William Matheson.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Papers of the Rymour Club, Edinburgh, which existed from 1903 to 1947, its object being the collection of Scottish ballads, popular rhymes, proverbs, and the like.
Papers of the Sutherland Estates.
This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.
Papers relating to libretti and lyrics of Gavin Ewart., 1955-1995.
Papers relating to works edited or compiled by Gavin Ewart., 1900-1985.
Photocopies of a collection of music books.
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.
Photocopy of a music book of Miss Bessie Innes, Boghall, Auchindown, containing Scottish and a few north of England dance tunes, and songs, apparently added in another hand., [1837, or after-?1849.]
The owner is recorded on folio 1.
The book appears to have been begun no earlier than 1837 (folio 2).
Photocopy of manuscript draft of song of Robert Burns, "She says She Lo`es Me Best of a`".
24 lines in two stanzas, written in pencil.
Photocopy of manuscript setting of song of Francis George Scott, "Je Descendis dans mon Jardin".
Photocopy of music and first line of text of Robert Burns`s "Wha is that at my Bower Door".
Photocopy of "The Referendum Rant. Words and Melody by A Barron. Arrangement by J D Barron".
Photocopy of "Thou O God art Praised in Sion" (an exercise for the degree of Mus Bac, Oxon, 1877) by Thomas H Collinson, father of Francis Collinson.
Photograph of setting of a song, attributed to Franz Schubert.
Photostat copies of works by Percy Grainger intended for a projected, but unpublished, volume of simplified arrangements by him of some of his songs, with an introduction by D C Parker.
Photostats of parts of 'Adversaria', a commonplace-book of Sir Walter Scott., 1796.
Piano score and part, 1916, of ‘Epitaph’ by G W Crawford, a song scena apparently an expanded setting of words derived from poetry by ‘Morgan Douglas’; followed by the libretto, undated, of ‘Artemis’ by Edward Oxenford., 1916, undated.
The libretto is possibly in the hand of Edward Oxenford.
'Poems and songs cheifly (sic) in the Scottish dialect by Charles Lockhart Ramsay [subsequently of Fala], Edinburgh 1816', to which '-1835' has been added in pencil.
The volume contains ballads headed by dedications to various ladies, letters in verse addressed to various friends, and poems concerning or inspired by political events of the time.
Poems and songs of John Stuart Blackie, with a few of other persons., 1831-1892.
Poems and songs of William MacRitchie, transcribed by George MacRitchie.
Poems and songs of William MacRitchie, transcribed by his son, George.
Poems (including occasional, political, and love poems), songs and epitaphs., Early 17th century-18th century.
The great majority of the works are of the eighteenth century; but the earlier ones include one each by Andrew Melville (folio 1) and Arthur Johnston (folio 3), both apparently unpublished.