Songs. Musical compositions.
Found in 411 Collections and/or Records:
Seven diaries of Patrick Cadell, Keeper of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland.
Includes memorandum of matters outstanding on his leaving and a copy of a song, composed and sung by Timothy Lawrence, at Mr Cadell`s leaving party in 1990.
Seventy-seven pieces of music, dances, songs, and Scots airs, for violin., [Circa 1675.]
Apparently in the same hand as GD45/26/104 in the Scottish Record Office, and as parts of MS.5778. Composers named are [Davis] Mell, [John?] Bannister, Mr Baptist (Lully?), Mr Clayton, and [Robert] Smith. The pieces 'Belle Rese' and 'Borry Royall' (folios 6 verso-7) are also in MS.9455, folios 41, 41 verso, while two others, 'Prelude' by Mell (folios 3 verso-4) and 'Borrie Fountaine Blowe' (folio 12) are also in MS.5779, folios 8 and 11 verso, 12.
Sheets of music, undated, containing copies of songs and dances in various hands., 1st half of 19th century.
The pieces are undated, but folios 9-10 are watermarked 1825, and folios 11 and 17 1835 and 1837 respectively.
Six songs by Erik Chisholm, being settings for voice and keyboard of poems chiefly by Lillias Scott.
Sketches, 1970-1971, by Benjamin Britten for two songs, undated, 'Black Day' and 'Who are these Children?' from the song cycle 'Who are these Children?', to words by William Soutar., 1970-1971.
Sketches and fair copy of 'Five Orkney scenes', a song cycle for female voice and piano by Claire Liddell with words by George Mackay Brown.
Small collections and single letters presented by various donors.
Song and music book of Margaret, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Honourable Adolphus Frederick Cathcart, containing songs (arranged for voice and keyboard) and dances.
Song book (the last four attributed to Robert Wilcox) of Andrew Hume, Dunbar.
Song collections of Reverend William Matheson., Undated.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Song settings for solo voice by G W Crawford, arranged in alphabetical order of title., [?1892-?1941.]
Song settings of Ian Whyte., Mid 20th century.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Original settings of poems with pianoforte accompaniment (folio 1);
(ii) Arrangements of traditional Scottish and other airs and of poems of Burns, chiefly for solo voice and piano (folio 32);
(iii) Words and unaccompanied melodies of various Scottish airs (folio 89);
(iv) Copies of two tunes from early sources written in the same hand as that of, and on sheets probably taken from, MS.22093 (folio 96).
Song texts, mostly photocopies, with some music staff and solfa notation.
‘Song to the Tune of Logan Water’ by James Boswell, concerning certain legal proceedings before the Court of Session., 1770.
The manuscript has been compiled from various sources. See the particular descriptions. Letters of presentation by or on behalf of the donors are included.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
Songs, airs from oratorios, minuets, etc., written out at the end of an imperfect copy of ‘Lessons on the practice of singing, with an addition of the church tunes, in four parts, and a collection of hymns ; canons, airs and catches, for the improvement of beginners', by Cornforth Gilson (Edinburgh, 1759).
On the first end-paper and on the fly-leaves (folios i, ii) there are quotations of poetry about music. The date of the manuscript is probably not much later than the date of publication of the book.
'Songs and verses' by Lady Frances Anna Maria Elliot and Mary, Countess of Minto., 1839.
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.
'Songs, Book Two', undated, a collection of words and music by Joe Corrie., Mid 20th century.
Joe Corrie wrote music for many of his verses, and they were performed at concerts and on the radio.
Songs by Joe Corrie., 1962-1963, undated.
Joe Corrie wrote music for many of his verses, and they were performed at concerts and on the radio.
Songs by Joe Corrie., 1962-1963, undated.
Joe Corrie wrote music for many of his verses, and they were performed at concerts and on the radio.
Songs collected and arranged by Duncan M Morison, Stornoway.
Songs for voice and piano, 1905 and earlier, by Sir John B McEwen (autograph)., 1905, undated.
The contents include: three settings of Verlaine (translated by Ashmore Wingate), published as ‘Three songs’ (1906); "Love's but a dance" (1906) to words by Austin Dobson; and unpublished settings of poems by Justin McCarthy and Arthur Symons.