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Songs. Musical compositions.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Musical compositions, typically relatively short, consisting of words, melody and, often but not necessarily, other elements of musical arrangement. The words, which may be sung with or without instrumental accompaniment, may be specific to the music, lyrics, or the music may be composed to accompany existing words, such as those of a poem.

Found in 411 Collections and/or Records:

Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.3
Scope and Contents Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...
Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.

Transcripts and notes, I, early 20th century, partly typewritten, concerning the ‘Forty-five., 1685-1700, 1745-1747, 1802.

 File
Identifier: MS.298
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Memorandum in the handwriting of Murray of Dollerie regarding the fate of his son Anthony, present at the battle of Culloden, 1746. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘Memorial for the Lord Braco to the Lord Advocate’, 1747. (Folio 4.)(iii) Correspondence of Lord Lewis Gordon and others with Mr Harry Milne, factor to Duff, the Laird of Drummuir, and other documents relating to the payment of levy-money to Prince Charles Edward, 1745-1746....
Dates: 1685-1700, 1745-1747, 1802.

Twenty songs and choruses of George Frideric Handel, composer.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6301 [BH.Add.48]
Scope and Contents

The works are from the oratorios "Alexander's Feast", 'Samson', 'Deborah', 'Occasional Oratorio', 'Saul', 'Susanna', 'Judas Maccabaeus', and the "Ode for St Cecilia's Day", in vocal score; with two marches, from the 'Occasional Oratorio', and 'Judas Maccabaeus', arranged for keyboard. They are written in a professional hand, and most of them include a note of performance time.

The music begins on folio 7, the preceding folios containing a contents list.

Dates: 1733-1749.

Two untitled, undated, music books containing collections of songs by Joe Corrie., Mid 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26537-26538
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Joe Corrie wrote music for many of his verses, and they were performed at concerts and on the radio.

Dates: Mid 20th century.

Typescript libretto and manuscript musical sketches for opera of Learmont Drysdale, "Flora Macdonald".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4694
Scope and Contents

With manuscript arrangements of eight Scots songs.

Dates: circa 1903.

Typescript of 'There was a Lad', a play by Joe Corrie about Robert Burns in three acts, with songs., [Circa 1960.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26510
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Most of the typescripts are undated, and relatively few have been published. Some of the one-act plays were written for amateur drama groups competing in Scottish Community Drama festivals. Joe Corrie sometimes wrote more than one play with the same plot, and he would alter an act of a longer play to make it a one-act play in its own right. He also adapted some of his stage plays for broadcasting.

Dates: [Circa 1960.]

Typescripts of poems and songs by Joe Corrie., 1949-1966, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26531-26532
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Joe Corrie wrote a large number of poems, some of which were published in newspapers or in his collections of poetry, Rebel poems’ (London, 1932), “The Image o' God” (Edinburgh, 1937), and ‘Scottish pride’ (Newton Stewart, 1955).

Dates: 1949-1966, undated.

Typescripts of poems and songs with titles from A-M by Joe Corrie., 1949-1966, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26531
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Joe Corrie wrote a large number of poems, some of which were published in newspapers or in his collections of poetry, Rebel poems’ (London, 1932), “The Image o' God” (Edinburgh, 1937), and ‘Scottish pride’ (Newton Stewart, 1955).

Dates: 1949-1966, undated.

Typescripts of poems and songs with titles from N-Y by Joe Corrie., 1949-1966, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26532
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Joe Corrie wrote a large number of poems, some of which were published in newspapers or in his collections of poetry, Rebel poems’ (London, 1932), “The Image o' God” (Edinburgh, 1937), and ‘Scottish pride’ (Newton Stewart, 1955).

Dates: 1949-1966, undated.

Unbound manuscript music., 1743-19th century, undated

 File
Identifier: MS.3352 [Ing.305]
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Military airs, almost all mentioned in the history of military music (MS.3353) which they were intended to illustrate. They are taken from various sources, such as the Dalhousie and Macfarlane manuscripts and a manuscript music-book of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and include transcripts of two manuscripts of William Byrd's Battle Piece. So far as possible, they have been arranged in the order in which they are mentioned in MS.3353, to the sections...
Dates: 1743-19th century, undated

Verse, undated, by John Stuart Blackie., Mid 19th century-late 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2651
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: sonnets (folio 1), songs (folio 42), an epic on Jack the Giant-killer, in Greek and English (folio 80), fragments of a drama on Prometheus (folio 132), and miscellaneous (folio 148).

Dates: Mid 19th century-late 19th century.

Vocal music of Ian Whyte., Mid 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22088-22089
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Apart from the film music, which is datable to 1947-1948 from the accompanying correspondence and papers (MSS.22085-22086), almost all the music is undated; but from the ink used, some of it may be dated to about the same period.

Except where otherwise stated the music is written as for keyboard.

Dates: Mid 20th century.

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.]

Vocal score of settings by Hamish MacCunn of one hundred Scottish songs., [Before 1891.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.21980
Scope and Contents

Many of the songs are traditional airs and of the rest, many are by Robert Burns. There are small numbers of songs or poems by Allan Ramsay, Scott, Tannahill, Hogg, Lady Nairne and others.

Dates: [Before 1891.]

Vocal scores and parts of various pieces of incidental music of G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]

 File
Identifier: MS.21967
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Portions (possibly specimen) of vocal score for 'Afifah' by Herbert Woodgate (folio 1), preceded (folio i) by a letter, 1931, to G W Crawford declining the music, and some leaves of the libretto;(ii) Vocal score of a song 'O gin my love were yon red rose' from the Head Manuscript, used in 'Cardinal Beaton', the full score of which is MS.21963 (folio 21);(iii) Vocal score of 'Fenella', the full score of which is MS.21964...
Dates: [?1892-?1941.]