Songs. Musical compositions.
Found in 411 Collections and/or Records:
Booklet, 'Spirit - Locks', containing six songs for a seeress. Poems and text by Kathleen Jamie. Artwork and design by Kyra Clegg., Undated.
The box is covered in tartan.
Books of violin-music, chiefly of dances, Scottish and other, of Adam, John, and Thomas Cook., 1834-1883, undated.
Many of the tunes are stated to have been composed by Adam and John. The dates for each manuscript are mentioned at various places in the manuscript in question.
A note on the Cook family, to which Thomas Davidson Cook, the owner of the collection, belonged, is given at the end of MS.3103.
Books of violin-music of Adam Cook, Shettleston and Baillieston., 1834-1856.
Many of the tunes are stated to have been composed by Adam and John. The dates for each manuscript are mentioned at various places in the manuscript in question.
A note on the Cook family, to which Thomas Davidson Cook, the owner of the collection, belonged, is given at the end of MS.3103.
Box of Reverend William Matheson, containing papers of Reverend Dr Duncan M Campbell and collections of Gaelic songs and verse., circa 1878-1912, 1927, circa 1935, undated.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Box of the Reverend William Matheson, containing collections of 18th-19th century papers., 1707-1870.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Box of the Reverend William Matheson, containing collections of 19th century papers., mid-late 19th century.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Box of the Reverend William Matheson, containing collections of Gaelic songs and place-names., [?Late 19th century-early 20th century].
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Box of the Reverend William Matheson, containing three volume press cutting collection of Gaelic verse, prose and related articles from Highland newspapers and periodicals., Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Camera script for "Songs all the Way" (9), 1963
Camera script for episode 9 of a BBC television programme "Songs all the way", filmed on 1 December 1963 and broadcast on 11 December 1963. Featuring a selection of Gaelic songs performed by soloists and by Glasgow Islay Gaelic Choir, presented by Donald Thomson. [2], 25 ff.
Carefully written copy in an apparently early eighteenth-century hand of 'A S[t] Cecilia[s] song by Mr H Purcel', a setting for wind, strings, kettledrum and voices by Henry Purcell of Nicholas Brady's "An ode on St Cecilia's Day, 1692".
The copy appears to be almost complete, lacking only the latter part of the final Grand Chorus, even though many of the leaves are mutilated, the top and bottom staves (which were apparently unused) having been cut out, leading occasionally to the loss of the greater part of the leaf.
Cassette recording of 60 poems and 12 songs of William Soutar.
‘Ceol Mara: Songs of the Isle of Lewis’ (London, 1935), by Duncan Matheson Morison., 1935.
The material extracted from MSS.26276-26300 consists chiefly of typescripts of Hector MacIver’s plays and broadcasts.
Chamber music and songs of G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Choral music of G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Collection, made in the eighteenth century, of Jacobite songs, odes, satirical verse, etc.
'Collection of Ballads, collected chiefly from tradition, by R. Pitcairn . . . Commenced Edinr., 1817', volume II: Jacobite, comic, humorous and satirical songs., 1817-1823.
The Jacobite songs begin on page 1; the comic songs on page 109; the humorous and satirical songs on page 153; and the convivial songs on page 209.
Collection of epigrams, songs, copies of letters and documents, etc., relating to current events in France., 1712-1730.
Collection of poems, songs, letters, anecdotes, sermons, and prayers 'by David Dun, late Teacher of Dancing', Edinburgh., 1828-1829.
Two dates, 1828 and 1829, are given.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Collection of Scottish poems and Jacobite songs.
The majority of the poems are anonymous but there are two by Allan Ramsay, one by Jonathan Swift, and one attributed to Colley Cibber. Several of the other poems have been printed and some appear in ‘First Line Index of English Poetry’. A list of these poems is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
Apart from the poems there are several pages written in a cypher and folios 71-73 contain dressmaking accounts, dated 1722-1729, in a different hand.
Collection of songs and ballads, chiefly Scottish, in the handwriting of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe., 1824.
The songs and ballads are chiefly from manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott, Mrs Laing, Peter Buchan, and others unnamed.
'Collection of the ancient martial music of Caledonia’ by Donald Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1822), with the signature of Peter Reid dated Glasgow 1826, a poem in his hand, and other material bound in at the back.
Common place book of Robert Edward (1616-1696), minister of the Murroes; with original cover., [?1635-?1670.]
MSS.9447-9458 consist of Scottish and English music, and French lute music, all dating from before 1675. MSS.9459-9469 consist of French music brought to Scotland by James and Harie Maule after their visits to France between 1678 and 1683. MSS.9470-9475 are opera scores and parts acquired by James Maule when in exile in Italy after the 1715 rising.