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:
Gaelic and Irish songs and some of George Campbell Hay's poems set to music., 1947.
File
Identifier: MS.26743
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
George Campbell Hay was a self-taught piper and by 1940 had acquired an impressive repertoire of songs. In the late 1930's he began to compose settings both for his own and traditional poems. Some of the settings of the poems set to music are traditional.
Dates:
1947.
Gaelic poetry and a Deed of Renunciation, apparently from the papers of Colonel Robert Bruce Aeneas McLeod Sutherland.
File
Identifier: MS.14875
Scope and Contents
The poems are apparently from the papers of the donor, Norman Kent’s grandfather Colonel Robert Bruce Aeneas McLeod Sutherland (died 1887). The latter’s father, Captain Alexander Sutherland, was brought up at Sciberscross, Strath Brora, received his commission in 78th (Seaforth) Regiment in 1794, and served as a recruiting officer throughout Scotland.The contents are as follows.(i) Deed of Renunciation of Barbara Guthrie, wife of James Sutherland of Evelix, 1713...
Dates:
1st half of 18th century, undated.
Gaelic songs and music, with some translations, collected and arranged by Duncan M Morison, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
File
Identifier: Acc.11209
Scope and Contents
Includes musical pieces composed by Morison.
Dates:
early 20th century.
Gairdyn manuscript: a collection of songs, marches, minuets, sarabands, country dances, etc., 1710, 1729, 1735, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3298 [Glen.37]
Scope and Contents
Of most tunes, only a few bars are given. On folio iv are verses beginning 'Than what shall be done with this traitor in grain' and 'When fierce Renegado cam first to the toun'. A short 'Inventar of household plenishing' appears on folio 42 verso. The dates 1710, 1729, and 1735 occur on folios 40, 40 verso, and 51.
Dates:
1710, 1729, 1735, undated.
‘Gem selection: Scottish songs’ edited by Alfred W Tomlyn, 7th edition (Edinburgh, undated); signed, with an autograph portrait sketch, Perth, 1928, of himself by Sir Harry Lauder; with other signatures inside the front cover.
Item
Identifier: MS.21833
Dates:
1928.
Genealogical notes on members of the Faculty of Advocates, 1751-1800, compiled by John Philp Wood., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.2.9
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood.
Genealogical notes on members of the Faculty of Advocates, 1800-1835, compiled by John Philp Wood., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.2.10
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood.
‘[Gospel Sonnets] or Spiritual Songs’, in the autograph of the Reverend Ralph Erskine, preceded and followed by matter in shorthand.
File
Identifier: MS.1015
Scope and Contents
Two versions of part vi, chapter v, section 1, ‘In heavenly quires a question rose’, are given (folios 119, 122).
Dates:
Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
Groups of undated songs, untitled tunes, and notes by Joe Corrie., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.26539
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.
Hymns of Dugald Buchanan and songs of unidentified poets., ca. 1760
Item
Identifier: MS.14851
Scope and Contents
The booklet contains versions of three hymns of Buchanan, who is not identified as the poet, and a few other items. On the relationship between the versions of Buchanan's hymns with manuscripts of the same texts found in McLagan MS Gen 1042/20 and 1042/4, Glasgow University Library, see Donald Meek, 'Dugald Buchanan (1716-68): the poet, the translator, and the manuscript evidence. The Canna Lecture 2016' (Scottish Gaelic Texts Society 2019), esp. pp. 20-25. Formerly...
Dates:
ca. 1760
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Gaelic songs and verse.
Jacobite Papers.
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Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Jacobite papers collected by Sir Henry Steuart, titled, 'M.S.S. Jacobite II'., 1700-1869, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1696
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These papers are part of the collection which was formed by Sir Henry Steuart with a view to composing a ‘History of the Efforts in behalf of the House of Stuart from the Revolution onwards’, together with papers on the Stuarts and the rebellions which were acquired by Robert Chambers, and notes on persons and events of the period by him.The papers consist of originals and copies; most of them have been incorporated in Robert Chambers’ books or in articles written by him for...
Dates:
1700-1869, undated.
Jacobite songs written chiefly by Charles Stuart Davidson; with related notes and press cuttings.
File
Identifier: MS.21834
Scope and Contents
The volume contains songs written ‘in Ceylon in 1866’ (folio ii) by Charles Stuart Davidson and further songs added until 1899 (folio 262). These are followed by notes (folio 268) on several of the songs. A number of related press cuttings found loosely enclosed have been tipped in after the notes (folio 316) and other press cuttings are pasted in among the notes.It is not clear whether the compiler is the C S Davidson who is described as clerk in the Edinburgh Directory from...
Dates:
1866-1899.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3806
Scope and Contents
In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...
Dates:
1729-19th century.
Journal of a continental tour of Andrew MacInnes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13701
Scope and Contents
Journal of a tour to France, Switzerland and Germany by Andrew MacInnes and `Richard`. At the back of the volume are accounts of expenses on the tour, mileages and a number of Scottish songs. The notebook is bound in a larger twentieth century volume together with a full transcript and a letter of 1928 of Andrew MacInnes, Saint William, Ontario, Canada, son of the diarist, to his nephew Clayton McCall donating the journal to him. Andrew MacInnes and his companion...
Dates:
1830
"Journal of a few days from home in the summer of 1856 with selected poetry and songs".
Item
Identifier: MS.9233
Scope and Contents
The author was born near Dover, and describes himself as a 'middle class man engaged in the business of life', possibly a doctor or lawyer. After a brief stay in Edinburgh, he visited Perth, Bannockburn, Callander, Inversnaid, Glasgow, Oban, Inveraray, and Rothesay, and returned again to Glasgow. The text is interspersed with poetry and songs, and is profusely illustrated with floral cut-outs, small prints, and water-colours, mainly of views. Three pages and some of the illustrations have...
Dates:
1856.
Journal of John Francis Campbell, in continuation of Adv.MS.50.2.2, containing Highland tales, poems and songs collected from various sources in the west of Scotland, particularly from Skye, most of them in English., 1870-1871.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.2.4
Scope and Contents
Several letters to Campbell have been included all enclosing contributions to the collection of Highland Literature. Also included are notes on ‘The Story of Art MacCuinn, King of Ireland’ (folio 111-137).
Dates:
1870-1871.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871.
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Collections of Tales for the ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’ project, with related correspondence and other papers.
Lady John Scott collection of music, chiefly Scottish.
Series
Identifier: MSS.834-843
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of manuscript music composed or collected by Lady John Scott (Alicia Anne Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, died 1900, wife of Lord John Douglas Scott), much of it being in her autograph.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Lecture notes and papers of John Stuart Blackie., Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2648
Scope and Contents
The papers concern:
(i) German literature, with translations of German poems and student-songs (folio 1);
(ii) Education (folio 152);
(iii) Language (folio 218).
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Letters and papers on various subjects., 1575-1824, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3135
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Discharge of Andro Hart, printer, to Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, 1592 (folio 1);(ii) Discharge of Robert Brysone, printer and bookseller, and Evan Tyler, printer, to Mr George Halyburton for liturgies delivered to the Chapel Royal, Edinburgh, 1637 (folio 2);(iii) Letter of the Earl of Mar to Thomas Kennedy, Lord Advocate of Scotland, demanding an immediate report on the presence of a French ship near Inverkeithing, 1714...
Dates:
1575-1824, undated.
Letters to, and documents concerning Bessie Kerr., 1911-1934, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21562
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Letters, 1918-1934, undated, to Bessie Kerr (folio 1); (ii) Press cuttings, circa 1922-1934, undated, concerning Bessie Kerr (folio 45); (iii) Manuscripts of songs, 1924, undated, composed for Bessie Kerr, with some settings of her own (folio 85); (iv) College and school certificates, 1911-1918, of Bessie Kerr (folio 119).
Dates:
1911-1934, undated.
Letters to and miscellaneous papers of Donald Alexander Mackenzie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19309-19310
Scope and Contents
An accomplished journalist, author, and poet, Donald Alexander Mackenzie is best known for a notable series of books on mythology, archaeology, and anthropology. His papers reflect his wide range of ability and interest.
Dates:
1909-1937.
Leyden Song Book: a collection of songs, instrumental pieces, and psalms, possibly compiled by Williane Stirling, with later additions.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are:1. 54 songs and instrumental pieces (folios 1-25 verso), of which the following have been identified:`My love bound me`, Robert Jones, ‘Second Book of Songs’, 1601 (folio 4 verso);`Do not O do not praise`, Robert Jones, ‘Ultimum Vale’, 1608 (folio 5);`There is none, O none but you`, Thomas Campion, ‘Second Book of Airs’, 1610 (folio 6);`Vaine men whose follies`, Thomas Campion, ‘Second Book of Airs’,...
Dates:
Circa 1639.
List of thirty-one Scots songs, both traditional ballads and poems by Burns and other authors, followed by arrangements of twenty-nine of them by David Stephen., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.22161
Scope and Contents
The arrangements are marked ‘second copies’ and have tonic sol-fa notation added in red.
The compilation was made for a tenor album, which does not appear to have been published, of ‘Folk songs of Scotland’ edited by David Stephen and Robert Burnett.
Dates:
Early 20th century.