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:
Microfilm of a Panmure music book containing seventy-seven pieces of music, dances, songs, and Scots airs, for violin.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.776
Dates:
[Circa 1675.]
Microfilm of assorted music, and notes on music and songs, chiefly Scottish.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.295
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Notes, 1826-1827, of Lady John Scott on music, and songs, chiefly Scottish (MS.842);
Airs, 1824, chiefly of ballads, also of marches, etc., dedicated to Sir Walter Scott by Andrew Blaikie (MS.1578);
Copies of songs, dances, and other tunes, arranged for violin, made by members, relatives, and friends of the family of Brown, residing at Linkwood, Elgin, late 18th century (MS.3378).
Dates:
Late 18th century-1827.
Microfilm of commonplace book of Robert Edward (1616-1696), minister of the Murroes
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.853
Dates:
[?1635-?1670.]
Microfilm of Irish and Scottish Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.653
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Book of the Dean of Lismore, 16th century (Adv.MS.72.1.37);
Manuscript, ?15th century-17th century, containing verse and tale fragments in Gaelic (Adv.MS.72.1.47);
Manuscript, 17th century, of syllabic verse (Adv.MS.72.1.48);
Manuscript, 1618-1647, containing Irish bardic verse (Adv.MS.72.1.49);
Manuscript, [circa 1658], containing historical miscellany in Gaelic, written by Niall MacMhuirich (Adv.MS.72.1.50).
Dates:
?15th century-17th century.
Microfilm of Leyden Song Book, a collection of songs, instrumental pieces, and psalms, possibly compiled by Williane Stirling, with later additions.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.230
Dates:
[Circa 1639.]
Microfilm of manuscripts in the collection of Scottish and other music formed by Alexander Wood Inglis, Secretary to the Board of Manufactures.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.297
Dates:
18th century-1st half of 19th century.
Microfilm of manuscripts of musical compositions of Percy Grainger.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.348
Scope and Contents
The content is as follows:
Manuscripts of musical compositions of Percy Grainger (Acc.3390);
Manuscript, photocopies and drafts of arrangements of works by Percy Grainger (Acc.3391).
Dates:
1900-1950.
Microfilm of manuscripts of pipe tunes and songs of Alastair Shanks.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.961
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Microfilm of ‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. V’, being mainly a continuation of the scripts and editorial material for inclusion in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1583
Dates:
1860-1861.
Microfilm of Panmure music books.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.441
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of seven dance pieces by 'Mr Simpsone' (Christopher Simpson?) (MS.9453);Seventy-seven pieces of music, dances, songs, and Scots airs, for violin, [circa 1675] (MS.9454);First treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of pieces of music, chiefly dances, for viols (MS.9455);Second treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of pieces of music, chiefly dances, for viols...
Dates:
3rd quarter of 17th century-[circa 1675].
Microfilm of Scottish music, [1838]; and, dance tunes, [circa 1765], chiefly arranged for the English guitar or the cittern.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.389
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Volume of Scottish music, [1838], comprising airs, Lowland and Highland, songs, dances, a pibroch, etc. (MS.2086);
Book of dance tunes, [circa 1765], chiefly arranged for the English guitar or the cittern (MS.5449).
Dates:
[Circa 1765, 1838.]
Microfilm of transcript made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.956
Dates:
1897.
Microfilm of various manuscripts of Robert Chambers, concerning Peebles and his parents and childhood, the ‘Annals of Scotland’, Scottish songs and geological notes.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.838
Dates:
[?1840-?1859.]
Microfilm of vocal score of settings by Hamish MacCunn of one hundred Scottish songs., [Before 1891.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1344
Microfilm of vocal scores of settings by, and an original manuscript of, Hamish MacCunn.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1343-1345
Dates:
[1888, or before-before 1891.]
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reel 4A., Late 18th century-mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1316
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Songs, late 18th century-mid19th century, chiefly in the autograph of Lady Nairne (MS.985);
Miscellaneous fragments, 1769-1873, in the autograph of Lady Nairne and others, including ‘Thoughts’, 1821, of Lady Nairne, and 'Recollections of Clevedon, etc., 1847', by Margaret Harriet Steuart (MS.986).
Dates:
Late 18th century-mid 19th century.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Minute book of the Edinburgh Skating Club., 1889-1966.
Item
Identifier: MS.24642
Scope and Contents
The minute book records regular meetings up to 1939, followed by the Secretary's memorandum of 1966 recommending the winding up of the club and the disposal of its property, with members' assents thereto (folios 78-82).
Additional material includes club songs for 1842 and 1843 (folios 136-137); the Glasgow Skating Club Rules, 1875; ‘The Edinburgh Skating Club, with diagrams of figures and a list of members’, (Edinburgh, 1875) (folios 138-150); ‘Skating diagrams’ by Charles A Stevenson, 1881...
Dates:
1889-1966.
Miscellaneous collection of music, and of lectures and writings (many fragmentary) on music, and on Scottish music in particular, by Francis George Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22019-22020
Dates:
1913-1951, undated.
Miscellaneous documents apparently from the library of the Reverend A J Macdonald, Minister of Killearnan., 17th century-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3784
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Gaelic texts of a tale and two songs (folio 1);(ii) Letters, notes, and texts of Gaelic poems from the Lochaber area, sent by the Reverend John Walker Macintyre, Minister of Kilmonivaig, to the Reverend A J Macdonald in 1911 (folio 6);(iii) Copies, made in 1897, of seventeenth-century papers belonging to the Earls of Antrim (folio 29);(iv) A letter and two documents relating to the Macdonalds of Sleat,...
Dates:
17th century-early 20th century.
Miscellaneous Gaelic songs and papers of Rose Ethel Bassin., 1931-1968.
File
Identifier: MS.14925
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Chiefly words, 1931-1967. Includes (folio 76) letter in Gaelic from Donald MacPhail, Inverness, 1955 (folio 1);
(ii) Word-sheets for school concerts, 1942-1948 (folio 79);
(iii) Music (including accompaniments), 1931-1968 (folio 116).Includes the following miscellaneous songs ‘Crodh Chailein’ (folios 1 recto, 157 recto); “Crònan Cuallaich” (folio 3 recto); ‘Ailein Duinn’ (folio 4 recto, 29 recto); ‘An Gille Dubh Ciar-dhubh’ (folio 5...
Dates:
1931-1968.
'Miscellaneous letters and documents', including many letters of the nobility, and official documents of the Restoration period., 1600, 1627-1832, 1881, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2956
Scope and Contents
The contents include: a song, 'Come all brave boys of the cappen trade', scribbled on the back of a draft deed of the seventeenth century (folio 52 verso); a manuscript copy of a pamphlet, ‘An Account of the Engagement on the Sheriff-Moor’, printed by Robert Freebairn (Perth, 1715), reproduced by Robert Patten in his ‘History of the late Rebellion’ (London, 1717), page 203, but not otherwise known (folio 25); a letter, 1746, of Lord Kames regarding David Hume's difficulties with the...
Dates:
1600, 1627-1832, 1881, undated.
Miscellaneous letters, papers, engravings and photographs of the Abercromby family., 1798-1887, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24774
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) An engraving (16 x 10.5 centimetres) by John Kay of Edinburgh, 1798, of General Sir Ralph Abercromby reviewing his troops (folio 1);
(ii) An engraving (18 x 11.5 centimetres) by Thomas Kelly of London, 1816, depicting the 'Death of Sir Ralph Abercrombie', 1801 (folio 2);
(iii) An engraving, (13 x 10.5 centimetres), undated, and artist not known, of a portrait of Sir Ralph Abercromby (folio 3);
(iv) A photograph, (13 x 10 centimetres), undated, by the Arundel...
Dates:
1798-1887, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family, political and personal correspondence and papers of the Abercromby family, chiefly of James Abercromby (1776-1858), 1st Baron Dunfermline, with some correspondence and papers of his wife Marianne (died 1874), and of their son Ralph, 2nd Baron and diplomatist (1803-1868), and his family.
Miscellaneous manuscripts.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript has been compiled from various sources. See the particular descriptions. Letters of presentation by or on behalf of the donors are included.
Dates:
1629-1921.