Tunes collected by Donald Stuart Macdonald, Pipe Major, 1st Battalion Royal Scots, and written down in 1882.
Dates
- Creation: 1882.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
2 Volumes ; Folio.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Custodial History
The tunes are principally copies which Donald Stuart Macdonald made from Angus Mackay's manuscripts of piobaireachd music, with a view to publishing the tunes not included by Mackay in his ‘Collection of ancient Piobaireachd’, an intention which he never carried out (see MS.3111, folio 1).
Although most of the tunes from Angus Mackay's manuscripts have since been published by Major-General Thomason in his ‘Ceol mor’, or by the Piobaireachd Society, this collection remains of interest in giving a slightly different interpretation of some tunes.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1939, by Alexander Morrison, M.B, C.M., Edinburgh.
Bibliography
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
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Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
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