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Four manuscript music books, collected by William Arnot Watterston.
Books contain four part arrangements for violin, cello and flute of 230 airs, songs, reels and strathspeys.
Fragmentary full score of ‘Tita’, the first opera by Ladislao Zavertal, composer and conductor.
The opera was produced at Treviso in 1870, and later rewritten and published as ‘Adriana’ (Lago di Como, 1930). The score, in the handwriting of Ladislao Zavertal’s father, Vaclav Hugo Zavertal, then Director of the Istituto Musicale of Treviso, appears to have been undergoing revision, and many pages have been discarded and replaced by others.
Full manuscript scores, 1930 and 1932, of Norman Porteous, "Britannia Invicta", a march for orchestra, and "The Mad Dog of Islington", a musical satire for chorus and orchestra.
With photocopy of letter, 1979, of Sir Adrian Boult to Elizabeth Crosby Cook, concerning Porteous.
Hannay-MacAuslan Piobaireachd Manuscript, attributed to Donald MacDonald.
Manuscript and printed copies of compositions of Cecil F Coles.
Manuscript and score of "Hammered Brass: A Collection of Studies for Brass Quintet and Percussion", with note by the composer, Robert Crawford.
Manuscript conducting score of the original version of Cedric Thorpe Davie`s music for the "Three Estates".
Manuscript draft and fair copy of the pipe tune of Andrew R Hunter, "The King of Norway`s Welcome to Riccarton".
Manuscript draft of Piano Concerto by Edward Harper.
Manuscript of "A Carlyle Suite, for Piano" by Ronald Stevenson.
Manuscript of a piece for piano of Gustav Ernest, "Fantasia ed Fuga Dramatica".
Manuscript of "Hungry Waters (for a little boy at Linlithgow)", a musical setting by Francis George Scott of verses by C M Grieve.
Manuscript of piobaireachd of Pipe Major Robert Meldrum.
Manuscript of pipe music, probably compiled in the Plockton district of Wester Ross.
Manuscript of Ronald Stevenson song cycle, "A Child`s Garden of Verses".
Makes use of Robert Louis Stevenson poems.
Manuscript of Strathspey and reel of A J Lawson.
Prize-winning entry in the Edinburgh Reel and Strathspey Society`s McInroy Cup, 1991.
Manuscript score, 1979, of Ronald Stevenson`s "Violin Concerto".
Includes note, 1992, of Yehudi Menuhin and three photographs taken at the first performance, Glasgow, 1992.
Manuscript score and printed copy of Marie Dare, "Menuet for Double Bass and Piano".
Manuscript score of Murray M W Adair setting of, The Auld Man", a poem by William Soutar.
Manuscript scores of Gaelic and Scots songs for the clarsach, by Jean Campbell.
Includes a copy of article (English translation) by Ank Van Campen on Jean Campbell.