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Music book of M Carter, containing the words and melodies (occasionally with bass) of songs from late 17th- and early 18th-century operas.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.20
Scope and Contents

Composers include Handel, Henry and Daniel Purcell, Pepusch, Leveridge, Carey, Hayden etc. The collection also contains English country dances arranged for violin, and scraps of poetry by Milton, Pope, and others. The name M Carter, and the date 1719 appear inside the front cover.

Dates: 1719-circa 1750.

Papers of and concerning the poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26721-26792
Scope and Contents Born in Elderslie and educated in Tarbert Loch Fyne, Edinburgh and Oxford, George Campbell Hay spent most of his life in Edinburgh, but preserved a lifelong attachment to Kintyre, and in particular to Tarbert. Much of his poetry is a celebration of Kintyre, the land and its people, particularly the fishermen. Most of these poems had been written between 1938 and 1945 and already published in periodicals; they include translations from eleven languages. Hay's most important work,...
Dates: [Circa 1925]-1987, undated.

Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.9.1-81.9.12
Dates: Late 17th century-?1829.

Papers of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14884-14889
Scope and Contents Gaelic manuscripts of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940), third daughter of John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray, 7th duke of Atholl (1840-1917). Having learned Gaelic in her youth, she collected 240 Gaelic folk tales in Perthshire (the manuscripts now held in Blair Castle), and also left behind notebooks of Gaelic songs and other Gaelic material. The contents are as follows.MS.14884. Songs copied from McLagan Collection; small collection of hymns...
Dates: Late 19th century-early 20th century.

Photocopy of manuscript draft of song of Robert Burns, "She says She Lo`es Me Best of a`".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8079
Scope and Contents

24 lines in two stanzas, written in pencil.

Dates: circa 1780-circa 1796.

Scottish music, songs and dances.

 File
Identifier: MS.6298
Dates: [1827, or after]-1916.

Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.3
Scope and Contents Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...
Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.

Twenty songs and choruses of George Frideric Handel, composer.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6301 [BH.Add.48]
Scope and Contents

The works are from the oratorios "Alexander's Feast", 'Samson', 'Deborah', 'Occasional Oratorio', 'Saul', 'Susanna', 'Judas Maccabaeus', and the "Ode for St Cecilia's Day", in vocal score; with two marches, from the 'Occasional Oratorio', and 'Judas Maccabaeus', arranged for keyboard. They are written in a professional hand, and most of them include a note of performance time.

The music begins on folio 7, the preceding folios containing a contents list.

Dates: 1733-1749.

Typescript libretto and manuscript musical sketches for opera of Learmont Drysdale, "Flora Macdonald".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4694
Scope and Contents

With manuscript arrangements of eight Scots songs.

Dates: circa 1903.

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