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Manuscripts in the Cecil Hopkinson Collection of Hector Berlioz.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3428-3429
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Manuscripts of pipe tunes and songs of Alastair Shanks.
File
Identifier: Acc.7496
Dates:
mid 20th century.
Manuscripts of the song, "An Immorality" and preliminary draft score of "Obliques", both of Thea Musgrave.
File
Identifier: Acc.4735
Dates:
1951-1958.
Microfilm of autograph score of the overture “Tam o' Shanter”, Opus 51, by Malcolm Arnold, bearing several marks from use in performance.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1023
Dates:
1955.
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 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.]
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.
Miscellany of music.
File
Identifier: MS.21850
Scope and Contents
The material consists of:(i) A setting, 1772, for voice and piano by John Collett of 'An ode in honour of the birthday of Andrew Crosbie' by John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn (folio 1);(ii) A copy, in an early nineteenth-century (apparently contemporary) hand, of Karl Czerny, 'Choix de Walses brillantes et faciles pour le piano-forte' (folio 11);(iii) A full score, in an apparently late eighteenth-century hand, of the aria 'Son confusa pastorella' from the...
Dates:
1745-early 19th century.
Music and other papers of John Davidson and James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22076-22077
Dates:
1896, 1917, 1922, undated.
Music belonging to Mary Grant, Cullen House.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11020
Scope and Contents
Includes pieces by Handel, San Martini, the Earl of Keely, and various songs.
Dates:
circa 1750.
Music book of James Robertson, with other music manuscripts of Margaret Robertson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12304
Scope and Contents
Music book of James Robertson, containing some 260 Scottish fiddle tunes (some possibly from printed sources); volume of harpsichord music of Margaret Robertson; collection of reels and songs of Margaret Robertson.
Dates:
circa 1770-1800.
Music of Robert Crawford for string quartet.
File
Identifier: MS.21975
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Autograph draft of String Quartet Number 1, opus 4 (folio 1), apparently begun in 1948 and completed in 1950 (folio 34 verso). The quartet was published in 1953. The music at folios 1-15 corresponds to the first two movements and that at folios 16-18, 19 to pages 17-19, 22-23 of the 3rd movement in the published score. The music at folios 20-30 seems to form no part of the published score, whilst that at folios 31-34, which is numbered 6, appears...
Dates:
1948-1957.
Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22022-22075
Dates:
1871-1926, undated.
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents
The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.
Dates:
Mid 20th century-1988, undated.
Operatic, instrumental, and vocal music by Learmont Drysdale (died 1909), much of it in the composer's autograph.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3199-3216
Dates:
Late 19th century-1909.
Orchestral, vocal and other music scores of Ian Whyte, and papers and music of his son, Don Whyte, chiefly undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22082-22094
Scope and Contents
Apart from the film music, which is datable to 1947-1948 from the accompanying correspondence and papers (MSS.22085-22086), almost all the music is undated; but from the ink used, some of it may be dated to about the same period.
Except where otherwise stated the music is written as for keyboard.
Dates:
1947-1960, undated.
Papers, 1846-1983 and undated, of and concerning James F Dickie, fiddler.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10389
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, photographs and music.
With letters and music, 1888-1924 and undated, of James Scott Skinner, and music, 1935-1968 and undated, of John Murdoch Henderson.
Dates:
1846-1983 and undated.
Papers of John MacCallum, policeman, Glasgow.
File
Identifier: Acc.12529
Scope and Contents
Includes Gaelic songs and music.
Dates:
circa 1890-1925.
Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21669-21713
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
17th century-1972.
Photocopy of the autograph score of ‘Five preludes for piano from a Brittany sketch book', an apparently unpublished work, undated, by Isobel V S Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: MS.22146
Dates:
?Mid 20th century.
Photocopy of "Thou O God art Praised in Sion" (an exercise for the degree of Mus Bac, Oxon, 1877) by Thomas H Collinson, father of Francis Collinson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11742
Dates:
1877.
Score and parts, undated, in the composer's hand, of 'Listy z Dálky' by Miroslav Krejčí, for two clarinets, basset horn and bass clarinet, Opus 63.
File
Identifier: MS.21865
Dates:
[?1938.]
Score and text of Jacobite song "Farweel to thee Charlie", said to be in the hand of Lady John Scott.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12667
Dates:
late 19th century.
Scores of John Purser's Opus 7 for Orchestra, 1964, and of the first movement of his Viola Concerto, undated, and sheets containing unidentified sketches, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22017
Dates:
1964, undated.
Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21983-22014
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 20th century, undated.