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Agnes Hume`s music book.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.17
Scope and Contents The music book contans 15 pieces possibly for guitar, four common psalm tunes, and eight songs, with the later addition of some Scots tunes for violin. The guitar tunes (folios 1-4 verso) are written on a six line stave. The songs (folios 14 verso-17 verso, 8-9 - the correct arrangement) include:‘There is a lady sweet and kind’ by Thomas Ford (folio 15 verso);‘Gather your Rosebuds’, a setting of Robert Herrick`s poem (folio 16);`I...
Dates: Circa 1704.

Annotated copy of J L Campbell and Francis Collinson, "Hebridean Folksongs" (1969).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9003
Scope and Contents

With five letters, 1979, of Campbell to Collinson.

Dates: 1969-1979.

Autograph manuscript of `The fair Unfortunate; or, the Tragedy of Jane Douglas, the Lady Glamis’, an unpublished drama in blank verse by Alexander Campbell, the editor Of ‘Albyn’s Anthology’.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.22
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is undated, but another hand has added the date 27 November, 1819 (folio 89 verso).

Two sheets of musical accompaniment to songs in the text have been inserted (folios 41, 51).

Tipped in at the front of the volume is a letter, 1821, from the proprietors of Covent Garden Theatre, rejecting the play.

Dates: 1819.

Collection of Scottish poems and Jacobite songs.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.44
Scope and Contents

The majority of the poems are anonymous but there are two by Allan Ramsay, one by Jonathan Swift, and one attributed to Colley Cibber. Several of the other poems have been printed and some appear in ‘First Line Index of English Poetry’. A list of these poems is inserted at the beginning of the volume.

Apart from the poems there are several pages written in a cypher and folios 71-73 contain dressmaking accounts, dated 1722-1729, in a different hand.

Dates: Early 18th century.

Commonplace book of Donald Mackay, 1848, containing miscelleanous texts including medical prescriptions, texts of religious instruction, songs partly with music, and Gaelic songs, partly composed by Mackay himself.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14338
Content Description Commonplace book dated 1848, paginated by the scribe 1-732, 781-790, blank after page 727. A leather label pasted onto the front paste-down reads "Donald McKay 1848". The scribe was possibly the Rev. Donald Mackay (1829-1910), a native of Creich, Sutherland, minister of various parishes including Paisley and Nova Scotia. From 1848-1853, around the time of writing of the commonplace book, he was schoolmaster in Ullapool. If Mackay's identity could be confirmed, this time scale might explain...
Dates: 1848.

Copies, 17th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall`s renderings in Latin verse of the Psalms and the Song of Solomon.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.12
Scope and Contents

The original was probably written after 1616, since it includes a dedicatory poem to Charles I as Prince of Wales.

Dates: ?After 1616.

Copies of 12 songs of Meta Maclean.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6730
Scope and Contents

With associated photographs and press cuttings.

Dates: 1925-1939.

Correspondence and papers of the Hume family, chiefly of Alexander and William, musicians and songwriters.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11764
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts of two songs to settings by Alexander Hume.

Dates: 1852-1913 and undated.

Eight letters and the words of a song of John Hay Beith to Miss E Spartali.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9748
Scope and Contents

Letters concern literary matters.

Dates: 1907-1911.

Extracts, 1839, from the lute book, 1627-1629, of Robert Gordon of Straloch, transcribed in tablature by George Farquhar Graham.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.18
Scope and Contents

The manuscript consists of 30 pieces for lute, some dances, some song tunes, mostly Scottish, but including William Basse`s

`Hunter`s Career` (folios 18 verso-19). It includes an introduction giving a history of the original manuscript, some explanation of lute

tablature, and a list of the original contents.

Robert Gordon`s original manuscript is now lost.

Dates: 1839.

Four manuscript music books, collected by William Arnot Watterston.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11680
Scope and Contents

Books contain four part arrangements for violin, cello and flute of 230 airs, songs, reels and strathspeys.

Dates: circa 1869-1883.

Four music books.

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Identifier: Acc.12347
Scope and Contents

Collection of 11 reels or marches and seven songs, transcribed/belonging to Margaret Robertson; "Of notes and there [sic] lengths", belonging to John Johnston; collection of 49 songs or reels for harpsichord, holograph Charlotte Ellis; volume of 28 tunes with ownership mark of Charlotte Ellis.

Dates: Late 18th century to early 19th century.

Gaelic songs and music, with some translations, collected and arranged by Duncan M Morison, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.

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Identifier: Acc.11209
Scope and Contents

Includes musical pieces composed by Morison.

Dates: early 20th century.

Jacobite Papers.

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Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.

Dates: 1645-1891.

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Songs. Musical compositions. 77
Manuscripts. 16
Poetry. 16
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Notes. 5
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Diaries. 4
Histories. 4
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Illustrations. Layout features. 3
Lists. 3
Notebooks. 3
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Transcripts 3
Accounts. 2
Albums. 2
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Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 2
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 2
Genealogies. 2
Jacobite Rebellions. 2
Journals. Accounts. 2
Lectures. 2
Operas. Performances 2
Reports 2
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Jacobitism. 1
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Language
Multiple languages 3
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 2
Latin 1
 
Names
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 4
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 3
Soutar, William (poet) 3
Lauder, Sir Henry MacLennan, Knight, comedian, 1870-1950 2
MacRitchie, George, son of William, Minister of Clunie, b 1803: transcriber 2
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MacRitchie, William, Minister of Clunie, 1754-1837 2
Robertson, Margaret, compiler of collection of reels and songs, fl 1760-1840. 2
Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 51st (Highland) Division 1
Associates, rock band 1
Banks, Helen, Haddington, fl 1770-1800. 1
Beith, John Hay, writer, pseudonym Ian Hay, 1876–1952 1
Blackie, John Stuart (Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh) 1
Blythman, Morris, 1919-1981 (poet and editor, pseudonym Thurso Berwick) 1
Cadell, Patrick, Keeper of the Records of Scotland, 1941-2010 1
Campbell, John Lorne, scholar of Scottish Gaelic folklore, 1906-1996 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984: recipient 1
Collinson, Thomas Henry, organist at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, 1858-1928 1
Corrie, Joseph, miner and playwright, 1894-1968 1
Craigmount School for Girls, Edinburgh 1
Dickie, James Fowlie, fiddler and mason, 1886-1983 1
Drysdale, George John Learmont, composer, 1866-1909 1
Ellis, Charlotte, former owner of volume of 28 tunes, fl 1760-1840. 1
Ewart, Thomas A, composer, Oban, fl 1900-1950 1
Feitis, Bertha, collector of music, fl 1900: transcriber 1
Fet, Afanasy, 1820-1892 (poet) 1
Gladstone, Mary Selina (daughter of Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet of Fasque and Balfour) 1
Gordon, Harry, singer and comedian, 1893-1957 1
Gourock Primary School 1
Grant, Mary, of Cullen House, fl 1750. 1
Grant, Patrick, 1783-1867 (minister of the Baptist church at Granton-on-Spey, Gaelic poet) 1
Hamilton, Janet, co-writer of "Edinburgh Nonsense", fl 1939 1
Hamilton, John, co-writer of "Edinburgh Nonsense", fl 1939 1
Henderson, John Murdoch, musician, 1902-1972 1
Heseltine, Philip Arnold, music scholar and composer, pseudonym Peter Warlock, 1894-1930 1
Hillhead High School, Glasgow, secondary school 1
Hume, Alexander, poet and composer, 1811-1859 1
Hume, Andrew, Dunbar, fl 1875-1878 1
Hume, William, musician and songwriter, d 1897 1
Hume, family 1
Hyslop, Archibald Forbes, HM Inspector of Schools, Scotland, alias Forbes Hazelwood, 1892-1943 1
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 1
Johnston, John, former owner of "Of notes and there [sic] lengths", fl 1760-1840. 1
Jüngst, Hugo Richard, composer, 1853-1923 1
Lawrence, Timothy, Music Division, National Library of Scotland, fl 1990-2009 1
Liszt, Franz, composer, 1811-1886 1
Loewe, Johann Carl Gottfried, composer, 1796-1869 1
MacCallum, John, policeman, Glasgow, 1851-1926 1
MacDonald, John (minister of Ferintosh) 1
MacInnes, Andrew, Charlotteville, Norfolk, Canada, 1809-1891: author 1
MacInnes, Andrew, Saint William, Ontario, Canada, fl.1928: author 1
MacLeod, Norman, 1783-1862 ("Caraid nan Gaidheal") 1
Macintyre, James, of Glenoe, 1727-1799 1
Mackay, Donald (possibly Reverend.) 1
Mackenzie, Grace (Gaelic spiritual poet, Badenoch) 1
Mackenzie, William MacArthur, popular singer and songwriter, 1957-1997 1
Maclean, Meta, composer, fl 1925-1976 1
Macleod, Kenneth (minister of Colonsay and Oronsay and folklorist) 1
Macrae, John Duncan Graham, actor, 1905-1967 1
Matheson, William, Reader Emeritus in Celtic, University of Edinburgh, 1910-1995 1
McPhie, Douglas S, chartered surveyor, Edinburgh, fl 1997-2009 1
Morison, Duncan M (musician) 1
Morison, Duncan M, musician, Stornoway, ? 1906-1998: collector 1
Musgrave, Thea, composer, b 1928 1
Rankine, Alan, musician, b 1958 1
Robertson, James, compiler of book of Scottish fiddle tunes, fl 1770-1799. 1
Robertson, Margaret, compiler of collection of reels and songs, fl 1760-1840: transcriber 1
Salisbury, Bishop of 1
Schubert, Franz, composer, 1797-1828 1
Scott, Alicia Anne, Lady John Scott, née Spottiswoode, 1810-1900 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Shanks, Alastair, Port Ellen, Islay, fl 1969-1983 1
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, antiquary, 1781-1851 1
Sharpe, Charles, of Hoddam, formerly Kirkpatrick, c 1738-1813 1
Shepheard, Pete (Springthyme Records owner and Founder member of Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland (TMSA)) 1
Skinner, James Scott (composer) 1
Springthyme Recrords 1
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 1
Stewart, Thomas, music-seller, Edinburgh, fl 1900-1940 1
Sutherland Estates 1
Swaffer, Hannen, journalist, 1879-1962 1
Thomson, James, poet, 1700-1748 1
Watterston, William Arnot, Secretary of University College, Dundee, 1855-1927: collector 1
Wilcox, Robert, Dunbar, fl 1878 1
Wimberley, Douglas Neil, Major-General, 1896-1983 1
Winton, Andrew S, art teacher, 1917-2001 1
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