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Airs of songs and ballads collected, chiefly in Buchan, with a few from Angus and elsewhere, by George Riddell, Rosehearty (died 1942).
Accounts of George Riddel's life will be found in MS.3042, inside the front cover.
Autograph scores of musical compositions by David Stephen, Director of Music to the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Autograph vocal scores of works by Hamish MacCunn.
‘Collection of Ballads, collected chiefly from tradition, by R. Pitcairn . . . Commenced Edinr., 1817', and containing later dates down to 1823.
The verse is accompanied by notes by Robert Pitcairn.
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany.
Lady John Scott collection of music, chiefly Scottish.
The collection consists of manuscript music composed or collected by Lady John Scott (Alicia Anne Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, died 1900, wife of Lord John Douglas Scott), much of it being in her autograph.
Lady Louisa Stuart's ballad, "Ugly Meg, or, The Robber's Wedding" ('Muckle-mouthed Meg'), in Sir Walter Scott's hand.
The ballad is undated, but is written on paper watermarked 1805.
There are some words and phrases in another hand in places where the original writing has been deleted.
With a frontispiece in watercolour and a tailpiece in pencil.
Letter of Sir Walter Scott to Alexander Pringle of Whytbank, containing a version of the ballad of the Scotts of Whitslade, pasted in a copy of Captain Walter Scot of Satchells, 'A true history of several honourable families of the right honourable name of Scot’ (Edinburgh, 1776), presented to Pringle by Sir Walter Scott.
Sir Walter Scott states that he has a copy of the ballad in a hand of the seventeenth century.
Letters chiefly of Scottish interest.
Letters to Sir Walter Scott, chiefly to the Ballantynes, with several to other persons.
The letters are chiefly unconnected. Among them is the 'Imitation of the beginning of a Morlachian ballad' (Goethe's 'Klaggesand von der edlen Frauen des Asan-Aga), 1807 (folio 5).
Literary and family papers of Sir Alexander Gray (1882-1968), Professor of Political Economy at Aberdeen and later at Edinburgh University.
Sir Alexander Gray published several volumes of his own poems and of translations of European ballads, and his literary papers consist of his work in these fields.
Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.
Manuscripts, 1850, 1869, of two slightly different versions of the ballad 'The Cantie Carlie', with correspondence and notes, 1869, 1885.
The ballad is said to have been composed by the Reverend Gavin Mitchell, circa 1767.
Microfilm of assorted music, and notes on music and songs, chiefly Scottish.
The contents are as follows:
Notes, 1826-1827, of Lady John Scott on music, and songs, chiefly Scottish (MS.842);
Airs, 1824, chiefly of ballads, also of marches, etc., dedicated to Sir Walter Scott by Andrew Blaikie (MS.1578);
Copies of songs, dances, and other tunes, arranged for violin, made by members, relatives, and friends of the family of Brown, residing at Linkwood, Elgin, late 18th century (MS.3378).
Microfilm of correspondence of Henrietta Rhodes concerning the ballad 'Oh Nanny wilt thou gang with me' by Thomas Percy, including printed texts of the ballad and the music for it and manuscripts of poems in imitation of it.
Microfilm of eight ledgers of Alasdair Gray, containing work notes for stories, poems, plays, and his last novel, with draft of letters and many diary entries.
Microfilm of Leyden Song Book, a collection of songs, instrumental pieces, and psalms, possibly compiled by Williane Stirling, with later additions.
Microfilm of "The Ship o' the Fiend" and a setting of James Hyslop’s poem “The Cameronian's dream”, by Hamish MacCunn.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts.
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 17th-18th century, of bardic fragments, containing a strong element of MacMhuirich poetry (Adv.MS.72.2.2);
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany, [circa 1798] (Adv.MS.72.3.2);
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, 17th century, (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs.(MS.1745).
Microfilm of three notebooks, undated, of William Motherwell, the first containing 'The crust of comfort being a short treatise expressly written for the instruction and edification of Old Maids by Jacob Ebenezer Jogtrot B.A. of Brazen Nose College Oxford', the other two miscellaneous poems, copies of ballads, and other notes.
Microfilm of two manuscripts of ballads collected by Mrs Anne Brown, wife of the minister of Falkland.
One ballad was given by Anne Brown to William Tytler in 1783, the other to Alexander Fraser Tytler in 1800; both were used by Sir Walter Scott for ‘The minstrelsy of the Scottish Border’, but only the latter was available to Francis J Child for his ‘The English and Scottish popular ballads’ (see volume 5, page 397).