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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).
Series
Identifier: MSS.3041-3043
Scope and Contents
Accounts of George Riddel's life will be found in MS.3042, inside the front cover.
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2955-2956
Dates:
1589-1881.
Arrangement, in a nineteenth-century hand, for two pianofortes, of Concerto Number 3 in G major from the set of six Concerti Grossi by George Frideric Handel first published in 1734.
Item
Identifier: MS.21847
Dates:
19th century.
Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.
File
Identifier: MS.22151
Scope and Contents
A leaf is torn out after folio 16.
What appears to be an extract from ‘Variazioni’ by Luciano Berio is written at folio 20.
Dates:
1969.
Autograph manuscript, undated, of 'Three Scottish songs' arranged for voices, strings, piano and timpani by Gordon Jacob.
Item
Identifier: MS.21832
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Autograph musical scores of David Dorward containing sketches and some final versions of works for various combinations of instruments, including voices.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22144-22145
Scope and Contents
Two of the pieces are dated 1961 and 1967. The remainder, though undated, appear to have been written at about the same period.
Dates:
1961, 1967, undated.
Autograph score, 1953, of ‘Sonata for violoncello and piano’ by Hans Gál.
Item
Identifier: MS.22150
Scope and Contents
The score bears a few corrections, one of which is written on a scrap of paper (folio 13) pasted to folio 14. Folio 15 consists of two leaves pasted together.
Dates:
1953.
Autograph score of the overture “Tam o' Shanter”, Opus 51, by Malcolm Arnold, bearing several marks from use in performance.
Item
Identifier: MS.21863
Dates:
1955.
Autograph score of 'Three Songs of Night' for baritone and strings, composed by Leon Coates from ‘Pomes Penyeach’ by James Joyce, for the Music Society of St Peter's College, Oxford.
Item
Identifier: MS.21879
Dates:
1967.
Autograph scores of musical compositions by David Stephen, Director of Music to the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22153-22162
Scope and Contents
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Dates:
1899-1943, undated.
Autograph second draft with alterations and additions of short score of Concerto for String Orchestra, opus 39, by Kenneth Leighton, when Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Item
Identifier: MS.21977
Dates:
[Circa 1960.]
Autograph settings by Robin Orr of “The Kimmers o' Cougate” and Three Songs of Innocence by William Blake.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.22016
Dates:
1929, 1955.
Autograph vocal scores of works by Hamish MacCunn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21979-21980
Dates:
[Before 1890, before 1891.]
Band parts of Scottish dance tunes originally the property of Jockie Reid, a dance band leader and dancing instructor.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21828-21831
Scope and Contents
Each volume contains a number of additional pieces on loose sheets which have been tipped in, but the latter half of each volume is blank.
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Carefully written copy in an apparently early eighteenth-century hand of 'A S[t] Cecilia[s] song by Mr H Purcel', a setting for wind, strings, kettledrum and voices by Henry Purcell of Nicholas Brady's "An ode on St Cecilia's Day, 1692".
Item
Identifier: MS.21842
Scope and Contents
The copy appears to be almost complete, lacking only the latter part of the final Grand Chorus, even though many of the leaves are mutilated, the top and bottom staves (which were apparently unused) having been cut out, leading occasionally to the loss of the greater part of the leaf.
Dates:
1692.
Collection, made in the eighteenth century, of Jacobite songs, odes, satirical verse, etc.
File
Identifier: MS.2910
Scope and Contents
The collection is divided into 'Choice Poems, &c., on Several Occasions preceeding 1745' and 'Poems composed since the Attempt, 1745', and contains poems by Alexander Robertson of Strowan, Dryden, Montrose, Dr Archibald Pitcairne, and others, with a few ascribed to William Hamilton of Bangour, and many by 'Valerius' and other anonymous writers.At the end (folio 39 verso) is a Jacobite calendar, below which are the names Margaret Lowther and Almaria Trueworth, with a Royalist...
Dates:
1662-1749, undated.
'Collection of the ancient martial music of Caledonia’ by Donald Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1822), with the signature of Peter Reid dated Glasgow 1826, a poem in his hand, and other material bound in at the back.
File
Identifier: MS.22118
Scope and Contents
Peter Reid's signature is on the flyleaf (folio i) and the poem in his hand on the recto of page 2 of the 'Instructions'.Bound in at the back are:(i) Leaves ruled for music on most of which Reid has written out additional tunes, below which, on some of the leaves, are marginalia, parts of which have been lost due to trimming of the leaves (folio 1);(ii) Unruled leaves on which he has written various poems and songs (folio 35), and a list of the clans of...
Dates:
1822-1826
'Collection of the Best and Most Favourite Tunes For the Violin. In four Parts. Also an Introduction with Directions for Playing the Violin. Perth. Collected and Transcribed by lames Gillespie'; with original binding.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.808
Dates:
1768.
Collections of music for flute and fife.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21733-21744
Dates:
[Circa 1795]-1835, undated.
Composer's original manuscript of Trio Concertante and Intermezzo Concertante by Jaroslav Maštaliř, both for clarinet, basset horn and piano, Opus 35, numbers I and II.
Item
Identifier: MS.21866
Dates:
1940.
Compositions of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Ewing, author of ‘Jerusalem the Golden’, consisting of part-songs, anthems, exercises for the choir, and solos.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1785-1786
Scope and Contents
The lyrics of some of the pieces were written by the composer's wife, Juliana Horatia Ewing.
Dates:
1860-1876, undated.
Contemporary copy of the score of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21857-21858
Dates:
1853.
Copy in a contemporary hand of the score of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi.
Item
Identifier: MS.21856
Scope and Contents
‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi was first performed in 1853.
Dates:
1853.
Copy in an apparently twentieth-century hand of the piano score of ‘Don Quichotte’, a ballet by Petipa to music by Minkus, which was first performed in 1869.
Item
Identifier: MS.21860
Scope and Contents
The markings and deletions in pencil and crayon are presumably in the hand of Th. Wassileff, whose name is stamped on the flyleaf and elsewhere in the score.
Dates:
[?1869.]