Showing Browse Resources: 1 - 25 of 44
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.
Collections of music for flute and fife.
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.
Four music books.
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.
Manuscript copy, with art-work, of Andrew Winton`s "Twenty most Favourite Songs of Burns: with Music, Words and Notes on the Lasses to whom they were Written" (London, 1998).
Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Microfilm of a Panmure music book, a treble part book of seven dance pieces by 'Mr Simpsone' (Christopher Simpson?).
Microfilm of commonplace book of Robert Edward (1616-1696), minister of the Murroes
Microfilm of music book of Leonora M H Grant containing highland dance tunes.
Microfilm of Panmure music book, containing twenty-three pieces of music, chiefly dances, in French lute tablature.
Microfilm of Panmure music books.
Microfilm of Panmure music books containing; 'Pieces de viole de Mʳ Marais'; "Folies d'Espagne" by Marin Marais; and, transcripts of 111 pieces for bass viol by Jean de Ste Colombe.
Microfilm of the Panmure music book containing 'Arie diverse per il violino Preludij Alemande Sarabande Correnti Gighe Fantasie Sminuite ed altre Toccate a due corde composizione Di Nicola Matteis napolitano', being 110 pieces of music for violin and figured bass.
Microfilm of two musical manuscripts, [circa 1680], from the library at Newbattle Abbey; and, a Panumre music book, mid 17th century.
The contents are as follows:
Sixty-six pieces for violin, [circa 1680], (two in two parts), chiefly dances, with a further seven pieces in tablature (apparently for a three-stringed instrument) (MS.5777);
'Lessones for ye Violin', a collection of twenty-eight pieces for violin, [circa 1680], including dances, marches, a set of variations, and Scots airs (MS.5778);
Twenty-three pieces of music, chiefly dances, in French lute tablature, mid 17th century (MS.9451).
Microfilm of two Panmure music books.
The contents are as follows:
Music book, [circa 1640], of Lady Jean Campbell (MS.9449), 79 frames;
About 100 pieces of music, mid 17th century, chiefly dances, in French lute tablature (MS.9452), 61 frames.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Music book, compiled apparently towards the end of the eighteenth century, containing dances, marches and some songs.
Music book compiled by J Crichton Donaldson.
Music book containing Scottish dance tunes (very largely reels and strathspeys) for violin.
The music book is gold-stamped 'violin' on the front cover.
Many of the tunes appear to be of late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century provenance. The volume appears to have been compiled in the mid nineteenth century (cf., for example, folios 41, 47).
The leaves of the volume exhibit much handling, but the identity of the compiler is unknown. The volume is thought to have had a possible Perthshire provenance.
Music book of Helen Howorth Graham containing dances and other pieces.
The volume is little more than a fragment. At least one gathering appears to have been torn out before folio 1 and further leaves have been torn out after folios 7 and 9.
Music book of Henrietta Dundas Dalrymple Hamilton, daughter of Sir Hew, 4th Baronet of Bargany, later the Duchesse de Coigny.
The music book is dated 1816 on folio i. It contains, at the front, dance tunes and other pieces, and at the back, a beginner's musical exercises in pencil, followed by further compositions. The lower part of folio 11 has been cut out, and leaves have been torn out after folio 12 and folio 5 inverted.
Music book of Jessie Hamilton, Leith, containing a few dances and other pieces arranged for keyboard.
Folios 12, 21 verso, 70-77 contain a few songs in a later hand, or hands.
Music book of John Thompson Smith containing dance and song tunes for the German flute, 1810, and at the back, for the Spanish guitar, 1826.
Some music has been written in a later (possibly a child's) hand at folio 20.
Leaves have been torn out before folios 13, 22, 23, 26, and 28, and folios 13-19, 21-28 are blank.