Archives and Manuscript Catalogue

Scope and Contents What Alexander Skinner presented was, it seems, the blank volume, cf. MS.3745. The music was almost certainly written by Duncan Campbell.According to a note (folio ii) by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society, Duncan Campbell left at least two manuscripts, one referred to simply as Duncan Campbell's Manuscript in the publications of the Piobaireachd Society, the other, this, an incomplete and probably unrevised copy of the first. The...

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This is the earliest known manuscript of pipe-music in which modern staff notation is used. It is now known as the Highland Society of London's manuscript and is described in Book I (1925) of the Piobaireachd Society's publications (page ii, number 2).

At the beginning of the volume is a note on the manuscript by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society (folio iii verso).

Scope and Contents Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....

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The contents are as follows: ‘Canntaireachd: articulate music’ by John Francis Campbell (Glasgow, 1880), with manuscript notes, [1880, or after], by Alexander K Cameron (MS.9614);

"Collection of piobaireachd or pipe tunes as verbally taught by the M'Crummen Pipers" by Neil MacLeod (Edinburgh, 1880), with manuscript corrections by Simon Fraser, and other notes by Alexander K Cameron, [1880, or after] (MS.9615).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume I] (MS.1681), 94 frames;Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume II] (MS.1682), 105 frames;Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume III] (MS.1683), 86 frames;"Index to Angus MacKay's MS", [1892, or after] (MS.1684);Transcript of Angus Mackay's 'Specimens of Canntaireachd', of...

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The contents are as follows: Volume of Scottish music, [1838], comprising airs, Lowland and Highland, songs, dances, a pibroch, etc. (MS.2086);

Book of dance tunes, [circa 1765], chiefly arranged for the English guitar or the cittern (MS.5449).

Scope and Contents The volume, that is, the blank volume, was presented to Donald Cameron by Alexander Corbit, 5 May 1859; and Donald may have written the first few pages. But most of the volume, according to a note (folio i) by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society, appears to have been written by Colin Cameron; the last piobaireachd is described as having been 'noted by Colin Cameron, Nov. 22nd 1869' (folio 77 verso).The sources of the first 46 tunes are...

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The tunes were selected, according to Angus Mackay's own note (folio ii), 'from the original manuscript in his possession as noted down by him [in staff notation] from the Canntaireachd of John Mackay his father from the year 1826 to 1840'. These 'original MSS' are the first two of the six described in 'The history and art of Angus Mackay', numbers 5-7; see MSS.3753-3754.

Scope and Contents The title is taken from folio 1, a vellum leaf.Some items found loosely enclosed have been tipped or pasted in.The work consists of an introduction (folio 6) preceded by prefatory poems (folio 2), and eight sections: Old highland airs (folio 39), Clan tunes (folio 90), Jacobite airs (folio 131), Battle tunes (folio 159), Laments (folio 209), Old Scottish airs (folio 223), Army tunes (folio 244) and General marches (folio 276).There are two unrelated items:...