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Full manuscript scores, 1930 and 1932, of Norman Porteous, "Britannia Invicta", a march for orchestra, and "The Mad Dog of Islington", a musical satire for chorus and orchestra.
File
Identifier: Acc.8048
Scope and Contents
With photocopy of letter, 1979, of Sir Adrian Boult to Elizabeth Crosby Cook, concerning Porteous.
Dates:
1930-1979.
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents
The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.
Dates:
Mid 20th century-1988, undated.
Papers and correspondence of Douglas Charles Parker.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21551-21561
Scope and Contents
D C Parker was an able amateur musician, and a professional writer on music, both as critic (1919-1934) on the ‘Evening Times’ of Glasgow, and as the biographer of Georges Bizet, and a contributor to many musical periodicals. His main enthusiasms were for the music of Wagner, Elgar, the French composers of the late 19th century, and for opera in general. His correspondence extends from his early contacts with Massenet and Saint Saëns, through to modern conductors such as Colin Davis. His...
Dates:
1902-1970.
Papers of and concerning Francis George Scott, composer.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12506
Dates:
1930-1992.
Photocopies of a notebook, early 20th century, of piobaireachd of Simon Fraser.
File
Identifier: Acc.11613
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies of letters, 1956-1968, between Pipe Majors William Gray and Hugh Fraser.
Dates:
circa 1900-1968.
Photocopies of autograph scores of four choral works by Shena Fraser.
File
Identifier: MS.22147
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Carillon’, a choral suite for women's or school choir and keyboard, 1956, which was published in 1958 (folio 1);(ii) 'To him give praise’, a choral suite for women's voices, strings and piano, 1959, which was published 1960 (folio 49);(iii) 'I saw a fair maiden’, for soprano, alto, tenor and bass, with tenor solo, which was published 1965 (folio 75); (iv) 'A quartette of carols', for treble voices and piano,...
Dates:
1956-[1965, or before], undated.
Photocopies of fiddle and pipe music, compiled by Sullivan Ross.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8984
Scope and Contents
Contains circa 1450 tunes including 32 piobaireachd.
Dates:
circa 1860-1900.
Photocopy, circa 2006, of three sheets of manuscript music in the hand of Robert Louis Stevenson, comprising the airs "Farewell to Tantira", and "Aberlady Links", and some German leider, circa 1867-1894.
File
Identifier: Acc.12674
Dates:
1867-1894.
Photocopy of a postcard of James Scott Skinner to Tom MacDonald.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7887
Scope and Contents
Containing a score by Scott Skinner of the tune, "The Weeping Birches of Kilmorack".
Dates:
1909.
Photocopy of the autograph score of ‘Five preludes for piano from a Brittany sketch book', an apparently unpublished work, undated, by Isobel V S Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: MS.22146
Dates:
?Mid 20th century.
Photocopy of "Thou O God art Praised in Sion" (an exercise for the degree of Mus Bac, Oxon, 1877) by Thomas H Collinson, father of Francis Collinson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11742
Dates:
1877.