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Corrected full score of 'Thomas the Rhymer', an opera in four acts by David Johnson.
File
Identifier: MS.22152
Scope and Contents
The opera is based on the Border ballad collected by Sir Walter Scott (folio 1).Of the many corrections the most substantial are the additional leaves at folios 11, 21, 35, 38 (formerly stapled to folio 39), 45 (formerly stapled to folio 44) 46, 53-54, 57 and 100 (formerly stapled to folio 101). Leaves are cut out after folio 80 and 108.The score is preceded by a typed press release (folio i) and a printed programme (folio iii) of the premiere, which was performed in...
Dates:
1974-1976.
‘Gem selection: Scottish songs’ edited by Alfred W Tomlyn, 7th edition (Edinburgh, undated); signed, with an autograph portrait sketch, Perth, 1928, of himself by Sir Harry Lauder; with other signatures inside the front cover.
Item
Identifier: MS.21833
Dates:
1928.
Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.
File
Identifier: MS.3282
Scope and Contents
The music-book is made up of pages watermarked 1794.
The volume contains ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces from Scotland and various European countries (passim), hymns (folios 22 verso-31), and vocal exercises and scales (folios 22, 32 verso-33 verso, 70-71 verso). Among the more extended pieces are extracts for pianoforte from Méhul's 'Jeune Henri' of 1797 (folio 67 verso), and from an opera 'Paul and Virginia', possibly that produced in London in 1800; and 'Favourite dances at...
Dates:
?1794-1813.
Microfilm of diaries and musical compositions of Dr T H Collinson, Organist and Choirmaster of St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.649-650
Dates:
[?1873]-1928.]
Microfilm of Kilberry book of piobaireachd. Papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus, numbers 148-290.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.951-952
Dates:
[?1892-?1958.]
Music and other papers of John Davidson and James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22076-22077
Dates:
1896, 1917, 1922, undated.
Music book, compiled apparently towards the end of the eighteenth century, containing dances, marches and some songs.
File
Identifier: MS.21752
Scope and Contents
The owner is not known, but was presumably a resident of Edinburgh (folios 30 verso, 31). Eight printed songs and a fragment of a ninth, all datable to the last decade of the eighteenth century, have been tipped in at folios 62-79, which have been cut down to stubs for the purpose. Folios 80-81 also are cut down, but nothing has been attached to them. A march written apparently in the owner's hand is pasted to folio 80. The owner's incomplete pagination has been ignored. The book was...
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22022-22075
Dates:
1871-1926, undated.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers of Thomas H Collinson, organist of St Mary's (Episcopal) Cathedral and conductor of the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union.
File
Identifier: MS.21880
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Unfinished copy of 'Thou O God art praised in Sion' (Psalm 65) by Thomas H Collinson, an exercise for the degree of Bachelor of Music, Oxford, 1877 (folio 1), followed by drafts of several of the sections (folio 68). The unfinished parts of the scoring have been supplied in pencil, apparently by the composer's son Francis M Collinson. Folios 21-24 appear to be from an earlier copy in the composer's autograph.(ii) Setting for choir and...
Dates:
1877-1928, undated.
Printed copy of the song, 'Tranent Muir' by Sir Walter Scott, interleaved with anonymous explanatory notes and annotations, with an endorsement by Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.23056
Scope and Contents
The endorsement by Sir Walter Scott is as follows, 'Tranent Muir & Notes to be taken in page 189'.
Dates:
[1791, or after.]
Printed proof of “Carle, now the King’s come!”, with corrections in Sir Walter Scott’s autograph, followed by a manuscript Latin version of the song [?1822].
Series
Identifier: MSS.1665-1666
Dates:
1822, undated.
Transcripts, 18th century, of journals, 1547-1553, of the House of Lords for the reign of Edward VI; with a collection of songs and airs, 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.31
Dates:
1547-1553, 18th century.