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"Centenary Fanfare for the Scottish National Portrait Gallery", for brass quintet, by John Maxwell Geddes.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Contemporary copy of the score of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi.
Copies of musical and literary works of Robert Gordon Milne.
Copies of the piping manuscripts of Angus F Cannon, piper in the 9th Battalion, Royal Scots.
Copy in a contemporary hand of the score of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi.
‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi was first performed in 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.
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.
Copy of an extract of an opera of Simone Mayr, "Ginevra di Scozia".
Copy of "Brian O`Duff`s Lament - Tumilin O`Counichan", an Irish pibroch, transcribed by Alistair Campsie.
Copy of ‘Pièces en trio pour les flutes, violon et dessus de viole’ by Marin Marais.
Copy of "The Strachan Collection" of bagpipe melodies, collected and compiled by D A Will, Winnipeg.
Corrected autograph score of Edward McGuire, "Euphoria - a Sense of Well-Being", for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion.
Includes copy of the final version of the work and tape recording of its first performance, Edinburgh.
Corrected full score of 'Thomas the Rhymer', an opera in four acts by David Johnson.
Corrected music manuscript, "Zehn variationen per piano", of Ferrucio Buscomi.
Correspondence and papers of William Baird Ross.
Correspondence of Ronald Stevenson addressed to Roger Duce, with a composition dedicated to Duce.
Cyclostyled pipe music formerly used by the band of the Glasgow Highland Club.
Draft and completed musical scores, including the symphony "The Creation", by William Wallace.
Includes correspondence and papers on musical controversies.
Drafts and corrected typescripts of "The Seven Deadly Sins: a Mask", libretto by Robert Nye, music by James Douglas.
With manuscript score of the music, and correspondence concerning the work and its performance at the Stirling Festval, 1973, and Edinburgh International Festival, 1974.
Drafts and sketches of the "Organ Sonata" by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Eight volumes of music for bagpipes.
One volume may be in the hand of Angus Mackay.
Facsimile of chorus part of acts I-III of 'Christian the pilgrim', an opera, undated, by James A Moonie, with words adapted by George Peacock from “Pilgrim's progress” by John Bunyan; and a vocal trio from 'A broken coupling', undated, an operetta by Moonie.
'Festival Mass for full orchestra & chorus; a study in instrumentation, composed by William Wallace' (born 1860), in his autograph.
The composer gives a history (folio xiii) of the work, which was composed in 1886-1887 and, in part, scored in 1888 (see dates on various folios). Some parts are incomplete.
Interspersed with the music are unruled leaves, bearing illuminations, manuscript notes of the composer, etc., on folios i-ii, viii, x-xiii, xxv, xxvii verso, xxviii verso, xxxix, xliii, xlvii, li.