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Song book (the last four attributed to Robert Wilcox) of Andrew Hume, Dunbar.
Song texts, mostly photocopies, with some music staff and solfa notation.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
Songs, airs from oratorios, minuets, etc., written out at the end of an imperfect copy of ‘Lessons on the practice of singing, with an addition of the church tunes, in four parts, and a collection of hymns ; canons, airs and catches, for the improvement of beginners', by Cornforth Gilson (Edinburgh, 1759).
On the first end-paper and on the fly-leaves (folios i, ii) there are quotations of poetry about music. The date of the manuscript is probably not much later than the date of publication of the book.
Songs collected and arranged by Duncan M Morison, Stornoway.
‘Songs of Robert Burns’, edited by J C Dick, and ‘Early Scottish melodies’ by John Glen, with additions and corrections in the form of notes, marginal and inserted, in the printed volumes.
Many of the notes are in the autographs of Frank Kidson and Thomas Davidson Cook. They are mainly textual, dealing with sources, language, spelling, etc., but some scores of tunes are given.
'Songs of the Gael', being copies of Irish songs and airs.
Springthyme Records Audio Archive.
Recordings of folk songs and traditional music made between the early and mid 1960s. Many of these are field recordings of folk songs and traditional music made in Ireland, Scotland, England, and some in Canada, by Peter Shepheard.
The Melrosian Annual, 1888
Three songs copied by Bertha Feitis, "Spinn Spinn", by Hugo Jüngst, "Die Mutter an der Wiege", by Carl Loewe, and "Es Muss ein Wunderbares Sein", by Ferenc Liszt.
Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
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.
Twenty songs and choruses of George Frideric Handel, composer.
The works are from the oratorios "Alexander's Feast", 'Samson', 'Deborah', 'Occasional Oratorio', 'Saul', 'Susanna', 'Judas Maccabaeus', and the "Ode for St Cecilia's Day", in vocal score; with two marches, from the 'Occasional Oratorio', and 'Judas Maccabaeus', arranged for keyboard. They are written in a professional hand, and most of them include a note of performance time.
The music begins on folio 7, the preceding folios containing a contents list.
Typescript libretto and manuscript musical sketches for opera of Learmont Drysdale, "Flora Macdonald".
With manuscript arrangements of eight Scots songs.
Verse and music of Thomas Stewart, music-seller, Edinburgh.
Words and music for a song "Lovely Loch Awe" of Thomas A Ewart, Oban.
Words and music of lyrics and comic operas by Archibald F Hyslop.
Many composed for the singer and comedian Harry Gordon, with correspondence.