Ballads.
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
'Ancient folk-melodies, collected and recorded by George Riddell', being a note by Riddell on the character of folk-music, the survival of old airs, and the prospect of a national school of music., ?1st quarter of 20th century.
Accounts of George Riddel's life will be found in MS.3042, inside the front cover.
Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1842-1885, undated.
Arrangements of "A Scottish Cantata or Choral-Ballad ‘Lochinvar’" by G W Crawford, being settings of the poem by Sir Walter Scott., [?1892-?1941.]
Ballads and songs, ancient and modern., [1787]-1831, undated.
This material does not appear to have been used by F J Child. Besides British ballads, it includes a note on Spanish ballads by George Tickner of Boston (folio 7), a letter of William Laidlaw (folio 15), a letter of Robert Jamieson, with translations of Danish ballads (folio 23), historical ballads and songs (folios 50-82), two versions of ‘Galatian’, and correspondence of Sir John Sinclair regarding the Gaelic song ‘Malli bheag Og’, 1819-1820 (folio 93).
'Ballads, etc., from the collection of the late Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe . . . arranged for . . . Lady John Scott'., 2nd half of 19th century
The collection consists of manuscript music composed or collected by Lady John Scott (Alicia Anne Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, died 1900, wife of Lord John Douglas Scott), much of it being in her autograph.
Ballads of Sir Alexander Gray., 1955-[circa 1960], undated.
Sir Alexander Gray translated a number of Danish and German ballads into Scots verse.
Booklet containing Gaelic songs, about half of them Ossianic., 1769
Small unbound octavo booklet, 18 leaves. In the hand of Rev. Donald MacNcol. Signed on the front page, 'Donald McNicol'. Dated 1769 on folio 2 recto. The first page gives a contents list of titles.
Contains 13 Gaelic songs, 7 of which are Ossianic. Among the non-Ossianic songs is 'Cha b' e tùchan a' chnatain' by Robert Campbell, Forsair Choire an t-Sìth.
The contents are listed in Mackechnie, 'Catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts', vol. 1, page 330.
Choral music of David Stephen., [?1899], 1920.
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Choral music of G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
'Collection of Ballads, collected chiefly from tradition, by R. Pitcairn . . . Commenced Edinr., 1817', volume I: 'Romantic Ballads', translations from Scandinavian and other languages, all published, chiefly by Robert Jamieson., 1817-1823.
The verse is accompanied by notes by Robert Pitcairn.
‘Collection of Ballads, collected chiefly from tradition, by R. Pitcairn . . . Commenced Edinr., 1817', volume III: 'Romantic Ballads', British, chiefly taken from recitation., 1817-1823.
The verse is accompanied by notes by Robert Pitcairn.
Collection of songs and ballads, chiefly Scottish, in the handwriting of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe., 1824.
The songs and ballads are chiefly from manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott, Mrs Laing, Peter Buchan, and others unnamed.
Contemporary copies of twenty-five letters to Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk, from Pope, Swift, Arbuthnott, Gay, and the Duchess of Queensberry, with copies of Swift's 'Characters' of the Countess and of Sir Robert Walpole., 1719-1731.
Two leaves are missing between folios 15 and 16; folio 16 contains stanzas 17-24 of a political ballad, beginning 'Is Cartwright then to Ireland gone'.
Copies of French and English poems, anecdotes, etc., chiefly dated 1777-1787, some in the hand of Henrietta, Marchioness of Lothian., 1142, 1163, 1724-1787.
Included are occasional writings by the Marquise de Boufflers, Madame du Deffand and their circle, by C J Fox, Temple Luttrell and others, seven poems by Mrs Anne Hunter, political ballads, and anonymous verse.
Copy of ‘Nimbus’ volume ii, number 3 (Autumn 1954), containing "The Ballad of Baldy Bane', with a letter of William Sydney Graham commenting on the poem., 1954.
William Sydney Graham, who came from Greenock but spent much of his life in Cornwall, published several collections of poems between 1942 and 1977.
Exercise-book of Willa Muir containing notes on ballads and ideas for chapters., 1960, undated.
Most of the notes are from printed sources and all the volumes contain miscellaneous jottings.
Exercise-book of Willa Muir containing notes on ballads and ideas for chapters., 1960, undated.
Most of the notes are from printed sources and all the volumes contain miscellaneous jottings.
Exercise-book of Willa Muir containing notes on ballads and ideas for chapters., 1960, undated.
Most of the notes are from printed sources and all the volumes contain miscellaneous jottings.
Exercise-book of Willa Muir containing notes on ballads and ideas for chapters., 1960, undated.
Most of the notes are from printed sources and all the volumes contain miscellaneous jottings.
Exercise-book of Willa Muir containing notes on ballads and ideas for chapters., 1960, undated.
Most of the notes are from printed sources and all the volumes contain miscellaneous jottings.
Exercise-book of Willa Muir containing notes on ballads and ideas for chapters., 1960, undated.
Most of the notes are from printed sources and all the volumes contain miscellaneous jottings.
Exercise-book of Willa Muir containing notes on ballads and ideas for chapters., 1960, undated.
Most of the notes are from printed sources and all the volumes contain miscellaneous jottings.
Exercise-book of Willa Muir containing notes on ballads and ideas for chapters., 1960, undated.
Most of the notes are from printed sources and all the volumes contain miscellaneous jottings.
Exercise-book of Willa Muir containing notes on ballads and ideas for chapters., 1960, undated.
Most of the notes are from printed sources and all the volumes contain miscellaneous jottings.
Exercise-book of Willa Muir containing notes on ballads and ideas for chapters., 1960, undated.
Most of the notes are from printed sources and all the volumes contain miscellaneous jottings.