Ballads.
Found in 126 Collections and/or Records:
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-books 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.
Four letters, 1935-1936, of or concerning C M Grieve to R D McIntyre, with other papers.
Includes:
Edinburgh University student rectorial broadsheet "Students` Front" (1936)
14 letters and other papers, 1942-1945, of or concerning Douglas Young
copy, undated, of "A Ballad for Douglas Young", attributed to Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Heavily corrected setting for voices and piano, interleaved with a fair copy of the full score of a setting for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra, of the ballad 'Sir Patrick Spans' by David Stephen., 1920.
Apparently composed, or completed, in 1920, according to a deleted note at folio 48. The orchestral accompaniment in short score was published the same year.
An anglicized printed copy of the ballad, with numerous amendments in ink restoring the original Scots words, is at folio 2.
Many substantial corrections to the keyboard version are written on fragments of paper pasted to the leaves, and folio 28 is an addition written on a scrap of paper tipped in.
Lady John Scott collection of music, chiefly Scottish.
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.
Lady Louisa Stuart's ballad, "Ugly Meg, or, The Robber's Wedding" ('Muckle-mouthed Meg'), in Sir Walter Scott's hand.
The ballad is undated, but is written on paper watermarked 1805.
There are some words and phrases in another hand in places where the original writing has been deleted.
With a frontispiece in watercolour and a tailpiece in pencil.
Leaves containing two collections of settings made for Beatrice F Spencer, chiefly by A M Goodhart, of traditional street cries chiefly of London, and settings of ballads., 1912, undated.
Letter of Sir Walter Scott to Alexander Pringle of Whytbank, containing a version of the ballad of the Scotts of Whitslade, pasted in a copy of Captain Walter Scot of Satchells, 'A true history of several honourable families of the right honourable name of Scot’ (Edinburgh, 1776), presented to Pringle by Sir Walter Scott.
Sir Walter Scott states that he has a copy of the ballad in a hand of the seventeenth century.
Letters chiefly of Scottish interest.
Letters to Sir Walter Scott, chiefly to the Ballantynes, with several to other persons.
The letters are chiefly unconnected. Among them is the 'Imitation of the beginning of a Morlachian ballad' (Goethe's 'Klaggesand von der edlen Frauen des Asan-Aga), 1807 (folio 5).
Letters to William Edmonstoune Aytoun., 1844-1864, undated.
The dated letters are arranged in chronological order (folio 1), and undated letters alphabetically under the names of the writers (folio 235).
There are also two letters, each enclosing a version of the ballad 'Lady Margaret' (folio 264), and three separate ballads entitled 'There was a squire', 'The heir of Northumberland', and "The shepherd's wife", all undated (folio 271).
Leyden Song Book: a collection of songs, instrumental pieces, and psalms, possibly compiled by Williane Stirling, with later additions.
List of thirty-one Scots songs, both traditional ballads and poems by Burns and other authors, followed by arrangements of twenty-nine of them by David Stephen., Early 20th century.
The arrangements are marked ‘second copies’ and have tonic sol-fa notation added in red.
The compilation was made for a tenor album, which does not appear to have been published, of ‘Folk songs of Scotland’ edited by David Stephen and Robert Burnett.
Literary and family papers of Sir Alexander Gray (1882-1968), Professor of Political Economy at Aberdeen and later at Edinburgh University.
Sir Alexander Gray published several volumes of his own poems and of translations of European ballads, and his literary papers consist of his work in these fields.