Ballads.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Songs with rhyming verse and a narrative; also, slow, romantic songs (AAT). For all ballads of the kind collected by Child. Include Jacobite ballads, which will also be indexed under 'Jacobites'. The individual ballads of a group which is indexed as a group should either be mentioned individually in the catalogue description or be listed in the volumes (NLS).
Found in 126 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous manuscripts from Pitfirrane House, Fife., 1558-1897.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6503-6511
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers derive from four main sources: material relating to the Halketts of Pitfirrane, to the Wedderburns of Gosford, to Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats, and to John McFarlane, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1709). The last male heir in the direct line of the Halkett family, Sir James (succeeded 1697), died in 1705, ending the baronetcy created in 1671. On his death his eldest sister, Janet, succeeded to Pitfirrane. She had married Sir Peter Wedderburn, 1st Baronet of Gosford, who now...
Dates:
1558-1897.
Miscellaneous material concerning poetry, genealogy, and other matters., 1558-1885.
File
Identifier: MS.6503
Scope and Contents
One of the most important sections is that on poetry (folios 1-18). Included here (folio 1) is an anonymous translation into English made in ?1710 of George Buchanan's ‘Francisci Valesii et Mariae Stuartae regum Franciae et Scotiae, epithalamium’. An interesting and anonymous ballad (folio 8) is called 'The Westland Letany', being a satire on the misgovernment of Scotland by Lauderdale, written circa 1673. There is also a copy of 'Hardyknute' (folios 14-16), a ballad attributed to Lady...
Dates:
1558-1885.
Miscellaneous music of W B Moonie., 1915, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22010
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) A setting, different from that in MS.22009, for violin and piano, of the anonymous Scottish ballad 'Edward! Edward!', 1915. (Folio 1).(ii) A setting for voice and piano of Herrick's 'Glide, gentle stream'. (Folio 8).(iii) A setting of George Scott Moncrieff's 'Song of Roland'. (Folio 12).(iv) Pieces numbered 2-5 of an unidentified work, or arrangement, for piano. (Folio 16).(v) A setting of 'Woodland...
Dates:
1915, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
Miscellaneous papers of Sir Alexander Gray., 1921-1954, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26014
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Notes on the Diderik ballads, and the text of a broadcast on 'Sir Halewyn', 1947, undated (folio l); (ii) An address at a graduation in Edinburgh University, 1954 (folio l2). This was printed in Sir Alexander Gray's ‘A timorous civility’ (Glasgow, 1966), pages 32-40. (iii) Press-cuttings of poems and articles by Gray, with some reviews of his work, 1921-1940, undated (folio 25).
Dates:
1921-1954, undated.
Modern settings of traditional street cries, chiefly of London, and of some ballads.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22135-22136
Dates:
1911-1918, undated.
Music for voices by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21920-21924
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
Notebook of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford: volume XXIII., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.8.1
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Notebook of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford: volume XXIV., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.8.2
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Notebook of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford: volume XXVI., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.8.4
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Notebook of Edwin Muir., 1956-1957.
Item
Identifier: MS.19965
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains a draft for the broadcast 'Revisiting Orkney' (folio 1); 'The ballads' published in ‘The New Statesman’, 53 (1957), pages 174-175 (folio 39 verso); reviews of work by Christopher Logue, C A Trypanis and Anna Kavan (folios 55, 96 verso); a translation from Kafka (folio 70 verso); and articles on 'Story and novel' (folio 30), Christopher Logue (folio 53), contemporary poetry (folio 61), ballads (folios 67, 90 verso) and 'The thirties' (folio 87 verso).
Dates:
1956-1957.
Notebook of Willa Muir containing verses and notes on ballads and witchcraft., Mid 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.19702
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Notebook of William Edmondstoune Aytoun containing three prose translations from German and Latin, part of a political dialogue, various notes and fragments, and forty-four poems., [Circa 1836.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4917
Scope and Contents
Of the poems, the following were published in “Blackwood's Magazine”: a translation of 'The twenty-second book of the Iliad', May 1839 (folio 14); four poems published as 'Ballads from the Romaic', May 1840 (folios 29 verso, 30, 122, 122 verso); 'The burial march of Dundee', April 1843 (folio 110); 'Who'll buy my Cupids', July 1844 (folio 56); a poem published as 'Magus Muir', November 1847 (folio 127); two versions of 'The widow of Glencoe', December 1847 (folios 69, 107); 'Edinburgh after...
Dates:
[Circa 1836.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor.
Notebooks of the Reverend William Findlay, containing copies of ballads and extracts from an Ayrshire kirk session register.
Series
Identifier: Dep.211
Dates:
1615-1643.
Notes and drafts of articles, and other papers of Edwin Muir., 1934-1956, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19662
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Notes for lectures on poetry and the corrected typescript of a lecture, 'Poetry and Criticism', undated. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Notes on ballads, undated. (Folio 39.)
(iii) Book reviews, 1934, 1950. (Folio 43.)
(iv) Corrected typescripts of 'Revisiting Orkney', a broadcast given in 1956. (Folio 45.)
(v) Corrected typescript of chapters 1-3 of ‘The mighland Mystery', an unfinished detective novel. It is written on the back of the typescript of part of Willa and Edwin...
Dates:
1934-1956, undated.
'Notes for revision of Posthumous Ballads' by Sir Alexander Gray., 1959.
Item
Identifier: MS.26013
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sir Alexander Gray translated a number of Danish and German ballads into Scots verse.
Dates:
1959.
Notes for sermons, a copy of a spurious ballad, and a letter of the North British Railway to the Incorporation of Tailors of Canongate., 1782, 1846.
File
Identifier: MS.2211
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Notes for sermons, probably preached by the Reverend Robert Walker at Cramond, 1782. (Folio 1.)(ii) A copy of the spurious ballad of "Jock o' Milk", endorsed by David Herd, 'Fragment of an Old Scots Ballad, about 1342'. Perhaps made in 1802; see ‘Letters of Sir Walter Scott’, Centenary Edition (Edinburgh, 1932), volume i, pages 140-141, 142. This is perhaps the ballad mentioned in William Smellie, ‘Account of the Institution and...
Dates:
1782, 1846.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Notes, undated, of Sir Alexander Gray on ballads, chiefly from 'Danmarks gamle Folkeviser' by S H Grundtvig., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.26012
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sir Alexander Gray translated a number of Danish and German ballads into Scots verse.
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
'Old airs, collected and written down by George Riddell. Begun in 1903’., 1903.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3042-3043
Scope and Contents
108 airs, with many of which the words of one verse are given. To some, George Riddell has added a note stating where he obtained the melody.
Dates:
1903.
'Old airs, collected and written down by George Riddell. Begun in 1903, book I', containing airs 1-84., 1903.
File
Identifier: MS.3042
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
108 airs, with many of which the words of one verse are given. To some, George Riddell has added a note stating where he obtained the melody.
Dates:
1903.
'Old airs, collected and written down by George Riddell. Begun in 1903, book II', containing airs 85-108., 1903.
File
Identifier: MS.3043
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
108 airs, with many of which the words of one verse are given. To some, George Riddell has added a note stating where he obtained the melody.
Dates:
1903.
Original manuscript in Sir Walter Scott's autograph of 'The Eve of Saint John. A Border Ballad'.
Item
Identifier: MS.818
Dates:
1799.
Original manuscript of "The Ship o' the Fiend", a ballad for Orchestra, Opus 5, composed by Hamish MacCunn.
File
Identifier: MS.3365
Scope and Contents
The ballad is preceded by a version, in Hamish MacCunn's hand, of the verse ballad that inspired the music, i.e., 'The Daemon Lover', number 243 of ‘The English and Scottish popular ballads’. A pencilled note records two performances in 1888.
Dates:
[1888, or before.]
Papers collected by Sir Walter Scott dealing with Scottish history and antiquities, chiefly copied from official records and other sources, with some facsimiles., 17th century-early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.901
Scope and Contents
The subjects include the Scottish Regalia (folio 1), the Archers of the Guard (folio 21), the use of Lord Drummond’s executioner by the Town Council of Perth in 1706 (folio 140), the Porteous Riots (folio 143), the Lee Penny (see the ‘Talisman’) (folio 159), Highland traditions, supplied by Dr Mackintosh Mackay (folio 167), and Galloway traditions, chiefly Covenanting, with two ballads (folio 179). The excerpts from records regarding festivities, wapenschawing, etc., (folios 19, 35, 45, 50)...
Dates:
17th century-early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Material concerning antiquarian matters chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Papers collected by the Rymour Club, chiefly containing material not printed in the ‘Miscellanea’., ?19th century-?early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3768
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Two sets of corrections to T G Stevenson's 'Sempill ballates’, with notes (folio 1);(ii) Popular rhymes (folio 17), with a girls' singing-game (folio 28) and a skipping-rope rhyme (folio 29);(iii) Children's rhymes and a game (folio 30);(iv) Proverbs and sayings (folio 47);(v) Stories (folio 57);(vi) Miscellaneous verse and prose (folio 64), including copies of five poems of Henry Scott...
Dates:
?19th century-?early 20th century.