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:
Papers of Dr Robert Anderson, 1799-1808, undated, including copies of ballads and other poems, printed and in manuscript, and a copy of a letter, 1808, of the Archbishop of Canterbury., 1799-1808, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1001, folios 61-82
Dates:
1799-1808, undated.
Papers of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale concerning public affairs., 1702-1711, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14498
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memorial, [1703], for Dr Richard Waddell, Archdeacon of St. Andrews (folio 1);(ii) Report, 1704, of the Commissioners for Examining the Public Accounts (folio 5);(iii) ‘Ane abreviat of the customes from November 1702 to November 1704' (folio 17);(iv) Representation, 13 June 1704, of the Duke of Queensberry and the Earl of Cromarty to the Queen on behalf of Sir Andrew Forrester (folio 19);(v) Copy of...
Dates:
1702-1711, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Papers of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale concerning public affairs.
Papers of the Rymour Club, Edinburgh, which existed from 1903 to 1947, its object being the collection of Scottish ballads, popular rhymes, proverbs, and the like.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3760-3770
Dates:
1903-1947.
Part of a ballad on the battle of Flodden., ?17th century-early 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(v), folios 70-88
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.
Dates:
?17th century-early 18th century.
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1745
Scope and Contents
Among several citations from bardic verse are one from Tadhg Dali Ó Huiginn (died circa 1591), and one from a poem by Eoghan Mac an Bhaird (died 1609) on the death of Ruaidhri Ó Domhnaill, Earl of Tirconnel, which took place in Rome in 1608.
Dates:
17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts: part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, a chronicle of the Kings of Scotland, and answers of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, to certain interrogatories put to him concerning his negotiations with Spain for the marriage of Charles I.
Photostats of parts of 'Adversaria', a commonplace-book of Sir Walter Scott., 1796.
File
Identifier: MS.2232
Scope and Contents
The following sections of the book are reproduced:(i) Poem on Cater Thun, beginning, 'Cold the wild blast that chills thy brow', 5 May 1796 (folio 1);(ii) 'To a Lady', lines beginning, 'For thee from Time's slow mouldering hold' (folio 3);(iii) Lines beginning, 'Farewell my dear Jamie, ah take my farewell', with the refrain, 'Lochaber no more' (folio 4);(iv) 'Elegy on Shenstone', beginning, 'Listless laid beneath a willow' (folio 5);...
Dates:
1796.
Poems, ballads, epigrams, etc., some in Scots, with the title-page: 'Trifles light as Air. By Johnnie Grotts. Nemo onmibus horis sapit. 1806'., 1806.
File
Identifier: MS.2787
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Dates:
1806.
Setting of a version of the ballad, ‘The twa sisters’, by Arthur Somervell.
Item
Identifier: MS.3354
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Slips bearing index verborum to Ossianic ballads from the Book of the Dean of Lismore in the hand of Donald C MacPherson.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.8
Dates:
19th century.
Song book in simple treble notation containing songs and ballads, including several Scottish ones, and operatic arias, sung in London (many of them by John Braham) and Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: MS.21758
Scope and Contents
Most songs appear to have been carefully copied from printed sources, the general appearance of the words and music resembling printed or engraved pieces, and the publishers' names being equally carefully transcribed.The owner is unidentified, but may have been a resident of Edinburgh (folios 4, 8, 29). The only date in the book appears to be 1834 at folio 82, but folio i is watermarked 1828, and several of the pieces appear to have been composed about these years.A...
Dates:
1834, undated.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
Item
Identifier: MS.6299
Scope and Contents
There is an index on folio 1; the songs begin on folio 5.The Scottish songs appear to come mainly from Allan Ramsay's ‘Tea table miscellany’ and David Herd's ‘Ancient and modern Scottish songs’ (1776), though some of the songs may have been picked up by ear, as they include a very debased version of Henry Carey's 'Sally in our alley' (folio 17 verso) and "My heart's in the Highlands" in an apparently unknown version different from that of Burns (folio 81 verso)....
Dates:
18th century.
Songs of David Stephen., Early 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22160-22162
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Dates:
Early 20th century.
'Street songs and ballads' by G Foxton Ferguson containing printed and manuscript keyboard settings in various hands tipped and pasted in with a number of settings written on some of the original leaves, chiefly undated., 1911-1918, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22135
Scope and Contents
The title is taken from folio 1.
The manuscript settings are dated between 1911 (folio 17 verso) and 1918 (folio 20), but most, and all the printed settings, are undated.
The settings at folios i verso and 25 are pasted inside the front and back covers respectively.
Dates:
1911-1918, undated.
Three notebooks of William Findlay.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8310
Scope and Contents
Containing:
ballads collected by William Findlay
lectures, 1861-1862, of the Reverend Robert Buchanan on logic and rhetoric
correspondence, 1952-1958, of William Montgomerie.
Dates:
1861-1958.
Two volumes of ballads compiled by Mrs Brown of Falkland.
File
Identifier: Acc.10611
Dates:
1783-1800.
Typescript 'Lyrics and ballads by Pittendrigh Macgillivray, written during the year 1936', (Edinburgh)., 1936.
File
Identifier: Acc.3501/22
Typescripts and corrected proofs of collections of poetry., 1927-1929.
File
Identifier: MS.27483
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript, with a few manuscript corrections, of Lady Margaret Sackville, ‘Romantic ballads’ (Edinburgh, 1927) (folio 1); (ii) Typescript of Sir Alexander Gray, 'Gossip’ (Edinburgh, 1928) (folio 13); (iii) Two sets of page-proofs of Marion Angus, ‘The singin' lass’ (Edinburgh, 1929) (folio 35); (iv) Page-proofs of Robert Crawford, ‘In quiet fields’ (Edinburgh, 1929) (folio 87).
Dates:
1927-1929.
Typescripts of a collection of ballads of Sir Alexander Gray, titled 'Posthumous ballads', possibly intended for a publication similar to 'Four-and forty'., [Circa 1960.]
File
Identifier: MS.26011
Scope and Contents
Some of the ballads are revised versions of those in MS.26010.
Dates:
[Circa 1960.]
Typescripts of Sir Alexander Gray, with some annotations, of a collection of Danish ballads., 1955-1958, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26010
Scope and Contents
A few proofs and printed versions are included.
Dates:
1955-1958, undated.
Vocal score of ‘Lochinvar’ by G W Crawford, for voice and piano accompaniment., [?1892-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21921
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.
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Music for voices by G W Crawford.
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Choral music of G W Crawford.
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Arrangements of "A Scottish Cantata or Choral-Ballad ‘Lochinvar’" by G W Crawford, being settings of the poem by Sir Walter Scott.
Vocal score of the setting by Hamish MacCunn of “The Cameronian's dream”, opus 10, a ballad for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra, by James Hyslop., [?1890.]
File
Identifier: MS.21979
Scope and Contents
Tipped in at the front (folios i-ii) are press cuttings from the 'Scotsman' and the 'Edinburgh Evening News' of 28 January 1890 describing the work and reporting the concert in which it received its premiere.
Dates:
[?1890.]
Volume entitled 'Scotch Ballads. Materials for Border Minstrelsy', chiefly containing ballads sent to Sir Walter Scott when he was collecting material for his ‘Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border’, but with, in addition, many other poems and songs, ancient and modern, English and Gaelic., 1800-[1832].
File
Identifier: MS.877
Scope and Contents
Many of the ballads are accompanied by letters or notes regarding the source and other matters, ranging chiefly from 1800 to 1815. Among those who send ballads or information are James Hogg, William Laidlaw and his family, James Skene, Joseph Ritson, John Leyden, and David Herd. A large number of ballads appear to have been collected between 1813 and 1815 by Thomas Wilkie, Bowden. The letter-writers include the Reverend George Paxton, 1804 (folio 171A), and Dr Mackintosh Mackay, 1831 (folio...
Dates:
1800-[1832].
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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Materials for works written or edited by Sir Walter Scott.