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 82 Collections and/or Records:
Exercise-books of Willa Muir containing notes on ballads and ideas for chapters., 1960, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19675-19684
Scope and Contents
Most of the notes are from printed sources and all the volumes contain miscellaneous jottings.
Dates:
1960, undated.
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.
File
Identifier: MS.22154
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1920.
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.
File
Identifier: MS.22136
Letters to William Edmonstoune Aytoun., 1844-1864, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.4896
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1844-1864, undated.
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.
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.
File
Identifier: MS.22161
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
Early 20th century.
‘Lochinvar’ by G W Crawford, a setting for chorus and orchestra., [?1892-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21920
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.
Manuscript, lettered 'M.S.S. ST. ALBANS 1768' on the spine., 1768.
Item
Identifier: MS.2805
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains simple problems in arithmetic (folio 1), and songs, ballads, election verses, etc., mostly associated with St Albans (folio 108).
Dates:
1768.
Manuscripts and typescripts of Sir Alexander Gray's translation of and introduction to ‘The Marsk Stig cycle’, with a letter of Gray explaining the different stages in the work., 1955.
File
Identifier: MS.26009
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sir Alexander Gray translated a number of Danish and German ballads into Scots verse.
Dates:
1955.
Manuscripts of various poems by James Logie Robertson., 1875.
File
Identifier: MS.4865
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Manuscript, 1875, of "Lord William's wooing. A Scottish ballad" by James Logie Robertson (folio 1);
(ii) Manuscripts, ?1875, of two apparently unpublished poems, 'Our country quarters' and 'Gloria Mundi', by Robertson (folio 4).
Dates:
1875.
Material relating to ‘The poems and ballads of Schiller’, translated by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton., 1844, 1851.
File
Identifier: MS.4824
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript, 1851, of the preface to 'The poems and ballads of Schiller', second edition (folio 1);(ii) Dismembered copy of pages 1-232 of volume ii of the first edition, heavily corrected for the second (folio 16);(iii) Manuscripts of 'The cranes of lbycus' and a portion of 'The victory feast', corresponding to pages 127-139 of volume i of the first edition (folio 132);(iv) Manuscripts of 'Farewell to the reader'...
Dates:
1844, 1851.
Materials for works written or edited by Sir Walter Scott., 1762-[1832].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.877-882
Dates:
1762-[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.
Microfilm of a collection of ballads and songs made for ‘Popular ballads and songs’ by Robert Jamieson., [1806, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15557 [Mf.MSS.52]
Dates:
[1806, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilms of a copy made by Allan Ramsay the elder from the Bannatyne manuscript of 'Satyre of the thrie estaitis' by Sir David Lindsay; and of a collection of ballads and songs made for ‘Popular ballads and songs’ by Robert Jamieson.
Microfilm of four ledgers of Alasdair Gray., 1945-2008.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2062
Microfilm of original manuscript of "The Ship o' the Fiend", a ballad for Orchestra, Opus 5, composed by Hamish MacCunn., [1888, or before.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1292
Microfilm of original manuscript of "The Ship o' the Fiend", a ballad for Orchestra, Opus 5, composed by Hamish MacCunn., [1888, or before.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1345
Dates:
[1888, or before.]
Microfilm of 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.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1293
Microfilm of 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.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1343
Miscellaneous documents apparently from the library of the Reverend A J Macdonald, Minister of Killearnan., 17th century-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3784
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Gaelic texts of a tale and two songs (folio 1);(ii) Letters, notes, and texts of Gaelic poems from the Lochaber area, sent by the Reverend John Walker Macintyre, Minister of Kilmonivaig, to the Reverend A J Macdonald in 1911 (folio 6);(iii) Copies, made in 1897, of seventeenth-century papers belonging to the Earls of Antrim (folio 29);(iv) A letter and two documents relating to the Macdonalds of Sleat,...
Dates:
17th century-early 20th century.
Miscellaneous items of and concerning the Ker family including poetry, drawings and school exercise books., 1653-1826, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5459
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Two political ballads, and complimentary verses to Sir Andrew Ker, 1676, and to Lord Jedburgh, undated (folio 1);(ii) Minutes of Bedrule kirk session, 1653-1654, recording attempts to choose a new minister (folio 6);(iii) Five school exercise-books, circa 1820-1821; two (both signed St Clair) contain a Latin poem on William Tell and notes on Greek history respectively, and the three others contain notes on Euclid (folio...
Dates:
1653-1826, undated.
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.
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.