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:
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.
Volume of airs, chiefly of ballads, also of marches, etc., dedicated to Sir Walter Scott by Andrew Blaikie., 1824.
File
Identifier: MS.1578
Wordless setting, undated, of the anonymous Scottish ballad 'Edward! Edward!'., 1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.22009
Scope and Contents
This is a different setting to that at MS.22010, folio 1.
It is not clear whether it is a partly scored setting for orchestra, or fully scored for strings, cornets and organ. A leaf is cut out after folio 17, damaging the endpaper. Folios 15 and 16, which are slightly smaller than the rest, are later additions.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
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.