Ballads.
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of "The Ship o' the Fiend" and a setting of James Hyslop’s poem “The Cameronian's dream”, by Hamish MacCunn.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts.
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 17th-18th century, of bardic fragments, containing a strong element of MacMhuirich poetry (Adv.MS.72.2.2);
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany, [circa 1798] (Adv.MS.72.3.2);
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, 17th century, (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs.(MS.1745).
Microfilm of three notebooks, undated, of William Motherwell, the first containing 'The crust of comfort being a short treatise expressly written for the instruction and edification of Old Maids by Jacob Ebenezer Jogtrot B.A. of Brazen Nose College Oxford', the other two miscellaneous poems, copies of ballads, and other notes.
Microfilm of two manuscripts of ballads collected by Mrs Anne Brown, wife of the minister of Falkland.
One ballad was given by Anne Brown to William Tytler in 1783, the other to Alexander Fraser Tytler in 1800; both were used by Sir Walter Scott for ‘The minstrelsy of the Scottish Border’, but only the latter was available to Francis J Child for his ‘The English and Scottish popular ballads’ (see volume 5, page 397).
Microfilm of vocal scores of settings by, and an original manuscript of, Hamish MacCunn.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
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.
Modern settings of traditional street cries, chiefly of London, and of some ballads.
Notebooks of the Reverend William Findlay, containing copies of ballads and extracts from an Ayrshire kirk session register.
Original manuscript in Sir Walter Scott's autograph of 'The Eve of Saint John. A Border Ballad'.
Original manuscript of "The Ship o' the Fiend", a ballad for Orchestra, Opus 5, composed by Hamish MacCunn.
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.
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.
Setting of a version of the ballad, ‘The twa sisters’, by Arthur Somervell.
Slips bearing index verborum to Ossianic ballads from the Book of the Dean of Lismore in the hand of Donald C MacPherson.
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.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
Three notebooks of William Findlay.
Containing:
ballads collected by William Findlay
lectures, 1861-1862, of the Reverend Robert Buchanan on logic and rhetoric
correspondence, 1952-1958, of William Montgomerie.