Psalms. Songs (document genre)
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Agnes Hume`s music book.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.17
Scope and Contents
The music book contans 15 pieces possibly for guitar, four common psalm tunes, and eight songs, with the later addition of some Scots tunes for violin. The guitar tunes (folios 1-4 verso) are written on a six line stave. The songs (folios 14 verso-17 verso, 8-9 - the correct arrangement) include:‘There is a lady sweet and kind’ by Thomas Ford (folio 15 verso);‘Gather your Rosebuds’, a setting of Robert Herrick`s poem (folio 16);`I...
Dates:
Circa 1704.
Choral music of G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21920-21923
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.
Copies, 17th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall`s renderings in Latin verse of the Psalms and the Song of Solomon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.12
Scope and Contents
The original was probably written after 1616, since it includes a dedicatory poem to Charles I as Prince of Wales.
Dates:
?After 1616.
Leyden Song Book: a collection of songs, instrumental pieces, and psalms, possibly compiled by Williane Stirling, with later additions.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are:1. 54 songs and instrumental pieces (folios 1-25 verso), of which the following have been identified:`My love bound me`, Robert Jones, ‘Second Book of Songs’, 1601 (folio 4 verso);`Do not O do not praise`, Robert Jones, ‘Ultimum Vale’, 1608 (folio 5);`There is none, O none but you`, Thomas Campion, ‘Second Book of Airs’, 1610 (folio 6);`Vaine men whose follies`, Thomas Campion, ‘Second Book of Airs’,...
Dates:
Circa 1639.
Manuscript known as ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, containing medical notes in Gaelic and prayers and Psalm 118 in Latin.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.4
Scope and Contents
This remarkably small, chubby manuscript, ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, is described by David McRoberts in ‘Two Hebridean liturgical items’, page 171, with a plate showing its external appearance. ‘Cleric and physician’, he concludes, ‘he . . . had in his vade-mecum, which he would fasten to his belt, all the literature he required (his substitute for the Divine Office and his medical notes) when he set out to attend to the souls and bodies of his parishioners’. The ‘Divine Office’ is Psalm...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Miscellany of manuscript and printed fragments recovered from the binding of a composite volume of German pamphlets., 15th century-early 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.26
Scope and Contents
The German pamphlets (pressmark DC.5) were published between 1586 and 1603, beginning with ‘Von der Erbsünde’ by Egidius Hunnius, the Elder (Franckfurt am Mayn, 1594).(i) An almost complete conjugate pair of consecutive vellum leaves (being the innermost bifolium of a gathering) lacking the lower margins and the last few lines, from a commentary on the Decretals. The portion contained in this fragment relates to Book I, Title 43, chapter 12 to Book II, Title 1, chapter 4. The...
Dates:
15th century-early 17th century.
Music notebook.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.11
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains:
notes on musical theory (folios 1-12 verso, 32 verso-33);
the common psalms tunes as in the psalter of 1625 with the addition of ‘Newtoun’, all in four parts (folios 13-25);
the proper tunes to psalms 119, 136 and 25, church part only (folios 27v.-29v.); and,
the song `Gather your rosebuds`, attributed to William Lawes (folios 30-31).
Dates:
Circa 1700.
Notebook containing works on musical theory, psalm tunes, miscellaneous recipes and a poem.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.16
Scope and Contents
The arrangement of the notebook is as follows:musical theory (folios 1-19, 35-66);tenor and bass parts only to 13 common psalm tunes, all in the psalter of 1635 (folios 20-32);the proper tune for psalm 119, tune only (folio 33);melody and figured bass parts to 10 psalm tunes, possibly from a collection circa 1750 (folios 66 verso-71);miscellaneous recipes for colours, medicines, etc. (folios 76-115); and,a poem...
Dates:
Circa 1754.