Scope and Contents Notebook in various hands containing the following.“Dh’fhalbh sinn leis an sgioba laghach” (folio 2 recto); ‘Mo nighean donn ho gu’ (folios 3 recto, 32 recto); ‘Falt trom trom dualach’ (folio 3 recto); ‘Heman dubh’ (folio 4 recto); psalm to tune ‘Montrose’ (folio 8 recto); “Gillean an fhéilidh” (folio 9 verso); “Suidhidh mi air cùl a’ chreagain” (folios 11 verso, 14 verso); ‘Dol a bhuain fhaochag’ (folio 13 verso); ‘An teid thu bhuain mhaoraich?’ (folio 14 recto); “O théid mi...

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The notebook contains: ‘Aillte’ (page 3); “Éisdibh beag ma’s àill libh laoidh” (page 4); ‘Latha dhuinn air bheagan sluaigh’ (page 10); ‘Osnadh caraid air cluain Fraoich’ (page 12); “Fhir a’ bhàta” (page 14).

Scope and Contents Most of the songs are revised copies of songs noted in MSS.14910-14913. They include ‘Na mucan beaga’ (folio 2 recto); ‘Brochan lom’ (folio 2 verso); ‘A chalumain, a ghille ghrinn’ (folio 3 recto); ‘An fheannag’ (folio 3 verso); ‘An laugh beag’ (folio 3 verso); “Mo thasdan bòidheach” (folios 5 recto, 30 recto); ‘Uisdean Friseal’ (folio 5 verso); ‘Mo bhalachan’ (folios 7 recto, 31 recto); “Nighean an Fhìdhleir” (folio 9 recto); “Clach mhìn mheallain” (folio 10 recto, 35 recto); “Tobar, tobar,...

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The notebook contains the following. “Òran na gillean” (folio 1 verso); “Horo nach robh mi air tìr” (folio 2 verso); “O’n chuir mo leannan cùl-thaobh rium” (folio 3 verso), etc.

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The contents are as follows.

(i) Tunes noted at Oban mod, 1953 (page 3);

(ii) “Gura muladach sgìth mi”, 6 quatrains (page 10);

(iii) Tune of Dugald Buchanan’s ‘An Claigeann’ (page 13);

(iv) Richard Strauss’s ‘Salome’ (page 14).

Scope and Contents The notebook contains the following. “B’e sud e ‘n cùl” (folio 1 recto); “A fhleasgaich ùir” (folio 4 verso); ‘Ruidhleadh na coilich dhubha’ (folio 5 verso); “Bodach beag an t-sìthein” (folio 6 verso); “Agus ho Mhàiri!” (folio 7 verso); ‘Cadal cha dean mi’ (folio 8 verso); “Thig am bàta” (folio 9 verso); “An cù bàn” (folio 10 verso); “A nighean bhuidh’ bhàn” (folio 11 verso); “Mo chaileag mhìn-gheal mheall-shùileach” (folio 13 recto); “‘Nuair bhios mi leam fhìn” (folio 13 verso); “Lady...

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The notebook contains the following. “Bhi ga chuimhneachadh ‘s ga ionndrainn” (folio 1 verso); “‘S ann a hiù o” (folio 4 verso); ‘Gillean no ruin’ (folios 5 verso, 12 verso, 21 verso); “Agus ho Mhórag” (folio 6 verso); ‘Tha gruaim air mo leannan leam’ (folio 8 verso); “Horo hiùro bho ho” (folio 9 verso); “Hé im bo, thog i o” (folio 13 verso); ‘Ailein Duinn’ (folio 15 verso); “Gur mis’ a chaidh thairis” (folio 18 verso); ‘A mhic Iain, mhic Sheumais’ (folio 19 verso), etc.

Scope and Contents The notebook contains the following. ‘Na h-eireagan’ (folios 2 recto, 8 verso); ‘Null air na h-aonachan’ (folio 2 verso); “Bainn’ a’ chruidh aig Mòraig” (folio 3 verso); ‘An gioball bodaich’ (folio 4 verso); “Bodachan a’ ghàraidh” (folio 6 verso); “Tobar, tobar sìolaidh” (folio 9 verso); ‘Mo bhalachan’ (folio 10 verso); ‘Clach mhìn mheallain’ (folio 11 verso); ‘Crodh-laoigh nam bodach’ (folio 12 verso); ‘Chaidh mo lothag air chall’ (folios 13 verso, 25 verso); ‘Mo chuachag laghach thu’...

Scope and Contents The notebook contains the following. “Crò Chinn-tàile” (folio 1 verso); “O rìgh nan dùl” (folio 2 verso); ‘Null rathad Shasuinn’ (folios 3 verso, 21 recto); ‘Lite lom, tana lom’ (folio 4 verso), “Uisdean Friseal” (folio 5 verso); ‘Thig an t-eathar’ (folio 6 verso); ‘Bha thu cho grin’ (folio 7 verso); ‘Fhir a chin duibh and other waulking songs’ (folio 8 verso); “Innis dhomhsa cà ‘l i caidil” (folio 9 verso); ‘Si ai ai aidal ari’ (folio 14 verso); “Na h-eireagan” (folio 15 verso); “Am...

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The notebook contains the following: ‘Fal i fal i failinn oro’ (folio 1 verso); “Cuachag an fhàsaich” (folio 2 verso); ‘Bheir mi oro bhan o’ (folio 3 verso).

Scope and Contents From the Series: Rose Ethel Bassin was born in Edinburgh of Ukrainian extraction, and studied music under Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and others. She taught in schools in England (1907-1911, 1919-1920), Edinburgh (1915), Newton Stewart (1916-1919), Stornoway (1920-1924) and Skye (1924-1927). During 1927-1934 she lectured in the University of British Columbia. After some time in London she spent the war years teaching in Harris, the Uist and Barra. She moved to Dingwall Academy in 1945, finally becoming Music...

Scope and Contents A small notebook entitled at the front in red ink: "Gaelic songs, collected by A.M.C. Tolmie". The title was subsequently expanded to read "English and Gaelic songs ... Campbeltown Argyllshire". Alexander Tolmie became assistant minister and then successor at the first charge at Campbeltown in 1889. A copy of an inscription on a grave in Glassary churchyard, p. 131, is dated 1891.Paginated 1-123 by the scribe, the remaining 10 pages paginated in the Library. An index including...

Scope and Contents Many of the pieces are unattributed and many of the rest are poems taken from published sources set to music by members of the Cathcart family and their friends. Several pieces are private compositions being inscribed 'not to be given away' or 'not to be copied'.The book was given by Lieutenant-Colonel Cathcart to his wife in 1835, according to inscriptions in her hand inside the front cover and on the first flyleaf. It contains pieces copied by her until about 1840 (folio 113)....

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Melody, bass, and words of twenty-four songs (folios 1-15 verso), with one instrumental piece (folio 4 verso). Many of the songs are by the English lutenist song writers of the early 17th century. The Scottish songs in the collection were mostly well-known at the period.(ii) Fifteen common psalm tunes, church tune and bass; all appear in the psalter of 1635. (Folios 16-19 verso.)(iii) Notes on musical theory. (Folios 29...

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...

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)....

Scope and Contents The volume contains songs sung by John Pritt Harley in productions at the Theatre Royal, Dury Lane, and one at the Lyceum Theatre (folio 54).The songs appear to have been written on a number of gatherings of leaves which were subsequently bound together (folio 20 is narrower than the rest), when the tops of the leaves were trimmed, resulting in some loss to the words of the headings. Two leaves from a printed music book are bound in at folios 63-64, and a leaf has been cut out...

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...

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A letter, 1924, of Annie M Higgins is bound in at the front of the volume.

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A letter, 1924, of Annie M Higgins is bound in at the front of the volume.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Copies of Irish songs and airs made, 1922-1926, from an unidentified earlier collection (or collections: cf MSS.21836, folio ii, 21837, folio i).The volumes are different from the work by Lachlan Macbean published under the same title at Stirling in 1921.The copies appear to have been made by Annie M Higgins, possibly for Alexander B Ritchie, a leading medical practitioner in Manchester.The copies are in simple treble notation, not accompanied by words,...

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A commonplace book and a volume of songs, both compiled by the Rev. Alexander McDonald Cornfute Tolmie, minister of Campbeltown and Southend, Kintyre.