Melodies.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: That part of musical form which consists of the arrangement of single notes in musical succession to define a piece of music's essential charachter.
Found in 168 Collections and/or Records:
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson., 1687-1959, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21702
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes some content created through a drum duplcation process.
Dates:
1687-1959, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
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Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music, with some notes, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson.
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Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson.
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music, with some notes, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson., 17th century-1963, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21700-21702
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
17th century-1963, undated.
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys and other miscellaneous music, chiefly undated, compiled circa 1950-circa 1970, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson, including a note of the Scottish tunes from ‘Pills to purge melancholy’, 1719-1720, by Thomas D'Urfey., 1719-1956, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21700
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
1719-1956, undated.
Tunes collected by Donald Stuart Macdonald, Pipe Major, 1st Battalion Royal Scots, and written down in 1882.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3110-3111
Dates:
1882.
Tunes copied from "Bremner's Reels, 1759", presumably the ‘Collection of Scots reels’, published by Robert Bremner., 1759.
File
Identifier: MS.3091
Tunes gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key., 1947.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21696-21698
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
1947.
Tunes in 3/4 time gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key., [?1947.]
File
Identifier: MS.21697
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
[?1947.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
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Material gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key.
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Tunes gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key.
Tunes in 4/4 time gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key., [?1947.]
File
Identifier: MS.21696
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
[?1947.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
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Material gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key.
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Tunes gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key.
Tunes in 6/8 time gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key., 1947.
File
Identifier: MS.21698
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
1947.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
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Material gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key.
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Tunes gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key.
Typescript copy of "Bibliography of George Thomson's Folio Collection of Scottish Airs, with supplementary sections for separate accompaniments, sonatas, & other works, compiled by Thomas Davidson Cook"., [Circa 1922.]
File
Identifier: MS.3104
Scope and Contents
Leaves of a carbon copy containing additional details have been inserted after the corresponding leaf of the main typescript. The Bibliography is preceded by two letters, 1922, of Frank Kidson on Thomson (folio i) and "Notes on the bibliography of George Thomson's Scottish Airs" (folio xiii).
Dates:
[Circa 1922.]
Unbound manuscript music., 1743-19th century, undated
File
Identifier: MS.3352 [Ing.305]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Military airs, almost all mentioned in the history of military music (MS.3353) which they were intended to illustrate. They are taken from various sources, such as the Dalhousie and Macfarlane manuscripts and a manuscript music-book of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and include transcripts of two manuscripts of William Byrd's Battle Piece. So far as possible, they have been arranged in the order in which they are mentioned in MS.3353, to the sections...
Dates:
1743-19th century, undated
Various single and small quantities of musical compositions and letters of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MS.22078
Dates:
1870-1924, undated.
Volume of airs, chiefly of ballads, also of marches, etc., dedicated to Sir Walter Scott by Andrew Blaikie., 1824.
File
Identifier: MS.1578
Volume of Scottish music, comprising airs, Lowland and Highland, songs, dances, a pibroch, etc., 1838, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.2086
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1838, undated.
Xerox of a manuscript music book containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane., 1808.
Item
Identifier: MS.14949(a)
Scope and Contents
This music book is the source of much of the Clephanes’ privately printed collection of 1808 (Microfilm MS.266). Almost half is Gaelic. Includes (folio 57) an otherwise unrecorded air for “Eachann Bacach’s Thriall ar bunadh gu Phàro”.
Dates:
1808.
Xerox of a manuscript music book containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane., 1816, 1825.
Item
Identifier: MS.14949(b)
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-69 consist of harp tunes, chiefly Irish – "Carolan, Ó Cathain", etc., and appear to have been copied by Anna Jane in December 1816 (folio 69) from a manuscript of a Mr MacDonald (folios 14, 39, 43, 49). This may have been the Reverend Patrick MacDonald of Kilmore, compiler of ‘A collection of Highland vocal airs’. A tune at folio 52, “An Irish Girls lamentation for the loss of her Lover”, is described as “Taken by Macdonald from Mr. Murphy of Cambelton” – probably William MacMurchy,...
Dates:
1816, 1825.
Xerox of a manuscript music book containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane., 1821-1823.
Item
Identifier: MS.14949(c)
Scope and Contents
A highly miscellaneous collection of Scots, Gaelic and Irish songs, 18th century operatic airs, etc., chiefly arranged for voice and keyboard. Dated at folios 38 (‘Gaelic air picked up at sea Sept. 1823’), 47 (“Una’s song. A.J.D.C. April 25th 1822”) and 116 (‘Ballads still unset Une 16th 1821’). Most of the small number of Gaelic airs are indexed at folio 119.
Dates:
1821-1823.
Xeroxes of three manuscript music books containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane of Torloisk, Mull.
Series
Identifier: MS.14949(a)-(c)
Scope and Contents
The airs in the music books are drawn from a broad range of cultures, including Gaelic.
Dates:
1808-1825.