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Each volume contains a number of additional pieces on loose sheets which have been tipped in, but the latter half of each volume is blank.

Scope and Contents The title is taken from folio ii.The manuscript contains many Scottish and some other dance tunes arranged in simple treble notation, followed by an index (page 181).The tunes , which are taken from ‘Caledonian pocket companion’ by James Oswald ([circa 1745-1760]), ‘[First] collection of strathspey reels’ by Niel Gow (1784), and several other printed sources, are numbered in pencil in another hand as far as page 47, and other markings are added in pencil elsewhere....

Scope and Contents The music-book is made up of pages watermarked 1794. The volume contains ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces from Scotland and various European countries (passim), hymns (folios 22 verso-31), and vocal exercises and scales (folios 22, 32 verso-33 verso, 70-71 verso). Among the more extended pieces are extracts for pianoforte from Méhul's 'Jeune Henri' of 1797 (folio 67 verso), and from an opera 'Paul and Virginia', possibly that produced in London in 1800; and 'Favourite dances at...

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The contents are as follows: Notes, 1826-1827, of Lady John Scott on music, and songs, chiefly Scottish (MS.842);

Airs, 1824, chiefly of ballads, also of marches, etc., dedicated to Sir Walter Scott by Andrew Blaikie (MS.1578);

Copies of songs, dances, and other tunes, arranged for violin, made by members, relatives, and friends of the family of Brown, residing at Linkwood, Elgin, late 18th century (MS.3378).

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The contents are as follows: Manuscripts, [?1826-?1840], of Angus Mackay containing piobaireachd (MSS.3753-3754);

Manuscripts, [?1826-?1840], of Angus Mackay containing marches, strathspeys, reels, jigs, and other dance music for bagpipe (MSS.3755-3756).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Volume containing 418 marches, hornpipes, and jigs, 235 strathspeys and reels, and 14 piobaireachd, 1687 (Acc.8396, number 1);Volume containing a small collection of marches and dances by Duncan Fergusson, 1884 (Acc.8396, number 2);Collection of 164 strathspeys and reels, and one piobaireachd (lament for Cluny Macpherson, ‘composed by Malcolm Macpherson, 1885’), 19th century (Acc.8396, number 3);Collection of about 200 marches...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of seven dance pieces by 'Mr Simpsone' (Christopher Simpson?) (MS.9453);Seventy-seven pieces of music, dances, songs, and Scots airs, for violin, [circa 1675] (MS.9454);First treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of pieces of music, chiefly dances, for viols (MS.9455);Second treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of pieces of music, chiefly dances, for viols...

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The contents are as follows: Volume of Scottish music, [1838], comprising airs, Lowland and Highland, songs, dances, a pibroch, etc. (MS.2086);

Book of dance tunes, [circa 1765], chiefly arranged for the English guitar or the cittern (MS.5449).

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The contents are as follows: Sixty-six pieces for violin, [circa 1680], (two in two parts), chiefly dances, with a further seven pieces in tablature (apparently for a three-stringed instrument) (MS.5777);

'Lessones for ye Violin', a collection of twenty-eight pieces for violin, [circa 1680], including dances, marches, a set of variations, and Scots airs (MS.5778);

Twenty-three pieces of music, chiefly dances, in French lute tablature, mid 17th century (MS.9451).

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The contents are as follows: Music book, [circa 1640], of Lady Jean Campbell (MS.9449), 79 frames;

About 100 pieces of music, mid 17th century, chiefly dances, in French lute tablature (MS.9452), 61 frames.

Scope and Contents The owner is not known, but was presumably a resident of Edinburgh (folios 30 verso, 31). Eight printed songs and a fragment of a ninth, all datable to the last decade of the eighteenth century, have been tipped in at folios 62-79, which have been cut down to stubs for the purpose. Folios 80-81 also are cut down, but nothing has been attached to them. A march written apparently in the owner's hand is pasted to folio 80. The owner's incomplete pagination has been ignored. The book was...

Scope and Contents The signature of J Crichton Donaldson has been written on the pastedowns inside both front and back covers and at folio 55.The music book was begun in 1853 and continued until at least 20 September 1855 and contains a large number of tunes, numbered to 1080 (folio 97 verso), followed by more, unnumbered, tunes. They consist chiefly of dances, together with several military marches, some songs, sets of variations and a few original solos requiring a more developed technique and...

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The music book is gold-stamped 'violin' on the front cover.

Many of the tunes appear to be of late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century provenance. The volume appears to have been compiled in the mid nineteenth century (cf., for example, folios 41, 47).

The leaves of the volume exhibit much handling, but the identity of the compiler is unknown. The volume is thought to have had a possible Perthshire provenance.

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The volume is little more than a fragment. At least one gathering appears to have been torn out before folio 1 and further leaves have been torn out after folios 7 and 9.

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The music book is dated 1816 on folio i. It contains, at the front, dance tunes and other pieces, and at the back, a beginner's musical exercises in pencil, followed by further compositions. The lower part of folio 11 has been cut out, and leaves have been torn out after folio 12 and folio 5 inverted.

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Folios 12, 21 verso, 70-77 contain a few songs in a later hand, or hands.