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Dances. Musical compositions.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Musical compositions for regulating the movements of a dance, or composed in a dance rhythm.

Found in 144 Collections and/or Records:

Music of John Davidson chiefly for string quartet., [?1871-?1926.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22022-22046
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: John Davidson, a member of the family of J & A Davidson, coal merchants and shipping agents, Aberdeen, was an amateur musician and composer. His preferred medium appears to have been the string quartet, but he composed and arranged pieces also for other combinations of instruments, chiefly strings. A number of pieces appear in more than one form. The collection contains both full scores and parts.The earliest and latest dates discernible are 1871 and 1926, but almost...
Dates: [?1871-?1926.]

Music of John Davidson for piano., [?1871-?1926.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22058-22069
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: John Davidson, a member of the family of J & A Davidson, coal merchants and shipping agents, Aberdeen, was an amateur musician and composer. His preferred medium appears to have been the string quartet, but he composed and arranged pieces also for other combinations of instruments, chiefly strings. A number of pieces appear in more than one form. The collection contains both full scores and parts.The earliest and latest dates discernible are 1871 and 1926, but almost...
Dates: [?1871-?1926.]

Nineteenth-century copies of songs, dances, and other tunes, both traditional and contemporary, made by members, relatives, and friends of the family of Brown, residing at Linkwood, Elgin.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3370-3379
Scope and Contents

The music is chiefly arranged for pianoforte, except MS.3378, which is for violin.

Dates: Late 18th century-1875.

Notebook, undated, of Evelyn Stewart-Murray containing Gaelic grammatical notes, exercises and music., Late 19th century-early 20th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14889
Scope and Contents The grammatical notes and exercises are on folios 1-106, and the music is on folios 107-123.The contents are as follows.(i) Small envelope bearing Evelyn Stewart Murray's address (folio i);(ii) Tale headed ‘An t-seana bhantrach’ (folio 1), and an English translation entitled ‘The poor widow’ (folio 2);(iii) Moral tale headed “Tha irioslachd agus bochdainn a' trearachadh gu neamh” (folio 3) and an English translation, “Humility and poverty lead...
Dates: Late 19th century-early 20th century.

Orchestral music of Ian Whyte., Mid 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22082-22084
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Apart from the film music, which is datable to 1947-1948 from the accompanying correspondence and papers (MSS.22085-22086), almost all the music is undated; but from the ink used, some of it may be dated to about the same period.

Except where otherwise stated the music is written as for keyboard.

Dates: Mid 20th century.

Orchestral, vocal and other music scores of Ian Whyte., 1947-1951, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22082-22093
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Apart from the film music, which is datable to 1947-1948 from the accompanying correspondence and papers (MSS.22085-22086), almost all the music is undated; but from the ink used, some of it may be dated to about the same period.

Except where otherwise stated the music is written as for keyboard.

Dates: 1947-1951, undated.

Photocopies of a collection of music books.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21777-21783
Scope and Contents

Most of the music books are of unknown ownership but all may be of northern Scottish provenance. They are all undated but appear to belong to the first half of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1st half of 19th century.

Photocopy of an unidentified music book containing dance tunes., 1st half of 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21780
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Most of the music books are of unknown ownership but all may be of northern Scottish provenance. They are all undated but appear to belong to the first half of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1st half of 19th century.

Photocopy of an unidentified music book containing dance tunes., 1st half of 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21783
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Most of the music books are of unknown ownership but all may be of northern Scottish provenance. They are all undated but appear to belong to the first half of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1st half of 19th century.

Photocopy of an unidentified music book containing dance tunes in simple treble notation., 1st half of 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21779
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Most of the music books are of unknown ownership but all may be of northern Scottish provenance. They are all undated but appear to belong to the first half of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1st half of 19th century.

Photocopy of an unidentified music book containing dances and marches in simple treble notation., 1st half of 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21777
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Most of the music books are of unknown ownership but all may be of northern Scottish provenance. They are all undated but appear to belong to the first half of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1st half of 19th century.

Photocopy of the manuscript known as the Duke of Perth manuscript, containing 'A collection of countrey dances written for the use of his Grace the Duke of Perth', 1734, followed by 'A collection of the best Highland reels', undated, compiled by David Young., 1734, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21715
Scope and Contents David Young, writing master in Edinburgh, and subsequently master of the grammar school in Haddington, is known to have made two other later compilations of Scottish tunes: the Young manuscript, [circa 1740], in the Bodleian Library (MS.Don.d.54), and the MacFarlane manuscripts, 1743, in the National Library of Scotland (MSS.2084-2085).The volume is remarkable for the quantity of material it contains (48 country dances, and 45 reels), for the descriptions of how the country...
Dates: 1734, undated.

Piccolo parts of Scottish dance tunes., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21830
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: Early 20th century-mid 20th century.

Scottish and other dance music of Ian Whyte., Mid 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.22090
Scope and Contents

The contents include: An eightsome reel arranged for strings, in full score (folio 1) and other reels; Strathspeys copied from various sources (folio 18); Jigs (folio 22); Minuet (folio 24); Pavane (folio 25), fugue (folio 28), nocturnes and other pieces (folio 32), and various unidentified sketches (folio 59).

Dates: Mid 20th century.

Scottish music, songs and dances.

 File
Identifier: MS.6298
Dates: [1827, or after]-1916.

Second treble part book of pieces of music, chiefly dances, for viols., 3rd quarter of 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9456
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The pieces are in three groups:

Sixteen unnamed pieces (folios 1-6 in treble parts, 1-5 verso in bass);

Pieces numbered to 25 (actually 23), composers named being Christopher Simpson and John Jenkins (folios 6 verso-19, 6 verso-18, 6-18);

Thirty-five pieces, possibly of French origin, complete only in the bass part (1-3 missing in first treble, and 1-11 in second treble), (folios 37 verso-47, 32 verso-39 verso, 33 verso-43 verso).

Dates: 3rd quarter of 17th century.