Dances. Musical compositions.
Found in 144 Collections and/or Records:
Settings of various works of Percy Grainger., 1904-1950.
Seventy-seven pieces of music, dances, songs, and Scots airs, for violin., [Circa 1675.]
Apparently in the same hand as GD45/26/104 in the Scottish Record Office, and as parts of MS.5778. Composers named are [Davis] Mell, [John?] Bannister, Mr Baptist (Lully?), Mr Clayton, and [Robert] Smith. The pieces 'Belle Rese' and 'Borry Royall' (folios 6 verso-7) are also in MS.9455, folios 41, 41 verso, while two others, 'Prelude' by Mell (folios 3 verso-4) and 'Borrie Fountaine Blowe' (folio 12) are also in MS.5779, folios 8 and 11 verso, 12.
Sheets of music, undated, containing copies of songs and dances in various hands., 1st half of 19th century.
The pieces are undated, but folios 9-10 are watermarked 1825, and folios 11 and 17 1835 and 1837 respectively.
Sixty-six pieces for violin (two in two parts), chiefly dances, with a further seven pieces in tablature (apparently for a three-stringed instrument)., [Circa 1680.]
Composers named are J[ohn] Bannister (whose allemande, courante, and contredanse on folios 2 verso-3 verso also appear in MS.9454, folios 10 verso-11 verso), [Matthew] Locke, [Raphael] Courteville, Clayton, [Louis] Grabu, Baptista [?Lully], [Robert] Smith, and [John] Jenkins.
Parts of this manuscript (e.g. folios 2 verso-4) appear to be in the same hand as MS.9454.
Song and music book of Margaret, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Honourable Adolphus Frederick Cathcart, containing songs (arranged for voice and keyboard) and dances.
Songs (some with words) and dances., Early 19th century.
The song, 'Come, Spanish ladies, gaily dance' (folio 21 verso) is in the hand of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
Three works of chamber music by Ronald Center., Mid 20th century.
The contents are as follows: (i) Canon for violin and violoncello, with a pencil sketch of an unidentified work written on the back (folio 1); (ii) Danse rustique for violoncello and pianoforte (folio 2); (iii) Duet for violin and cello, or, other pairs of instruments (folio 15).
Traditional Scottish songs and dances, one with directions for dancing, arranged for keyboard; and three pieces by D von Esch: an aria (vocal line and keyboard accompaniment but no words), a hornpipe, and a fancy., [1827, or after.]
The music is undated, but the paper of folio 4 is watermarked 1827.
Transcriptions chiefly for piano (a few for violin and piano) chiefly of Scottish dances, and some marches, by John Davidson., [?1910.]
The first piece is dated 1910.
A leaf is cut out after folio 15.
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson., 17th century-1963, undated.
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson., 17th century-1963, undated.
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson., 1687-1959, undated.
The manuscript includes some content created through a drum duplcation process.
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music, with some notes, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson., 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.
Treble part book of seven dance pieces by 'Mr Simpsone' (Christopher Simpson?)., 3rd quarter of 17th century.
MSS.9447-9458 consist of Scottish and English music, and French lute music, all dating from before 1675. MSS.9459-9469 consist of French music brought to Scotland by James and Harie Maule after their visits to France between 1678 and 1683. MSS.9470-9475 are opera scores and parts acquired by James Maule when in exile in Italy after the 1715 rising.
Trumpet parts of Scottish dance tunes., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
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.
Twenty-three pieces of music, chiefly dances, in French lute tablature., Mid 17th century.
Composers named are Gautier le vieux, Gautier d'Angleterre, Vincent, Pinel, Hautman, and Bouvier.
Volume of 'Opera songs' belonging to Hugh Rose of Kilravock (died 1755), whose name as Hugh Rose of Geddes, with the date 25 November 1738, are on the inside of the back cover.
The songs are set with a melody line and bass only, and consist of excerpts from works of many of the major opera composers of the first third of the 18th century, notably Hasse, Handel, Porpora and Vinci.
One or two small dances have been put into blank spaces, and on page 1 there is a set of variations by William McGibbon on a theme by Corelli.
Volume of Scottish music, comprising airs, Lowland and Highland, songs, dances, a pibroch, etc., 1838, undated.
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.