Dances. Musical compositions.
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Band parts of Scottish dance tunes originally the property of Jockie Reid, a dance band leader and dancing instructor.
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.
'Evening amusement, being a collection of Scots tunes and strathspey reels 1789.'
Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.
Microfilm of a Panmure music book, a treble part book of seven dance pieces by 'Mr Simpsone' (Christopher Simpson?).
Microfilm of a Panmure music book containing seventy-seven pieces of music, dances, songs, and Scots airs, for violin.
Microfilm of about 100 pieces of music, chiefly dances, in French lute tablature.
Microfilm of assorted music, and notes on music and songs, chiefly Scottish.
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).
Microfilm of four untitled manuscripts of bagpipe music of Angus Mackay.
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).
Microfilm of 'Lessones for ye Violin', a collection of twenty-eight pieces for violin, including dances, marches, a set of variations, and Scots airs, a manuscript from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
Microfilm of music book of Leonora M H Grant containing highland dance tunes.
Microfilm of musical manuscript from the library at Newbattle Abbey, containing sixty-six pieces for violin (two in two parts), chiefly dances, with a further seven pieces in tablature (apparently for a three-stringed instrument).
Microfilm of musical works, chiefly dances, from the papers of the firm of J and R Glen.
Microfilm of Panmure music book, containing twenty-three pieces of music, chiefly dances, in French lute tablature.
Microfilm of Panmure music books.
Microfilm of photocopy of David Young, "A Collection of Countrey Dances written for... the Duke of Perth".
Microfilm of Scottish music, [1838]; and, dance tunes, [circa 1765], chiefly arranged for the English guitar or the cittern.
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).
Microfilm of twenty-three pieces of music, chiefly dances, in French lute tablature.
Microfilm of two musical manuscripts, [circa 1680], from the library at Newbattle Abbey; and, a Panumre music book, mid 17th century.
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).
Microfilm of two Panmure music books.
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.
Music book, compiled apparently towards the end of the eighteenth century, containing dances, marches and some songs.
Music book compiled by J Crichton Donaldson.
Music book containing Scottish dance tunes (very largely reels and strathspeys) for violin.
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.
Music book of Helen Howorth Graham containing dances and other pieces.
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.
Music book of Henrietta Dundas Dalrymple Hamilton, daughter of Sir Hew, 4th Baronet of Bargany, later the Duchesse de Coigny.
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.
Music book of Jessie Hamilton, Leith, containing a few dances and other pieces arranged for keyboard.
Folios 12, 21 verso, 70-77 contain a few songs in a later hand, or hands.