Dances. Musical compositions.
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Music book of John Thompson Smith containing dance and song tunes for the German flute, 1810, and at the back, for the Spanish guitar, 1826.
Some music has been written in a later (possibly a child's) hand at folio 20.
Leaves have been torn out before folios 13, 22, 23, 26, and 28, and folios 13-19, 21-28 are blank.
Music book of Leonora Grant consisting of leaves and gatherings of leaves containing dances, marches and songs, bound together inside a pair of hard covers.
Music book of simple treble notation, containing marches, dances and songs, which appears to have been owned successively by Francis and John Hughes, whose names are written at the front and back of the book respectively.
Francis Hughes appears to have been the first owner and to have written most of the pieces; a tune apparently entitled 'March y[e] 21:' (folio 16 verso) is described as having been 'Perform:[d] at the Kings Coronation', apparently that of George III, in September 1761. The signature of John Hughes appears inside the back cover, and, dated 1768, at folio i (inverted). Most of the pieces at the back of the volume are religious. The book appears to lack a leaf before folio 1.
Music book, undated, compiled in the north of England, consisting of various gatherings of sheets bound together, containing dances, songs and marches (including a number of Scottish tunes), and some other music, all written in a number of hands.
None of the pieces is dated, but some of the sheets have watermarks ranging in date from 1817 to 1825. The last third of the volume is blank.
Included are four unidentified sonatas for two flutes (folios 52-56).
Music books, apparently a fragment of a collection of at least twenty-one volumes, all apparently the original property of the daughters of James Douglas of Cavers (succeeded 1815).
MSS.21784-21790 are numbered at the front, and the contents of MSS.21784-21785, 21787-21792 are preceded by contents lists, all apparently in the same hand.
From the four dates visible, the collection would appear to have been in the possession of the Misses Douglas about or somewhat before the mid-19th century.
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.
The music is chiefly arranged for pianoforte, except MS.3378, which is for violin.
Notebook with hand-written staves throughout, containing music for keyboard consisting of dances, some songs and a few marches, all written apparently soon after 1750.
Photocopies of a collection of music books.
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.
Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
Song and music book of Margaret, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Honourable Adolphus Frederick Cathcart, containing songs (arranged for voice and keyboard) and dances.
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.