Reels. Musical compositions: Dances.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Musical compositions for regulating the movements of a reel; a lively dance, typically in simple or duple time, chiefly associated with Scotland, danced by two couples facing each other and describing a series of figures of eight.
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
About 100 pieces of music, chiefly dances, in French lute tablature., Mid 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.9452
Scope and Contents
Many of the pieces are by Rene Mésangeau, and the manuscript closely resembles in its binding, watermark, and musical hand, a volume prepared after 1632 possibly for a pupil of Mésangeau and now in the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris - see ‘Oeuvres de René Mésangeau’ (Paris, 1971) edited by Monique Rollin. Other composers represented include Pinel (allemande, folio 33) and Dubut le père (courante, folio 54).
Dates:
Mid 17th century.
Album of reels, minuets, hornpipes, marches, and other dances, with a list of reels (incomplete) at the beginning and notes of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe., 1st half of 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3346 [Ing.153]
Scope and Contents
Inside the end cover is a note, "Mr. Stenhouse's Vol. X. MSS".
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
'Collection of the Best and Most Favourite Tunes For the Violin. In four Parts. Also an Introduction with Directions for Playing the Violin. Perth. Collected and Transcribed by lames Gillespie'., 1768.
File
Identifier: MS.808
Scope and Contents
The book is divided into: airs and marches, Scots tunes, minuets, and hornpipes, jigs and reels.
Dates:
1768.
Miscellaneous classifications - reels by keys, strathspey 'patterns', 'Auld Land Syne and Co.', and bagpipe tunes., [Circa 1930]-1953, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21699
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
[Circa 1930]-1953, undated.
Most of the material for MS.3110: 'Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd Music...', in rough form, with jottings of some reels and marches, one or two tunes from Angus Mackay's ‘Collection of ancient Piobaireachd’, and one, apparently, from the Ballindalloch Manuscript., 1882, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3111
Scope and Contents
Several tunes are given under names other than those which they usually bear. At folio 1 is a circular letter, undated, of Donald Stuart Macdonald, from Malta, announcing his intention of continuing Angus Mackay's publication.
Dates:
1882, undated.
Original manuscript of 'Mackenzie Fraser', a reel by James Scott Skinner, and a scrap of paper containing his undated signature., 1905, undated.
Fonds
Identifier: MS.22078, folios 1-2
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.
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.
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson., 17th century-1963, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21701-21702
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
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.
File
Identifier: MS.21701
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
17th century-1963, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
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Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music, with some notes, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson.
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Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson.
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson., 1687-1959, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21702
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes some content created through a drum duplcation process.
Dates:
1687-1959, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
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Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music, with some notes, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson.
/
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson.
Transcripts of reels, strathspeys, airs and other miscellaneous music, with some notes, chiefly in the hand of John Murdoch Henderson., 17th century-1963, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21700-21702
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
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.
File
Identifier: MS.21700
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
1719-1956, undated.