Violin music.
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
'Collection of Scots Tunes, with Variations, for the Violin. 1775.'
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 Cuming musical manuscript, being the first known collection of Scottish music for the violin.
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 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 Panmure music books.
Microfilm of sixty-six pieces of music for violin (two in two parts), chiefly dances, with a further seven pieces in tablature (apparently for a three-stringed instrument).
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).
Modern copies made from ‘Original Scotch tunes, full of Highland humours, for the Violin’, published by Henry Playford, and from the second edition, from the collection of Thomas Davidson Cook.
Music and other papers of John Davidson and James Scott Skinner.
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.