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Parts. Scores.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: The musical notation within a music score specific to a particular instrument. Such instrument parts may either be represented together in a single score, by stave one below the other, or else as separate parts, one for each instrument. Not to be confused with the looser usage of the term as applied to specific parts of the music for an instrument, for example the treble and the bass parts for the piano.

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Band parts of Scottish dance tunes originally the property of Jockie Reid, a dance band leader and dancing instructor.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21828-21831
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Early 20th century-mid 20th century.

Microfilm of Panmure music books.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.441
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of seven dance pieces by 'Mr Simpsone' (Christopher Simpson?) (MS.9453);Seventy-seven pieces of music, dances, songs, and Scots airs, for violin, [circa 1675] (MS.9454);First treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of pieces of music, chiefly dances, for viols (MS.9455);Second treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of pieces of music, chiefly dances, for viols...
Dates: 3rd quarter of 17th century-[circa 1675].

Microfilm of various music books and part books.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.839
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Part book, [?1789], for flutes in the Argyleshire militia band (MS.9601);Part book, 1789, for first clarinet in the Argyleshire militia band (MS.9602);“John MacKillop’s music book”, 1813 (MS.21739);“Duncan Clark’s musick book”, 1813 (MS.21740);Music book, 1813, of Archibald McArthur (MS.21741);Music book, 1813, of Charles MacPherson (MS.21742);Music book, 1813, containing music apparently...
Dates: 1789, 1813.

Miscellany of music.

 File
Identifier: MS.21850
Scope and Contents The material consists of:(i) A setting, 1772, for voice and piano by John Collett of 'An ode in honour of the birthday of Andrew Crosbie' by John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn (folio 1);(ii) A copy, in an early nineteenth-century (apparently contemporary) hand, of Karl Czerny, 'Choix de Walses brillantes et faciles pour le piano-forte' (folio 11);(iii) A full score, in an apparently late eighteenth-century hand, of the aria 'Son confusa pastorella' from the...
Dates: 1745-early 19th century.

Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents

The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.

Dates: Mid 20th century-1988, undated.

Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21881-21974
Scope and Contents Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates: 1892-1941, undated.