Photocopies.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: General term for copies produced by photocopying, that is, in a machine employing a light-sensitive process, and usually at a one-to-one scale. In the early to mid-20th century, used regarding copies made by various specific processes; since the mid-20th century, most often refers to xerographic copies.
Found in 1154 Collections and/or Records:
Xerox of a manuscript music book containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane., 1808.
Item
Identifier: MS.14949(a)
Scope and Contents
This music book is the source of much of the Clephanes’ privately printed collection of 1808 (Microfilm MS.266). Almost half is Gaelic. Includes (folio 57) an otherwise unrecorded air for “Eachann Bacach’s Thriall ar bunadh gu Phàro”.
Dates:
1808.
Xerox of a manuscript music book containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane., 1816, 1825.
Item
Identifier: MS.14949(b)
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-69 consist of harp tunes, chiefly Irish – "Carolan, Ó Cathain", etc., and appear to have been copied by Anna Jane in December 1816 (folio 69) from a manuscript of a Mr MacDonald (folios 14, 39, 43, 49). This may have been the Reverend Patrick MacDonald of Kilmore, compiler of ‘A collection of Highland vocal airs’. A tune at folio 52, “An Irish Girls lamentation for the loss of her Lover”, is described as “Taken by Macdonald from Mr. Murphy of Cambelton” – probably William MacMurchy,...
Dates:
1816, 1825.
Xerox of a manuscript music book containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane., 1821-1823.
Item
Identifier: MS.14949(c)
Scope and Contents
A highly miscellaneous collection of Scots, Gaelic and Irish songs, 18th century operatic airs, etc., chiefly arranged for voice and keyboard. Dated at folios 38 (‘Gaelic air picked up at sea Sept. 1823’), 47 (“Una’s song. A.J.D.C. April 25th 1822”) and 116 (‘Ballads still unset Une 16th 1821’). Most of the small number of Gaelic airs are indexed at folio 119.
Dates:
1821-1823.
Xeroxes of three manuscript music books containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane of Torloisk, Mull.
Series
Identifier: MS.14949(a)-(c)
Scope and Contents
The airs in the music books are drawn from a broad range of cultures, including Gaelic.
Dates:
1808-1825.