Songs. Musical compositions.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Musical compositions, typically relatively short, consisting of words, melody and, often but not necessarily, other elements of musical arrangement. The words, which may be sung with or without instrumental accompaniment, may be specific to the music, lyrics, or the music may be composed to accompany existing words, such as those of a poem.
Found in 165 Collections and/or Records:
Song texts, mostly photocopies, with some music staff and solfa notation.
File
Identifier: Acc.11743
Dates:
mid 20th century.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
Item
Identifier: MS.6299
Scope and Contents
There is an index on folio 1; the songs begin on folio 5.The Scottish songs appear to come mainly from Allan Ramsay's ‘Tea table miscellany’ and David Herd's ‘Ancient and modern Scottish songs’ (1776), though some of the songs may have been picked up by ear, as they include a very debased version of Henry Carey's 'Sally in our alley' (folio 17 verso) and "My heart's in the Highlands" in an apparently unknown version different from that of Burns (folio 81 verso)....
Dates:
18th century.
Songs, airs from oratorios, minuets, etc., written out at the end of an imperfect copy of ‘Lessons on the practice of singing, with an addition of the church tunes, in four parts, and a collection of hymns ; canons, airs and catches, for the improvement of beginners', by Cornforth Gilson (Edinburgh, 1759).
Item
Identifier: MS.633
Scope and Contents
On the first end-paper and on the fly-leaves (folios i, ii) there are quotations of poetry about music. The date of the manuscript is probably not much later than the date of publication of the book.
Dates:
[1759, or after.]
Songs collected and arranged by Duncan M Morison, Stornoway.
File
Identifier: MS.14977
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) “Gur fhada ris na dh’fhuirich mi”, 7 stanzas. ‘Lewis Spinning Song’. Also at middle of folio 3 verso (folio 1 recto);(ii) “Dh’fhalbhainn leat do Mhiabhaig an Uig”, 5 stanzas. With English translation in Hector MacIver’s hand (bottom of folio 3 verso) (folio 2 verso);(iii) “Mairi bheag bhan na suidhe air an làr”, 2 stanzas. “Child Bridesmaid’s Plaint” (folio 3 verso);(iv) ‘When Alexander oor King was deid’, 1...
Dates:
1932-1938.
‘Songs of Robert Burns’, edited by J C Dick, and ‘Early Scottish melodies’ by John Glen, with additions and corrections in the form of notes, marginal and inserted, in the printed volumes.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3131-3133
Scope and Contents
Many of the notes are in the autographs of Frank Kidson and Thomas Davidson Cook. They are mainly textual, dealing with sources, language, spelling, etc., but some scores of tunes are given.
Dates:
1900, 1903, undated.
'Songs of the Gael', being copies of Irish songs and airs.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21836-21838
Scope and Contents
Copies of Irish songs and airs made, 1922-1926, from an unidentified earlier collection (or collections: cf MSS.21836, folio ii, 21837, folio i).The volumes are different from the work by Lachlan Macbean published under the same title at Stirling in 1921.The copies appear to have been made by Annie M Higgins, possibly for Alexander B Ritchie, a leading medical practitioner in Manchester.The copies are in simple treble notation, not accompanied by words,...
Dates:
?19th century-1924.
The Melrosian Annual, 1888
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13258
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volume consisting of essays, short stories, anecdotes and verse contributed by past and present members of staff of the firm of Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers. Many of the contributions are reminiscences of the shop and its customers including Professor John Stuart Blackie, f.198, Edinburgh and society. The volume is illustrated with a few pen and ink drawings.Inscribed W.R.M. on inside front cover. With note at the front affirming that this volume...
Dates:
1888, 1917
Three songs copied by Bertha Feitis, "Spinn Spinn", by Hugo Jüngst, "Die Mutter an der Wiege", by Carl Loewe, and "Es Muss ein Wunderbares Sein", by Ferenc Liszt.
File
Identifier: Acc.9443
Dates:
circa 1900.
Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Transcripts, 18th century, of journals, 1547-1553, of the House of Lords for the reign of Edward VI; with a collection of songs and airs, 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.31
Dates:
1547-1553, 18th century.
Twenty songs and choruses of George Frideric Handel, composer.
Item
Identifier: MS.6301 [BH.Add.48]
Scope and Contents
The works are from the oratorios "Alexander's Feast", 'Samson', 'Deborah', 'Occasional Oratorio', 'Saul', 'Susanna', 'Judas Maccabaeus', and the "Ode for St Cecilia's Day", in vocal score; with two marches, from the 'Occasional Oratorio', and 'Judas Maccabaeus', arranged for keyboard. They are written in a professional hand, and most of them include a note of performance time.
The music begins on folio 7, the preceding folios containing a contents list.
Dates:
1733-1749.
Typescript libretto and manuscript musical sketches for opera of Learmont Drysdale, "Flora Macdonald".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4694
Scope and Contents
With manuscript arrangements of eight Scots songs.
Dates:
circa 1903.
Verse and music of Thomas Stewart, music-seller, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.10526
Dates:
early 20th century.
Words and music for a song "Lovely Loch Awe" of Thomas A Ewart, Oban.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11925
Dates:
1st half of 20th century
Words and music of lyrics and comic operas by Archibald F Hyslop.
File
Identifier: Acc.9543
Scope and Contents
Many composed for the singer and comedian Harry Gordon, with correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1935-1960.