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 411 Collections and/or Records:
'Old airs, collected and written down by George Riddell. Begun in 1903’., 1903.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3042-3043
Scope and Contents
108 airs, with many of which the words of one verse are given. To some, George Riddell has added a note stating where he obtained the melody.
Dates:
1903.
'Old airs, collected and written down by George Riddell. Begun in 1903, book I', containing airs 1-84., 1903.
File
Identifier: MS.3042
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
108 airs, with many of which the words of one verse are given. To some, George Riddell has added a note stating where he obtained the melody.
Dates:
1903.
'Old airs, collected and written down by George Riddell. Begun in 1903, book II', containing airs 85-108., 1903.
File
Identifier: MS.3043
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
108 airs, with many of which the words of one verse are given. To some, George Riddell has added a note stating where he obtained the melody.
Dates:
1903.
Original and revised autograph settings by Robin Orr of "The Kimmers o' Cougate", a song from Sydney Goodsir Smith's play 'Colickie Meg', preceded by a letter of the composer presenting the setting to the donor., 1955.
File
Identifier: MS.22016, folios 1-3
Original letters and transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott., 1806-1832.
File
Identifier: MS.855
Scope and Contents
Includes a song celebrating Lord Melville's acquittal, 'The Lawyer and the Archbishop of Canterbury', evidently by Sir Walter Scott, 1806 (folio 2).
Dates:
1806-1832.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Letters of Sir Walter Scott.
'Over the Water to Charlie': variants of words and music, removed from MS.3132., [1900, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.3133
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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, or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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‘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.
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‘Early Scottish melodies’ (Edinburgh, 1900) by John Glen, with additions and corrections in the form of notes, marginal and inserted; with variants of the words and music of ‘Over the Water to Charlie’.
Papers, 1846-1983 and undated, of and concerning James F Dickie, fiddler.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10389
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, photographs and music.
With letters and music, 1888-1924 and undated, of James Scott Skinner, and music, 1935-1968 and undated, of John Murdoch Henderson.
Dates:
1846-1983 and undated.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.16
Scope and Contents
The source material and translations are variously endorsed or annotated by Henry Mackenzie, Donald Mackintosh, and Ewen MacLachlan.The contents are as follows.(M 1). Notes by John Francis Campbell, dated 25 November 1872. (Folio 1.)(i) Cover, probably for folios 12-22, 24-33. Bears hands of Ewen MacLachlan and Mackintosh MacKay. Cf. Adv.MS.73.2.10, folio 207. (Folio 2.)(M 2). Ossianic fragments with some corresponding passages from James...
Dates:
[1794, or after]-1872, undated.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers collected by the Rymour Club, chiefly containing material not printed in the ‘Miscellanea’., ?19th century-?early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3768
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Two sets of corrections to T G Stevenson's 'Sempill ballates’, with notes (folio 1);(ii) Popular rhymes (folio 17), with a girls' singing-game (folio 28) and a skipping-rope rhyme (folio 29);(iii) Children's rhymes and a game (folio 30);(iv) Proverbs and sayings (folio 47);(v) Stories (folio 57);(vi) Miscellaneous verse and prose (folio 64), including copies of five poems of Henry Scott...
Dates:
?19th century-?early 20th century.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of and concerning John Corrie.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10839
Scope and Contents
Includes poems, songs and correspondence.
Dates:
1918-1954.
Papers of and concerning the poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26721-26792
Scope and Contents
Born in Elderslie and educated in Tarbert Loch Fyne, Edinburgh and Oxford, George Campbell Hay spent most of his life in Edinburgh, but preserved a lifelong attachment to Kintyre, and in particular to Tarbert.
Much of his poetry is a celebration of Kintyre, the land and its people, particularly the fishermen. Most of these poems had been written between 1938 and 1945 and already published in periodicals; they include translations from eleven languages. Hay's most important work,...
Dates:
[Circa 1925]-1987, undated.
Papers of and relating to Harry Lauder.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13330
Scope and Contents
Papers, circa 1900-1935, of and relating to Sir Harry Lauder. Includes scripts of `patter`, songs and music by Lauder and other writers; draft of `Immortal Memory` speech given by Lauder in Boston, USA, 1915; letter, 1917, of Hannen Swaffer, editor of `The Weekly Dispatch`, praising Lauder`s appearance on the London stage after his son`s death in action in France in December 1916.
Dates:
Circa 1900-1935.
Papers of Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd., 1911-?1978, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27442
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscripts and one typescript of poems by Nan Shepherd, 1911-1950, undated (folio 1); (ii) Printed and typescript copies of poems by other poets, 1938-?1978, undated (folio 6); (iii) Miscellaneous papers, 1934-1949, undated (folio 42).
Dates:
1911-?1978, undated.
Papers of Dr Kenneth Macleod.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9927
Scope and Contents
Includes songs, poems, sermons and correspondence.
Dates:
1906-1955.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.9.1-81.9.12
Dates:
Late 17th century-?1829.
Papers of John MacCallum, policeman, Glasgow.
File
Identifier: Acc.12529
Scope and Contents
Includes Gaelic songs and music.
Dates:
circa 1890-1925.
Papers of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940).
Series
Identifier: MSS.14884-14889
Scope and Contents
Gaelic manuscripts of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940), third daughter of John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray, 7th duke of Atholl (1840-1917). Having learned Gaelic in her youth, she collected 240 Gaelic folk tales in Perthshire (the manuscripts now held in Blair Castle), and also left behind notebooks of Gaelic songs and other Gaelic material. The contents are as follows.MS.14884. Songs copied from McLagan Collection; small collection of hymns...
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Papers of Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley relating to the 51st (Highland) Division in the First and Second World Wars.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7380/1-95
Scope and Contents
Maps, accounts, diaries, lectures and other papers, mainly concerning operations, 1942-1943, of the 51st (Highland) Division in North Africa and Sicily, together with a smaller quantity of associated post-war correspondence and some papers, 1918, concerning the Division in the First World War.
Dates:
1914-1976, undated.
Papers of Morris Blythman, pseudonym Thurso Berwick.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10830
Scope and Contents
Includes songs written or collected by Blythman and papers concerning Hugh MacDiarmid and John Maclean.
Dates:
1961-1979 and undated.
Papers of Robert Moir., 1537-1862, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21775
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) A psalm setting by Robert Moir written on two leaves cut out of MS.21774 after folio 17 and pasted to a larger sheet of stiff paper. (Folio 1.)(ii) Extracts from newspapers and other periodical publications concerning musical topics published between 1852 and 1862 (and some from earlier sources), written on twenty-five printed bifolia (from a larger number) containing a prospectus and a subscription list for ‘Beauties of the Bible’ by...
Dates:
1537-1862, undated.
Papers of Rose Ethel Bassin, Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, Associate of the Royal College of Music (1889-1974), music-teacher, song-collector, and biographer of Frances Tolmie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14910-14946
Scope and Contents
Rose Ethel Bassin was born in Edinburgh of Ukrainian extraction, and studied music under Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and others. She taught in schools in England (1907-1911, 1919-1920), Edinburgh (1915), Newton Stewart (1916-1919), Stornoway (1920-1924) and Skye (1924-1927). During 1927-1934 she lectured in the University of British Columbia. After some time in London she spent the war years teaching in Harris, the Uist and Barra. She moved to Dingwall Academy in 1945, finally becoming Music...
Dates:
1926-1968, undated.