Ballads.
Found in 126 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Dr Robert Anderson, 1799-1808, undated, including copies of ballads and other poems, printed and in manuscript, and a copy of a letter, 1808, of the Archbishop of Canterbury., 1799-1808, undated.
Papers of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale concerning public affairs., 1702-1711, undated.
Papers of the Rymour Club, Edinburgh, which existed from 1903 to 1947, its object being the collection of Scottish ballads, popular rhymes, proverbs, and the like.
Part of a ballad on the battle of Flodden., ?17th century-early 18th century.
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs., 17th century.
Among several citations from bardic verse are one from Tadhg Dali Ó Huiginn (died circa 1591), and one from a poem by Eoghan Mac an Bhaird (died 1609) on the death of Ruaidhri Ó Domhnaill, Earl of Tirconnel, which took place in Rome in 1608.
Photostats of parts of 'Adversaria', a commonplace-book of Sir Walter Scott., 1796.
Poems, ballads, epigrams, etc., some in Scots, with the title-page: 'Trifles light as Air. By Johnnie Grotts. Nemo onmibus horis sapit. 1806'., 1806.
Setting of a version of the ballad, ‘The twa sisters’, by Arthur Somervell.
Slips bearing index verborum to Ossianic ballads from the Book of the Dean of Lismore in the hand of Donald C MacPherson.
Song book in simple treble notation containing songs and ballads, including several Scottish ones, and operatic arias, sung in London (many of them by John Braham) and Edinburgh.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
Songs of David Stephen., Early 20th century.
'Street songs and ballads' by G Foxton Ferguson containing printed and manuscript keyboard settings in various hands tipped and pasted in with a number of settings written on some of the original leaves, chiefly undated., 1911-1918, undated.
The title is taken from folio 1.
The manuscript settings are dated between 1911 (folio 17 verso) and 1918 (folio 20), but most, and all the printed settings, are undated.
The settings at folios i verso and 25 are pasted inside the front and back covers respectively.
Three notebooks of William Findlay.
Containing:
ballads collected by William Findlay
lectures, 1861-1862, of the Reverend Robert Buchanan on logic and rhetoric
correspondence, 1952-1958, of William Montgomerie.
Two volumes of ballads compiled by Mrs Brown of Falkland.
Typescript 'Lyrics and ballads by Pittendrigh Macgillivray, written during the year 1936', (Edinburgh)., 1936.
Typescripts and corrected proofs of collections of poetry., 1927-1929.
The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript, with a few manuscript corrections, of Lady Margaret Sackville, ‘Romantic ballads’ (Edinburgh, 1927) (folio 1); (ii) Typescript of Sir Alexander Gray, 'Gossip’ (Edinburgh, 1928) (folio 13); (iii) Two sets of page-proofs of Marion Angus, ‘The singin' lass’ (Edinburgh, 1929) (folio 35); (iv) Page-proofs of Robert Crawford, ‘In quiet fields’ (Edinburgh, 1929) (folio 87).
Typescripts of a collection of ballads of Sir Alexander Gray, titled 'Posthumous ballads', possibly intended for a publication similar to 'Four-and forty'., [Circa 1960.]
Some of the ballads are revised versions of those in MS.26010.
Typescripts of Sir Alexander Gray, with some annotations, of a collection of Danish ballads., 1955-1958, undated.
A few proofs and printed versions are included.
Vocal score of ‘Lochinvar’ by G W Crawford, for voice and piano accompaniment., [?1892-?1941.]
Vocal score of the setting by Hamish MacCunn of “The Cameronian's dream”, opus 10, a ballad for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra, by James Hyslop., [?1890.]
Tipped in at the front (folios i-ii) are press cuttings from the 'Scotsman' and the 'Edinburgh Evening News' of 28 January 1890 describing the work and reporting the concert in which it received its premiere.