Fiddle music.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Musical compositions specifically composed or arranged for fiddle, regardless of the notation in which they are recorded.
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
Books containing Scottish fiddle music., 1792-1869.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21703-21707
Dates:
1792-1869.
Collection of fiddle tunes, including traditional material, tunes gathered from contemporary publications (notably that of William Marshall), and a number of minuets with Scottish dedications, many of these last set for fiddle duet., [Circa 1800.]
File
Identifier: MS.21704
Dates:
[Circa 1800.]
Collection of Scottish tunes, quadrilles and other dances, formerly the property of George Silver, piano tuner, Aberdeen., [Circa 1840.]
File
Identifier: MS.21706
Dates:
[Circa 1840.]
Collections of music for fiddle.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21714-21732
Dates:
[Circa 1705-before 1977], undated.
"James Allan's concert, 11 May 1869." The first fiddle part for the concert of Scottish music given in honour of James Allan of Forfar., 1869.
Item
Identifier: MS.21707
Last seventeen pages and the index from what was once a large collection of Scottish dance tunes for fiddle., [Circa 1820.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21705
Scope and Contents
The music includes two duets (folios 4 verso-5, 6 verso-7), and on folio 5 a scale, for the oboe.
Dates:
[Circa 1820.]
Leaves containing fiddle music, a fragment of a much larger work, bound inside a pair of hard covers for Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, who has inscribed the inner front cover and written 'Vol: 2nd' on the flyleaf.
Item
Identifier: MS.21841
Scope and Contents
The leaves, watermarked 1801, are paginated between 209 and 255 (with omissions, and somewhat out of order).
Many leaves are soiled or torn, and a loose leaf, apparently from another source, containing minuets (folio 24), has been tipped in at the back.
Dates:
[1801, or after.]
Microfilm of music book of George Bowie, consisting of 50 fiddle tunes, some with bass (reversed).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.562
Dates:
[Circa 1705.]
Music book 1 containing fiddle music written by William McKinley., [?1830-?1840.]
Item
Identifier: MS.22137
Scope and Contents
The music book contains sheets apparently watermarked 1819. A piece of paper dated 1838 is pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
[?1830-?1840.]
Music book 2 containing fiddle music written by William McKinley., [?1830-?1840.]
Item
Identifier: MS.22138
Scope and Contents
The music book is lacking single leaves after folios 29 and 47, which have been replaced.
A piece of paper dated 1837 is pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
[?1830-?1840.]
Music book 3 containing fiddle music written by William McKinley., [?1830-?1840.]
Item
Identifier: MS.22139
Scope and Contents
A piece of paper dated 1836 is tipped inside the front cover.
Dates:
[?1830-?1840.]
Music book 4 containing fiddle music written by William McKinley., [?1830-?1840.]
Item
Identifier: MS.22140
Scope and Contents
The music book is lacking pairs of leaves at folios 34, 35, 46 and 49, which have been replaced.
Dates:
[?1830-?1840.]
Music book containing a collection of tunes by Cape Breton composers, compiled, 1977, by Danny Fraser of Sydney, Cape Breton., 1977.
Item
Identifier: MS.21732
Dates:
1977.
Music book containing about 750 Scottish tunes, some possibly original, but most taken from Marshall, Fraser, and the Gows, and other contemporary published sources., [Circa 1825.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21725
Scope and Contents
The paper is watermarked 1818.
Dates:
[Circa 1825.]
Music book containing ballroom dances and Scottish tunes including the strathspey ‘Glenlivet’ from ‘Elgin collection of Scotch music’ by J S Skinner., [Circa 1885.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21731
Dates:
[Circa 1885.]
Music book containing pipe and fiddle music., Mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.22121
Scope and Contents
The volume, which lacks both covers, is written in an unidentified hand. A number of the pieces have been marked 'not correct' and crossed out.
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Music book containing Scottish tunes and ballroom dances., [Circa 1860.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21730
Dates:
[Circa 1860.]
Music book of A Robertson, Parkhill, compiled circa 1860, and containing many tunes associated with Deeside and the North East., [Circa 1860.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21729
Dates:
[Circa 1860.]
Music book of Alexander Fraser, 79 King Street, Glasgow., 1820.
Item
Identifier: MS.21724
Dates:
1820.
Music book of Alexander Fraser, probably the same as the owner of MS.21724: Music book of Alexander Fraser, 79 King Street, Glasgow, compiled 1837., ?Mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21727
Dates:
?Mid 19th century.
Music book of Alexander Smith., 1792-1795.
Item
Identifier: MS.21703
Scope and Contents
Alexander Smith, known as 'Dancie Smith', was a fiddler from Byth in Aberdeenshire. His collection includes many of the well-known tunes of his day, but an unusually large proportion appears to be of his own composition.
Dates:
1792-1795.
Music book of George Bowie, consisting of 50 fiddle tunes, some with bass (reversed)., [Circa 1705.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21714
Scope and Contents
The tunes are chiefly Scottish, but include (folio 21) the song 'Though you make no return to my passion', by Henry Purcell, from the incidental music, 1693, to the play "The maid's last prayer" by Thomas Southerne.Seven of the tunes, 'Wappat the widow' (folios 1 verso and 10 verso), 'Love is the cause of my mourning' (folio 6 verso), 'Allan Water' (folio 9 verso), "Hallowe'en" (folio 17), "The Laird of Cockpen's Scotch measure" (folio 17 verso), 'Old lang syne' (folio 31 verso),...
Dates:
[Circa 1705.]
Music book of James Knox, possibly the James Knox of Nethershields who was factor to the Stuarts of Castlemilk and Torrance., [Circa 1750-circa 1764.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21717
Scope and Contents
The collection of music for fiddle or fiddle (occasionally flute) duet contains material by the international composers of the day, music by Scottish composers such as McGibbon and Oswald, a wide range of traditional music, and a number of tunes, e.g. ‘The feud’ (folio 29 verso), ‘Giga allegro of Browncastle’ (folio 32 verso) and an unnamed tune (folio 39), by James Knox himself.Every second opening between folios 1 and 10, and some others, contain extracts on musical theory,...
Dates:
[Circa 1750-circa 1764.]
Music book of John Galbraith, dated at both Auchenroy and Dalcairnie, near Dalmellington, 30 September 1836., 1836.
Item
Identifier: MS.21726
Dates:
1836.
Music book of John Knox (possibly the son of the compiler of MS.21717), compiled May 1776-February 1778, and consisting almost entirely of Scottish tunes set for the fiddle., [Circa 1776.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21718
Dates:
[Circa 1776.]