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:
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.
Transcripts and notes, I, early 20th century, partly typewritten, concerning the ‘Forty-five., 1685-1700, 1745-1747, 1802.
File
Identifier: MS.298
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Memorandum in the handwriting of Murray of Dollerie regarding the fate of his son Anthony, present at the battle of Culloden, 1746. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘Memorial for the Lord Braco to the Lord Advocate’, 1747. (Folio 4.)(iii) Correspondence of Lord Lewis Gordon and others with Mr Harry Milne, factor to Duff, the Laird of Drummuir, and other documents relating to the payment of levy-money to Prince Charles Edward, 1745-1746....
Dates:
1685-1700, 1745-1747, 1802.
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.
Two parodies of poems, 1818, of John Dryden and of 'Monk' Lewis by William Clapperton, teacher of French in Edinburgh, and translations, 1821, of Scots songs into Latin by James Beattie, writer in Edinburgh., 1818, 1821.
File
Identifier: MS.2745
Scope and Contents
There are notes on the authors (folios 6, 15) by George R Kinloch.
Dates:
1818, 1821.
Two songs by Hamish MacCunn (autograph), with words by G Moore: 'Keep your tears for me', and 'When twilight dews are falling soft'., 1885, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.6298, folios 7-14
Dates:
1885, undated.
Two untitled, undated, music books containing collections of songs by Joe Corrie., Mid 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26537-26538
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
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.
Typescript of 'There was a Lad', a play by Joe Corrie about Robert Burns in three acts, with songs., [Circa 1960.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26510
Dates:
[Circa 1960.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the playwright and author, Joe Corrie (1894-1968).
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Typescripts, often with manuscript corrections, of plays by Joe Corrie.
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Typescripts of longer stage plays by Joe Corrie.
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Typescripts of plays about Robert Burns by Joe Corrie.
Typescripts of poems and songs by Joe Corrie., 1949-1966, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26531-26532
Dates:
1949-1966, undated.
Typescripts of poems and songs with titles from A-M by Joe Corrie., 1949-1966, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26531
Typescripts of poems and songs with titles from N-Y by Joe Corrie., 1949-1966, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26532
Typescripts of speeches, poems, songs and plays of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray., 1898, 1924-1925, 1932, 1936.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3501/18-23
Dates:
1898, 1924-1925, 1932, 1936.
Unbound manuscript music., 1743-19th century, undated
File
Identifier: MS.3352 [Ing.305]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Military airs, almost all mentioned in the history of military music (MS.3353) which they were intended to illustrate. They are taken from various sources, such as the Dalhousie and Macfarlane manuscripts and a manuscript music-book of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and include transcripts of two manuscripts of William Byrd's Battle Piece. So far as possible, they have been arranged in the order in which they are mentioned in MS.3353, to the sections...
Dates:
1743-19th century, undated
Untitled, undated, music book containing a collection of songs by Joe Corrie., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.26537
Untitled, undated, music book containing a collection of songs by Joe Corrie., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.26538
Various arrangements of ‘Cauld kail het’ by G W Crawford., 1914.
File
Identifier: MS.21918
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) An arrangement for piano solo (folio 1), dated ‘30/6/14’ at folio 12;
(ii) A piano accompaniment (folio 13);
(iii) An incomplete arrangement for brass band (folio 21), corresponding to MS.21917, pages 1-11.
Dates:
1914.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
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Scottish music of G W Crawford.
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Full score, arrangements and piano accompaniment for ‘Cauld kail het’, a selection of Scots songs by G W Crawford.
Verse and music of Thomas Stewart, music-seller, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.10526
Dates:
early 20th century.
Verse and song collection of the Reverend Angus Macmillan., Circa 1935.
File
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 5(8)
Dates:
Circa 1935.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Reverend William Matheson.
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Collections of 18th-20th century papers acquired by Reverend William Matheson.
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Box of Reverend William Matheson, containing papers of Reverend Dr Duncan M Campbell and collections of Gaelic songs and verse.
Verse, undated, by John Stuart Blackie., Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2651
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: sonnets (folio 1), songs (folio 42), an epic on Jack the Giant-killer, in Greek and English (folio 80), fragments of a drama on Prometheus (folio 132), and miscellaneous (folio 148).
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Verses, songs and hymns of Jan Struther, arranged in alphabetical order by title, many unpublished, containing fair copies, drafts, notes and some music., Circa 1920-1951.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13220/20-22
Scope and Contents
Containing about 350 items.
Dates:
Circa 1920-1951.
Vocal music of Ian Whyte., Mid 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22088-22089
Vocal music of John Davidson, consisting of hymns and other religious compositions and settings of songs., [?1871-?1926.]
File
Identifier: MS.22071
Dates:
[?1871-?1926.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
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Musical compositions and other papers, chiefly undated, of John Davidson.
Vocal score of settings by Hamish MacCunn of one hundred Scottish songs., [Before 1891.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21980
Scope and Contents
Many of the songs are traditional airs and of the rest, many are by Robert Burns. There are small numbers of songs or poems by Allan Ramsay, Scott, Tannahill, Hogg, Lady Nairne and others.
Dates:
[Before 1891.]
Vocal scores and parts of various pieces of incidental music of G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
File
Identifier: MS.21967
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Portions (possibly specimen) of vocal score for 'Afifah' by Herbert Woodgate (folio 1), preceded (folio i) by a letter, 1931, to G W Crawford declining the music, and some leaves of the libretto;(ii) Vocal score of a song 'O gin my love were yon red rose' from the Head Manuscript, used in 'Cardinal Beaton', the full score of which is MS.21963 (folio 21);(iii) Vocal score of 'Fenella', the full score of which is MS.21964...
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
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Incidental music of G W Crawford.