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:
Correspondence and papers of the Hume family, chiefly of Alexander and William, musicians and songwriters.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11764
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts of two songs to settings by Alexander Hume.
Dates:
1852-1913 and undated.
Correspondence concerning Strathtay traditions; place-names; Alexander MacGregor’s Black Watch Song, translated by Alexander Gow, etc., 1925-1926, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.462
Dates:
1925-1926, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning folklore, traditions etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Correspondence, journals, and songs, chiefly in the autographs of Lady Nairne and of her sisters, Mrs Stewart of Bonskeid, Mrs Steuart of Dalguise, and Mrs Keith of Ravelston.
Series
Identifier: MSS.980-986
Dates:
1763-1847.
Correspondence of the Reverend James Morton., 1811-1875, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3381
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letters, 1811-1875 (folio 1), chiefly about John Leyden, the publication of his life and works and the sale of his books and manuscripts, but including several dealing with the Reverend James Morton's own affairs and an account of Van Diemen's Land, extracted from a letter (folio 175);(ii) Newspaper-cuttings relating to John Leyden, 1811-1861 (folio 193);(iii) Youthful letter of Morton and list of woven goods, undated (folio...
Dates:
1811-1875, undated.
Diary of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6260-6289
Scope and Contents
The diary entries consist of records of personal experiences, and rambling didactic essays. The topics include observations on religion, philosophy, current events, sex, education, music, art and literature; there are copies of songs and music, a complete essay on marriage, and accounts of travels, notably a journey to Glasgow, 1822 (MS.6260), and a sea-trip to the Irish coast (MS.6272).Some miscellaneous newspaper cuttings and catalogues are inserted in the diary; and there are...
Dates:
1822-1836.
Draft of music and words of "Edinburgh Nonsense", by John and Janet Hamilton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9263
Dates:
circa 1939.
Drafts and fair copies of settings of ten songs by Francis George Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.22018
Scope and Contents
Five of the settings are of poems of Robert Burns (folios 1-27).
Dates:
1922, 1933, 1940, 1943, 1946, undated.
Early draft of 'On Glaister's Hill' by William Jeffrey., ?1945.
Item
Identifier: MS.26896
Scope and Contents
A song, 'We'll hae laen sae lang', is written inside the back cover.
Dates:
?1945.
'Early Scottish melodies’ (Edinburgh, 1900) by John Glen, with additions and corrections in the form of notes, marginal and inserted., 1900.
File
Identifier: MS.3132
Dates:
1900.
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’.
‘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’., 1900.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3132-3133
Eight letters and the words of a song of John Hay Beith to Miss E Spartali.
File
Identifier: Acc.9748
Scope and Contents
Letters concern literary matters.
Dates:
1907-1911.
Eight songs with music (vocal line and guitar harmonies) of Alan Rankine and William Mackenzie.
File
Identifier: Acc.7106
Dates:
1978.
Extracts, 1839, from the lute book, 1627-1629, of Robert Gordon of Straloch, transcribed in tablature by George Farquhar Graham.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of 30 pieces for lute, some dances, some song tunes, mostly Scottish, but including William Basse`s
`Hunter`s Career` (folios 18 verso-19). It includes an introduction giving a history of the original manuscript, some explanation of lute
tablature, and a list of the original contents.
Robert Gordon`s original manuscript is now lost.
Dates:
1839.
Fair copy by Ronald Stevenson of small section of his 1948 composition, "Then Cherish Pity ...".
Item
Identifier: Acc.13604
Dates:
2004
Final versions of musical compositions of Ronald Center., Mid 20th century-[?1973], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22186
Dates:
Mid 20th century-[?1973], undated.
Four manuscript music books, collected by William Arnot Watterston.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11680
Scope and Contents
Books contain four part arrangements for violin, cello and flute of 230 airs, songs, reels and strathspeys.
Dates:
circa 1869-1883.
Four music books.
File
Identifier: Acc.12347
Scope and Contents
Collection of 11 reels or marches and seven songs, transcribed/belonging to Margaret Robertson; "Of notes and there [sic] lengths", belonging to John Johnston; collection of 49 songs or reels for harpsichord, holograph Charlotte Ellis; volume of 28 tunes with ownership mark of Charlotte Ellis.
Dates:
Late 18th century to early 19th century.
Four volumes of music, including songs by Lady John Scott, detailed in Miss Warrender’s notes in MS.834., Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.838-841
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
"Franco-Scottish March, for full orchestra, arranged from 'The Scottish Tribute to France'. Cantata for chorus and orchestra, written by his Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.T., composed by Learmont Drysdale.", 1903.
File
Identifier: MS.3214
Scope and Contents
Also included are three songs: 'Ireland', 'Scotland', and 'England'. The date 1903 occurs on folio 9.
Dates:
1903.
Full score, arrangements and piano accompaniment for ‘Cauld kail het’, a selection of Scots songs by G W Crawford., 1914.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21917-21918
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.
Full score of ‘Cauld kail het’ by G W Crawford., 1914.
Item
Identifier: MS.21917
Scope and Contents
The score is dated ‘30/6/14’ at page 55.
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.
Full score of ‘Song of the Lonely Mountain Corrie’, being Scottish lyric pieces, opus 34, number 3., 1928.
File
Identifier: MS.22004
Scope and Contents
The work was completed in 1928 (folio 11).
The score is lacking two leaves between folios 4 and 5.
A press cutting depicting the view north-east from Ben Lawers is pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
1928.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
Gaelic and Irish songs and some of George Campbell Hay's poems set to music., 1936-1947.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26741-26743
Scope and Contents
George Campbell Hay was a self-taught piper and by 1940 had acquired an impressive repertoire of songs. In the late 1930's he began to compose settings both for his own and traditional poems. Some of the settings of the poems set to music are traditional.
Dates:
1936-1947.
Gaelic and Irish songs and some of George Campbell Hay's poems set to music., 1936-1939.
File
Identifier: MS.26741
Gaelic and Irish songs and some of George Campbell Hay's poems set to music., [Circa 1936]-1947.
File
Identifier: MS.26742