EARLY MUSIC

Part 2: Music Manuscripts, 1500-1793, from the National Library of Scotland

Detailed Listing

REEL ONE

Adv. Ms. 5.1.15 The Scone Choir Book, first half of 16th century

The Scone Choir-book, containing masses and motets composed by Robert Carver and others. 1st half of 16th cent.

Contents list (compiled in 1950 by D W Stevens):

Adv. Ms. 5.2.11 Music Notebook, c1700
Music book containing psalm tunes set for four voices, and notes on music. 17th century.

Adv. Ms. 5.2.14 Leyden Song book, c1639
The Leyden music book, containing songs with words, dance tunes, and psalm tunes. 1639. There is a note by John Leyden inside the front cover, dated Edinburgh, 5 March, 1800, stating that the manuscript was formerly owned by the Reverend Mr Cranston of Jedburgh, whose library was sold in 1788. It was formerly owned by a schoolmaster from the Border. “It is still very common for Parochial school-masters and teachers of music to write out such collections for their own use.” He also notes that it was loaned to Alexander Campbell in 1795 when he was writing his Introduction to Scottish Poetry.

Adv. Ms. 5.2.15 Skene Ms, c1615-1635
The Skene MS., containing tunes, chiefly Scottish, arranged for the lute, partly written by John Skene of Hallyards. 1615-35.

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Adv. Ms. 5.2.16 Notebook on music theory, c1754
Treatises on music, with examples of psalm tunes. 17th and 18th cent.

Adv. Ms. 5.2.17 Agnes Hume’s Music Book, c1704
Agnes Hume’s music book, containing song tunes (some with words), and psalm tunes. 1704.

Adv. Ms. 5.2.18 Lute Book of Robert Gordon of Straloch (1839 copy of original of 1627-29, now lost)
Transcript by George Farquhar Graham, 1847, of parts of Robert Gordon of Straloch’s lute book. 1627-9. The introduction at the front notes that the following pages of lute tablature were transcribed by Graham in 1839 from the Lute-Book of Sir Robert Gordon of Straloch in Aberdeenshire. “This curious book was sent to me by David Laing, Esquire, it having been lent to him by the late Mr James Chalmers of London, with full permission to copy from it and translate and publish. I translated the whole of it, and also transcribed exactly, from the original, such of the pieces of music as I thought most important, omitting a number of Dance Tunes, as will be seen from the List of Contents which I give below.”

The Introduction asserts that the manuscript was given in 1781 by Dr George Skene, Professor of Humanity and Philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen, to Dr Charles Burney, from whom James Chalmers acquired it. It passed into unknown hands following Chalmers’ death. “The original Straloch MS., one of the oldest and most valuable Scotish Musical MSS known to exist, may therefore be considered as lost to Scotland.”

There is also a key to the tablature. See also MS.349 (p28).

The contents are as follows (using original spellings):

Page Title

1:The buffens
1:Sheepheard saw thou not.
2:Canaries.
2:The day dawns.
4:A Port.
5:Port Preist .
6:The old man.
6:I long for the wedding.
7:Gray Steel.
8:Put on thy sark [?] on Monday.
8:Brail de Poictou.
11:The Canarias.
12:Ostende.
14:God be with thee Geordie.
15:Shoes rare and good in all. Lilt. Ladie An Gordoun.
16:A dance. grein greus ye rasses.
16:Hunters Careire.
17:It’s a wonder to see.
18:An thou were myn own thing.
19:A Port. Port Jean Linsay.
20:A Port.:Port Rosie Dall.
21:A Lilt. Lady Laudian’s Lilt.
22:Wo betyd thy waerie bodie.
23:A Port.
24:Have over the water.
26:I long for thy virginitie.
26:Gallua Tom.
27:I kist her while she blusht.
27:Whip my toudie.
28:Hench me Malie Gray.

Adv. Ms. 5.2.19 The Leyden Lyra-Viol Book (19th century copy of original of 1690)

Transcript by George Farquhar Graham, c1850, of the tunes in tablature in John Leyden’s lyra-viol book. Late 17th cent. In the Introduction at the front of the manuscript, Graham notes that the original manuscript was loaned to him in 1844 by his friend, Patrick Maxwell of Edinburgh, “that I might examine it, and translate and transcribe it, if I pleased: I did transcribe the whole of it that was written in Tablature for the Lyra-Viol … the rest of it contained some Tunes written clumsily in modern notation, and of no importance,...” It is stated that John Leyden passed the book to his brother, a farmer in Roxburghshire, and it was then passed to James Telfer, Schoolmaster at Saughtrees, Liddesdale, who loaned it to Maxwell.

An original note by Dr Leyden, and the subjects of some of the songs, date the original volume to the period 1690-1710.

The contents are as follows (using original spellings):

No Title

1:When the King enjoys his own.
2:King James march to Ireland.
3:The old man’s wish.
4:A march.
5:Killie Crankie.
6:Saraband.
7:A jigg.
8:Corant.:
9:Over the mure [?] to Maggie
10:A Minivet.
11:A French march
12:My dearie if thou dye.
13:Robin and Jannet.
14:Money in both yr pockets.
15:The Ladys Goune
16:Bonie Nanie.
17-18:(missing)
19:The Duke of Lorain’s March.
20:Maggie I must love the. [thee]
21:Where Hellen lays.
22:The Dance of it.
23:Almon.:[Allemande]
24:Corrant.
25:Strick upon a Strogin.
26:Hallo Even.
27:Mackbeth.
28:Katharine Ogie.
29:What shall I do to show.
30:Happie man is hee.
31:New hilland ladie. [highland laddie?]
32:If love’s a sweet passion.
33:Celia that I once was blest.
34:When cold storms is past.
35:Woman’s work will never be done.
36:The prince of Walles welcome to ye world.
37:The seven Bishops.
38:McLeans Scots mesure.
39:Jocke ye laird’s Brother.
40:Vallent Jockie.
41:The Prince of Walles March.
42:Ane Ayer.
43:No scornfull Beauty.
44:Young Phaon.
45:Bonnie Lassie.
46:Jenny I told you.
47:The Queens Almon.
48:Almon.
49:The Gilliflower.
50:The Bony Brow.
51:The New Kirk Gabell.
52:Saraband
53:Allmon.
54:Saraband.
55:The Nightingall.
56:Jockie went to the wood.
57:Haill to the myrtle shade.
58:Adieu to ye folles and pleasures of love.
59:Montroses Lynes.
60:Gather your rose buds.
61:Come love lets walk.
62:Joy to ye person.
63:Allmon.
64:Saraband.
65:Haill Great Sr.
66:Why are myne eyes.
67:The water of Boyne.
68:Sweet Willie.
69:Bony roaring Willie.
70:Lillebolero.
71:A Spanish jigg.
72:O ye bonny Christ Church Bells.: [Aldrich]
73:No charmes above her.
74:Katharine Ogie.
75:Twide Syde. [Tweed side]
76:A Minive. [minuet]
77:When she came ben.

78:I cannot wine at her.
79:A Horn Pyp. [Hornpipe]
80:The King’s health in a mugg.
81:Full fa’ my eyes.

“NB The numbering of the tunes stops here at 81 in the Leyden MS. Then follow “A Minuet” and “Hilland Ladie” ….”

Adv. Ms. 5.2.20 Music for flute, early 18th century:

Music book containing minuets, Scottish tunes, and pieces by Handel and Italian composers. Early 19th cent.

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Adv. Ms. 5.2.21 Music Book of George Skene, c1715

George Skene’s music book, containing pipe music, minuets, a gavotte by Handel, and other tunes, mostly Scottish. 1715-17.

Adv. Ms. 5.2.22 Music for flute, late 18th century

Music book containing pipe music, minuets, a setting for strings and flutes, and other tunes, mostly Scottish. 18th century.

Adv. Ms. 5.2.23 Music for keyboard, 1739

Music for the harpsichord, including minuets by Handel and others, and Scottish tunes. 1739.

Adv. Ms. 5.2.24 Music for violin and spinet, mid 18th century

Dance music for the pipes and for the spinet, including reels and minuets. 18th century.

Adv. Ms. 5.2.25 Music for violin and spinet, late 18th century

Music book containing pipe music, a setting for strings and flutes, minuets, reels and other dance music. Late 18th cent.

The contents are as follows:

Page:Title Composer

1:John Anderson my Joe Disblair
5:Willie was a wanton Wagg Disblair
7:Duke of Athol’s rant Disblair
8:Marion Helen Disblair
9:Was my heart yr we should sunder Mr Oswald
10:- Disblair
11:Up Tails a Disblair
12:The Long Sadle Disblair
14:Clout the Cauldron Disblair
15:Wow Minnie what shall I doe Disblair
17:Logan Water -
18:The birks of Abergeldy -
19:The last time I came over the moor -
20:Donald Cooper -
21:An the Kirk would let me be Disblair
22:Row me on a ley rigg -
24:Throw the wood Ladie
:[with] Willie Winkies testament following it Disblair
25:Hail and sound the company -

Adv. Ms. 23.1.20:Music Book of M Carter, c1719-1750

English song and dance tunes, with words 18th cent.

Adv. Ms. 81.9.12:Music Book, late 17th century - early 18th century

Song tunes, with words. 18 cent.

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MS. 349 The Straloch Lute Book, 1627-1629

STRALOCH MANUSCRIPT. Extracts from the MS. lute-book of Robert Gordon of Straloch, 1627-9 (now lost), made by George Farquhar Graham, 1845. Graham transcribed the other copy in the National library (Adv. MS. 5.2.18) (see p21, where details of provenance are given). A brief introduction in this volume claims that the original volume was “the oldest known MS containing Scottish Airs.” Inserted is a letter of John Muir Wood, the distinguished music publisher and authority on Scottish music (he wrote for Sir George Grove on the subject in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians), dated 1884 (f. 4), correcting Graham’s scale in Adv. MS 5.2.18. Wood notes: “I have copied off some of the airs which I thought interesting; and have marked the tuning of the instrument which is in fact that of a Spanish Guitar, or equivalent intervals, for the absolute pitches not known - In the copy of the MS possessed by the Advocates Library there is a scale of the instrument given, but it is not correct, and does not agree with the translation of two or three of the tunes made by Mr G F Graham and which I possess - it is B E A C E G, reckoning upwards; that which I have used starts from A but perhaps G would be better, thus G C F A D G - which gives one major 3d - the other intervals being 4ths…”

From the library of William Cowan, Edinburgh.
ii+15ff. 9in.x13? in. Bought, 1929. Reid Fund.

MS. 633 Songs, Airs, etc, c1759

MUSIC. Songs, airs from oratorios, minuets, etc., written out at the end of imperfect copy of Lessons on the practice of singing, with an addition of the church tunes, in four parts, and a collection of hymns; canons, airs and catches, for the improvement of beginners, by Cornforth Gilson, Teacher of Music in Edinburgh, 1759.

On the first end-paper and on the fly-leaves (ff. I, ii) there are quotations of poetry about music. The date of the MS. Is probably not much later than the date of publication of the book. Includes “Call forth the reckoning and let us be gone…” set to music by H Purcell.

ii ff.+ 64 pp. 6? in.x7½ in. Part of the collection of printed books bequeathed by William Cowan, Edinburgh, 1929.

MS. 654 Choice Psalms for 3 voices by Henry & William Lawes
(18th century transcript of original of 1648)

“CHOICE PSALMS for 3 voices by Henry and William Lawes.
With divers Elegies by several friends on the death of William Lawes and Nine Canons by Willm. Lawes. Scored from the Original Parts printed at London 1648.” Eighteenth-century transcript. Armorial book-plate of Thomas Bever, LL.D., Fellow of All Soul’s College, 1783.

ii+110 ff. 9¼ .x11½in. Part of the collection of printed books (Cwn. 669) bequeathed by William Cowan, Edinburgh, 1929. MS. 808 Violin Music, 1768

VIOLIN MUSIC. “A Collection of the Best and Most Favourite Tunes For the Violin. In four Parts. Also an Introduction with Directions for Playing the Violin. Perth. Collected and Transcribed by James Gillespie,” 1768. The book is divided into: airs and marches, Scots tunes, minuets, and hornpipes, jigs, and reels. For a description, see Henry George Farmer, “An Old Scottish Violin Tutor,” in Proc. Soc. Ant Scot., vol. lxv (1931), p.398.

It includes 57 minuets, 107 hornpipes, jiggs and reels, 29 airs and marches, and 65 Scots tunes. These are listed in a seven page index at the front of the volume (see sample page on p11 of this guide). It is not possible to reproduce this in its entirety here, but sample entries include:

32:Air by Handel
31:Britania
110:Campells are coming Oho
69:Carrick Fergus
22:Corrent by Correlli
36:Duncan Gray
29:Gavot by Handle
96:Greensleeves
29:Hearts of Oak
39:Highland Ladie
48:Jack and his Trousers on
76:Lady Banks Minuet
86:Lulleys Minuet
21, 109:O’er the moor among the hedder
64:Roring Willie
39:The yellow hair’d ladie
44:The Lillies of France
59:The Flowers of the Forest
38:The Coaliers daughter
98:Unfortunate Jock
74:Virginia minuet
120:Welcome home my Dearie
102:Y’ell ay be welcome back

ii+55ff. Quarto. Bought, 1932. Reid Fund.
MS. 1667 The Cuming Music Ms, 1723
(the first known collection of Scottish music for the
violin)

CUMING MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT. The first known collection of Scottish music for the violin. It bears the inscriptions “Patrick Cuming his Book Edinburgh 1723“ and “Thomas Cuming His Book.” Several of the airs cannot be traced; several occur in different forms in printed collections. The airs include some reels and minuets. The volume is mentioned in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, under “Scottish Music.”

ii ff.+ 70pp. Oblong octavo, 8x4in. Bought, 1936. Reid Fund.

MS. 1679 The McArthur Ms of Pipe Music, 18th century

PIPE MUSIC.

Angus Macarthur’s MS of piobaireachd music, XVIII cent. This is the earliest known MS. of pipe-music in which modern staff, notation is used. It is known as the Highland Society of London’s MS, and is described in Book One (1925) of the Piobaireachd Society’s publications (p.ii,, no 2). Most of the tunes in the settings given in this MS. have been published, either in Angus MacKay’s Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd, Edinburgh, 1838, or subsequently, by the Piobaireachd Society (f. iii v.).

Charles Bannatyne has made a brief index of the pieces at the front, based on Angus Mackay’s notes:

1:You’re drunk, you’d better sleep
2:King James the Sixth’s Lament
3:King James Salute
4:Beinn na ?
5:The Bells of Perth
6:Hector MacLean’s warning
7:MacVeil of Barra’s March
8:the Battle of the Red Hill
9:The MacDonalds Salute
10:The Highland Society of Scotland’s Salute
11:Catherine’s Salute (The Frazer’s gathering)
12:Abercairney’s (?) Salute
13:Albainn Bheadarach
14:MacLean’s march
15:The Brother’s Lament
16:Lord MacDonald’s Lament
17:The Daughter’s Lament
18:-
19:Donald Dugal MacKay’s Lament
20:A Lament
21:The Bard’s Lament
22:The Macbrai’s (?) March
23:Sir James MacDonald’s Lament
24:Lady MacDonald’s Lament
25:Mackenzie of Fairloch’s Lament
26:The Young Laird of Dungallow
27:Lady Margaret MacDonald’s Salute
28:the Laird of Annapool’s Lament
29:The MacDougall’s Gathering
30:You’re welcome, Ewen!

Bannatyne notes that the manuscript was “the property of Michael Macfarlane, a native (Gaelic speaking) of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire, who was piper to two Dukes of Hamilton in Arran. He died in 1876. He was a pupil of Angus MacKay’s & had in his possession all MacKay’s MSS….”

xii + 56 + several blank ff. Folio and under. Deposited by the Piobaireachd Society, 1936.

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MS. 1905 Antiphoner, late 16th century

ANTIPHONER, probably of the late sixteenth century. There is a note on the inside of the front cover signed by Sir Edward Hoby, who was a member of the Cadiz expedition of 1596: ‘ ‘Este libro era de Sto. Jago de Cadiz de los de la Compania de Jesus, y tomado en el uiage en el uiage de la armada Jnglesa alla 1596’.
In addition to Hoby’s note there is the signature, ‘Peter Norris, 1602’ (f.1).
It contains:
(i) Proper chants for Maundy Thursday (f. iv.), Good Friday (f. 25), Holy Saturday (f. 48v.), Easter Sunday (f.69).
(ii) Antiphons at the Benedictus and Magnificat for Easter Monday (f. 77v.)
and Tuesday (f. 79v.).
(iii) Three proses. ‘In die resurrectionis et per octava aditur prosa: Victime paschali laudes.’ The sixth strophe is lacking (f. 8ov.). ‘In die sancto penthecostes: Veni sancta spiritus.’ The eighth and ninth strophes are lacking (f82v). ‘Insolemn[i]tate corporis christi dicitur prosa: Lauda sion.’ Only strophes 1 and 2 and the first halves of 3 and 5 are given (f. 85).

Account, 1782, p.79.
Square notation on a five-lined stave; bar lines at irregular but frequent intervals. Initials in red, blue, and purple, with flourishes, scrolls, and arabesque panels; other initials made up of interlacing pen-strokes.

Vellum. 87 ff. Collation:1-118 (-118).. 580 x 395mm. Bound in wooden boards covered with leather and studded with bosses of brass.

MS. 1906 Antiphoner, late 16th century

ANTIPHONER, probably of the late sixteenth century with later additions. Square notation on a four-lined stave. The manuscript has been badly mutilated: almost every initial has been cut out.

Vellum (ff. 61-2, 64 paper). 64 ff. 590 x 450 mm. Bound in wooden boards covered with leather and studded with bosses of brass.

MS. 1907 Gradual, late 16th century

GRADUAL. Two folios, numbered ccxlii and ccxlix, probably from a late sixteenth-century gradual.

On f. ccxlii are chants for the sixth Sunday after Pentecost: Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory, Communion; and the beginning of the Introit for the seventh Sunday after Pentecost. On f. ccxlix are the concluding words of the Communion for the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, and the Introit and Gradual of the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost.

Square notation on a five-lined stave; bar lines at irregular intervals. Blue and red initials with flourishes.
Vellum. 2 ff. 540x400mm.
MSS. 2084-2085:A Collection of Scottish Airs, 1740:

‘A COLLECTION OF SCOTCH AIRS, with the latest variations. Written for the use of Walter McFarlan of that Ilk by David Young, W[riting] M[aster] in Ednr.’, labelled ‘ Vol.II’ and ‘Vol.III’, 1740, n.d. Each volume contains an index at the beginning. Account, 1784, p.61.
xff.+288pp.;x ff.+286 pp. Folio.

REEL SIX
MS. 2086 Scottish Airs, 18th century

SCOTTISH MUSIC. A volume of airs, Lowland and Highland, of songs, dances, a pibroch, etc., most of which are published in James Oswald’s Caledonian Pocket Companion, Lond., n.d. There are notes by Capt. Riddell at f.i, an index at p. 120, and a note by John Graham Dalyell, 1838, on the end cover. Arch. Scot.,vol. iii, App., p 52.

It includes:
1:Dainty Davie Lady
4:Pibroch
9:Will you go to Flanders
14:Up in the morning early
17:Black Jock
24:Reel of Tulloch
37:Finlayston House
39:Banks of Inverarry
66:Sailors of Selkirk
82:Gilly Cranky
89:Auld Lang Syne
92:Bonny Dundee
93:The Campbell’s are coming
95:Etrich Banks
96:Duncan Gray
104:Sleepy Body
106:O Dear Minnie

If. + 120 pp. Oblong octavo.
MSS. 2833-2834:Book of English and Scottish tunes, 1702 and notes

2833. Book of English and Scottish tunes, composed by known authors and traditional. It contains the names of James Thomson, 1702, and John Daniel.
For some of the tunes this appears to be the earliest manuscript.

It includes:

Page Title (original spellings)

1:Emperor’s March
2:I love my Love in Secret
3:Minuet
4:Richmond Ball
5:Come Sweet Lass
6:Happy Groves
8:Geld him lasses
9:Irish Air
10:Trumpet tune & Trumpet by Mr Shore
12:What shall I doe to show [how much I love her] by Henry Purcell
:and John Dryden
13:French Minuit
14:The Lady Blank O
14:The Birks of Aberrgeldie
15:Girdlen Geordy
16:Trumpet Tune & Minuit
17:When ye Cold Winter nights were frozen
17:The Minister’s Rant
18:Green Sleeves
20:Scots tune
21 Young I am [and unskilled] by John Eccles and John Dryden
21:I have my fancie fixed on her
22:The Jolly Breese by John Eccles
23:The Lasses of Edinburgh
24 The Grey Eye’d Morn, possibly by Jeremiah Clark
24:Honie wilt thou take it
25:Ayr
26:The Pinken Dureeken Wives of Carilel
27:Madam Lubblimes
28:I’d make you fain to follow me
29:Minuit
30:The well Buked Ballap
30:Jigg
31:My daughter Shilo
31:Bass minuit
32:Where should a Good-man Lye in the Cold nights in Winter
32:Jumping John
33:The Laird’s Good Brother
33:The Banks of Yaro
34:Well Danc’d Robin
34:Pass by Minuit
35:Allin Water
36:the Dozen
37:Mary Harvey at the Guard
37:The Three Sheeps Skinns
38:Stay and take your Breeks with you
38:The Countrymans Dance
39:Horne pipe
39:Jameca [Jamaica]
40:Killie Krankie
46:A Minuett
48:A Jigg
50:A Minuett
:“Florishes in all keys by Tho Dean”
66:A Jigg, Aire and Round
67:A Jigg and an Aire
68:Minuet
78:Ayres for two viols by Mr Jo: Jenkin
110:For two violins
113:The Bell Minuett
114:Scotch tune
143:Minuett Round O (upside down)
144:March (upside down)

ii. ff. +144 pp. Oblong octavo.

2834. A list of the tunes, with remarks, by Davidson Cook, a previous owner of the manuscript, 1937.

5 pp. Folio.
Both bought, 1937. Reid Fund.
MS. 2906 Music Album, 1793

Music-album, apparently form the same collection, inscriber inside the front cover, ‘Sold by Corri and Coy, Music Sellers to her Majesty, Edinr.’, and ‘Miss C. Murray, Jany. 3d., 1793’. It contains miscellaneous music, including several Scottish songs and dances. Rule Britannia is at f.9.
ii+40 ff. Oblong folio.

MS. 3296 Margaret Sinkler’s Music Book, 1710
MS. 3297 Margaret Sinkler’s Music Book, 1710 - notes

Both manuscripts (and 3298 which follows) are part of the Glen Collection of Scottish Music. These are kept with the rest of the collection in the Department of Printed Books; the reference ‘Glen’ indicates the pressmark, and should be given in applying for a manuscript.
Presented, 1927, by Lady Dorethea Ruggles-Brise, in memory of her brother, Major Lord George Stewart Murray, Black Watch, killed in action in France in 1914.

3296. Margaret Sinkler’s music-book. A collection of airs, mainly Scottish. The volume is in two parts, one running from f1 to f57, the other backwards from f69 to f58. Between the two parts several leaves have been cut out. On f69v is the inscription, ‘Margaret Sinkler aught this musick book, written by Andrew Adam at Glasgow, October, the 31 day, 1710’. Other owners were George Kincaid, Glasgow, 1717 (ff. ivv., i,), and Dr. George Kincaid Pitcairn, Edinburgh, 1829 (ff69v,. and elsewhere). The name of Mrs. Anne Crookshank or Crookshanks also occurs (f. 1). (Glen 143(i).)
iv+69 ff. Oblong octavo.

3297. Notes on the airs in Margaret Sinkler’s music-book, by lady Dorethea Ruggles-Brise, who indicates in what collections, if any, they first appeared. (Glen 143(ii).)
9 ff. Quarto.

The contents of MS.3296 are as follows:

Item:Title (original spellings)

1-8:Minuets
9:When the King enjoys his own
10:Coalliers daughter
11:Allan Water
12:An Irish tune
13:Grey Morning
14:McFarsances testament
15:Roal yr rump among you
16:Air in C
17:The horsmans port
18:My plaid away [over the hills and far away]
19:Deels dozen
20:Love’s a sweet passion by Henry Purcell
21:King James March
22:Within a furlong of Edinburgh by Henry Purcell
23:Drunken wives of Carlyle
24:Emperor’s March
25:Gallways Lament
26:Milking Peall
27:Sweet Pudding
28:Jingiling Gordy
29:The Bonny Bracket Lassie
30:Goodnight
31:I am King and Prince of drunkards
32:Maggie I must love thee
33-34:Minuets
35:When she cam ben
36:Owin at her
37:Jockie went to the wood
38:Ore the muir to Maggie
39:Green Sleivs and pudding pyes
40:Joly bris
41 In d Minor
42:In F
43:Dunnigalls Rant
44:Lennox love to bloater
45:Berwick Johnny
46:The prince of Wall’s welcome to ye world
47:Lasses of Edinburgh
48:A hornpipe
49:I’ll gar ye be fain to follow me
50:O Minie
51:Auld Lang Syne
52:Tail toddle
53:Saw ye nae my Peggy

Second Part
1:Emperor’s march
2:Love is the cause of my mourning
3:I love my love in secret
4:Tadanolas Ground (?)
5:Quuensburys Scots Measure
6:Stirr her up and had her going
7:Northland Ladie
8-9:Minuets
10:Spanish jig
11:Ore the Mure to Maggie
12:Let the Soldiers rejoice by Henry Purcell
13:I lov’d a hansome lady
14:I would have my goune made
15:Dainty Davie
16:Hellen Hooms Scots Measure
17:Hallow Euen
18-19:A jigg
20-21:Minuets
22:Highland Kings rant
23:Malsleys Scots Measure
24:The Ramble
25:Highland Ladie
26:A March
27:Saraband
28:Bannocks of Bear Meal
29:Cock up thy beaver
30:State and ambition
31:No charms above her
32:Come sweet lass
33:Birks of Ebergeldie
34:She roase and let m’in
35:Lady Howards Ayre
36:Haill Great Sr
37:minuet
38:McKenzie’s Scots Measure
39:To your Arms by Henry Purcell
40:Brittain…
41:Captain Ramsay’s Scots Measure
42:Thomas Tollites Ground
43:John come kiss me now
44 New Killikrankie
45:anon
46:Minuet
47:Come love lets walk:
48:Minuet in C
49:Air in D minor
50:Minuet in G
51:Air

REEL SEVEN

MS. 3298 The Gairdyn Ms, c1710-1735

The Gairdyn manuscript, a collection of songs, marches, minuets, sarabands, country dances, etc. Of most tunes, only a few bars are given. A note of some of the contents is given on f. iiiv., and there is a list of airs on f. ivv.

On f. iv are verses beginning ’Than what shall be done with this traitor in grain’ and ‘When fierce Renegado cam first to the toun’. A short ‘Inventar of household plenishing’ appears on f. 42v. The dates 1710, 1729, nd 1735 occur (ff 40, 40v., 51), and the names John Gairdyn (f. ivv.), James Steuart, f. 42v.), and ‘Mr. Alexr. Naughton, merchant in Rotterdam’ (f.iii).

According to a note on f. iv the volume was owned by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and given by him to John Muir Wood in 1848. (Glen 37.)
iv +15 ff. Oblong octavo.

MS. 3581 Miscellaneous volume.
We reproduce (ii) only (f3) - ‘Ann Briges’ -
late 17th century - early 18th century

The volume contains single letters and small collections presented by various donors, 1940-1947.

(ii) Songs: ‘How nowe, good fellow, what all a mort’ (with music); ‘Noe man Love’s firery passion can approve’ (with music); and ‘From the fair Lavenian shore’. Inscribed, ‘Ann Briges’. (f3).
Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.

[See p49 of this guide for an illustration].
Presented, 1945, by H.G. Farmer, Mus. Doc., Bearsden.

MS. 3709 Hymns, with tunes, late 18th century

Hymns, with tunes, in an album, apparently of the late eighteenth century.

At the end is an extensive 13pp index of authors, composers, and tunes, and one of first lines. (Cwn. 1026.)
vi+307 ff. Octavo.

REEL EIGHT

MS. 5448 Lady Anne Ker’s Song Book, c1630

Song book, compiled ca. 1630. The contents are as follows:
(i) Melody, bass, and words of twenty-four songs (ff. 1-15v.), with one instrumental piece (f. 4v.). Many of the songs are by the English lutenist song writers of the early 17th century. The Scottish songs in the collection were mostly well-known at the period, and many are represented in other contemporary manuscript sources, notably MS.9450 (Robert Edward’s commonplace book), Adv.Ms.5.2.14 (William Stirling’s cantus part book), and Thomas Wode’s part books. The items which have been identified are listed at the end of the volume.
(ii) Fifteen common psalm tunes, church tune and bass; all appear in the psalter of 1635 (ff.16-19v.).
(iii) Notes on musical theory (ff.29v.-30v.).
The manuscript belonged to Robert Ker of Ferniehurst (later 4th Lord Jedburgh) whose name appears inside the front cover, with the date 1669, the year in which he bought Ferniehurst from William Ker, 3rd Earl of Lothian. The initials L.A.K on the binding may stand for Lady Ann Ker, the Earl’s wife.
30 ff. Oblong octavo. Vellum gold tooled binding.

MS. 5449 Book of dance tunes, c1765

Book of dance tunes, ca. 1765, mostly arranged for the English guitar or the cittern, but with some for keyboard (ff. 38-44v.), consisting, along with some Scots tunes, of minuets, gavottes, marches, etc., by composers of the day including Arne, Corelli, Felton, Handel and Hasse.
45 ff. Oblong quarto.

MS. 5777 66 pieces for violin, mainly dances, c1680

Sixty-six pieces for violin (two in two parts), mostly dances, with a further seven pieces in tablature (apparently for a three-stringed instrument), ca. 1680. Composers named are J[ohn] Bannister (whose allemande, courante, and contredanse on ff.2v-3v. also appear in MS.9454, ff. 10v.-11v), [Matthew] Locke, [Raphael] Courtville, Clayton, [Louis] Grabu, Baptista [?Lully], [Robert] Smith, and [John] Jenkins.
Parts of this manuscript (e.g., ff. 2v.-4) appear to be in the same hand as MS.9454.
71 ff. Oblong octavo.
MS. 5778 Lessens for ye Violin, c1680

‘Lessones for ye Violin’, being a collection of 28 pieces for violin, including dances, marches, a set of variations (also in MSS,9455-7, ff. 1v.-3), and Scots airs, ca. 1680. A portion bas been partly chewed by mice (ff. 14-20), but half the table of contents remains (f.20), and the name Archibald Murray (f.20v.). The bourrée on f.8 is also found in .MS.9454, f.12, and the anonymous prelude on inverted ff.11v-12 is that attributed in MS.9454, ff.3v.-4 to [Davis] Mell.
20 ff. Oblong octavo.

MS. 5779 Music miscellany, c1720

Miscellaneous musical collection, c1720. The contents are: two minuets and a march in the trumpet style; ‘Take head Bellinda’, an aria by John Weldon in a version apparently by the composer for the flute; and three arias with violin obligato entitled ‘Thus with thrust [sic] my soul expiring’(anonymous), ‘Lusinga del mio core’ (from the opera ‘Hydaspes’ by Franceso Mancini, c1711), and ‘Too lovely cruel fair’ (from the opera ‘Pyrrhus and Demetrius’ by Nicolo Franceso Haym, c1715).
9 ff. Oblong octavo.

MS. 5779A-C 18th century French songs with music

‘Recueil de Vaudevilles Gaillards.’ An eighteenth-century collection of French songs, with music. There is an index of first lines at the end of each of the three volumes.
iv+93ff.; iv+102 ff.; iv+94 ff. Octavo.

MS. 5780 18th century singing exercises

‘Solfeggi del Sig[nor]e Gius[epp]e St Martini’. Eighteenth-century singing exercises.
ii+10 ff. Oblong quarto.

MS. 5781 Music Book, c1814

Music book, ca. 1814, containing dances, songs, and hymns, in various hands, lettered on the front board ‘Countess Talbot’, i.e.Frances Tomasine Talbot, wife of 2nd Earl Talbot and grandmother of the 8th marchioness of Lothian.
111 ff. Oblong quarto.

MS. 6301 Handel songs and choruses arranged for keyboard,
18th century

HANDEL. Volume containing 20 songs and choruses 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, 18th century. The pieces are divided into five larger groups numbered 48 to 52, and must at one time have been part of a larger collection. They are written in a professional hand, and most of them include a note of performance time. The music begins on f.7, the preceding folios containing Balfour Handel Collection and is numbered B.H. Add 48.
53 ff. Oblong folio.

Presented, 1950, by Cecil Hopkinson, London.

REEL NINE

The Panmure Music Books

Comprising 30 volumes: 12 from before 1675 containing Scottish and English music, and French lute music; 11 volumes of French music brought to Scotland by James and Harie Maule between 1678 and 1683; 6 volumes of opera scores and parts acquired by James Maule when in exile in Italy after the 1715 rising; and a collection of Scottish dances.

9447-9476. The Panmure Music Books.
These volumes were gathered together by Lady Jean Campbell (later 2nd Countess of Panmure) and her sons James Maule, 4th Earl of Panmure, and Harie Maule. They were subsequently preserved by the Earls of Dalhousie, descendants of Harie Maule.
Mss 9447-58 consist of Scottish and English music, and French lute music, all dated before 1675.
Mss 9459-69 consist of French music brought to Scotland by James and Harie Maule after their visits to France between 1678 and 1683.
Mss 9470-75 are opera scores and parts acquired by James Maule when in exile in Italy after the 1715 rising.
Ms 9476 dates from the 19th century.
MS. 9447-9450 Scottish and English music, and French lute music,
before 1675

Manuscript:Extent (ff):Featured composers

9447 166 Duncan Burnett, William Kinloch, Edward Johnson, William Byrd
9448 33 William Byrd, John Bull, John Dowland, Clement Matchett
9449 46 + blanks:Orlando Gibbons?
9450 79 Giovanni Domenici da Nola…

REEL TEN

MS. 9451-9458 Scottish and English music, and French lute music,
before 1675

9451 21 Gautier le vieux, Gautier d’Angleterre, Vincent, Pinel, Bouvier
9452 59 René Mésangeau
9453 4 Christopher Simpson?
9454 41 Davis Mell, Mr Clayton, Mr Baptist (Lully?)
9455 47 Christopher Simpson, John Jenkins
9456 39 Christopher Simpson, John Jenkins
9457 43 Christopher Simpson, John Jenkins
9458 52

REEL ELEVEN

MS. 9459-9460: French music brought to Scotland 1678 -1683

9459 188 Lully
9460 194 Lully

REEL TWELVE

MS. 9461-9463 French music brought to Scotland 1678 -1683

9461 188 Lully
9462 94 Lully
9463 51 Lully

REEL THIRTEEN

The Panmure Music Books

MS. 9464-9469 French music brought to Scotland 1678 - 1683

Manuscript:Extent (ff):Featured composers

9464 117 Nicola Matteis Napolitano
9465 48 Marin Marais
9466 48 Marin Marais
9467 48 Marin Marais
9468 19 de Ste Colombe
9469 40 de Ste Colombe

REEL FOURTEEN
MS. 9470-9475 Opera scores and parts acquired in Italy after the
1715 rising

9470 30 Italian opera arias: Albinoni, Aresti…
9471 40 Italian opera arias: Bononcini, Calvi, Gasperini, Mariani…
9472 41 Italian opera arias: Perti, Prediera and Sabatini
9473 15
9474 10
9475 10

MS. 9476 Scottish music (dances)

9476 12 Scottish music (dances)

MS. 9477 Alexander Macalman’s Music Book, c1643

Alexander Macalman’s Music Book. Psalm tunes and other songs, c1643, compiled by Edward Miller, Director of the Chapel Royal of Scotland.:
76ff.

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