Fraser, Marjory Kennedy-, 1857-1930 (singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1857 - 1930
Biography
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger, was born in 1857. She was the daughter of singer David Kennedy (1825-1886). Her series of works The songs of the Hebrides published variously between 1909 and 1922 remain a useful resource for both Gaelic and English speakers. She collected songs chiefly in the Western Isles. Aware that the material collected would, in the concert performance, lose something of the original essence, she provided the songs with sensitive accompaniment. For service rendered to the cause of music in Scotland, an honorary degree of Doctor of Music was conferred on her in 1928. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser had also been awarded the C.B.E. She died on 22 November 1930.
Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:
Box Gen. 282, c 1855-1930
Box
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Marjory Kennedy-Fraser arrangements for piano, printed.Two arrangements, manuscripts.Various Scots tunes, piano duets, etc.Various music collections, Part 1 & 2.Kerr’s Collection of Merry Melodies, for the violin. Consisting of Scotch and Irish Reels and Jigs, Highland Schottisches, Country Dances, Hornpipes, Clog...
Dates:
c 1855-1930
‘Burns as a Scots Folksong Collector’, 10 December 1910-20 January 1911
File
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‘Burns as a Scots Folksong Collector’.
Burns lecture by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, [20 January 1911], filed together with ‘Scottish National Song Society [...] Lecture by Mrs Kennedy-Fraser on Burns as a Scots Folk-Song Collector’, Edinburgh, 20 January 1911, leaflet, multiple copies, lecture text often on reverses of discarded letters etc., including stencilled letter from James Kyd, Edinburgh District Board of Lunacy, Edinburgh, 9 December 1910, ‘To the Town Clerk,...
Dates:
10 December 1910-20 January 1911
‘Final Proofs, Vol. 1, 1908’, 1908
Item
Scope and Contents
‘Final Proofs, Vol. 1, 1908’. Proofs.
Dates:
1908
Four bundles of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser arrs. [arrangements] of songs, Part 1, 2, 3, & 4, c 1900-1946
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Scope and Contents
Four bundles of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser arrs. [arrangements] of songs, Part 1, 2, 3, & 4. Sheets prepared for engraving by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, music and text sheets generally held together song by song, in no particular order, manuscripts, including songs from the different Songs of the Hebrides, vols., some Scots songs, some arrangements for voice and harp (piano), marked as arranged by Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser, but mainly in Marjory...
Dates:
c 1900-1946
‘Hebridean Airs, Piano’, c 1900-1920
File
Scope and Contents
‘Hebridean Airs, Piano’.
Miscellaneous music sheets, in no particular order, including some corrected proofs from the different Songs of the Hebrides vols.
Copies of some of the separately published Hebridean songs.
Two pinned-together arrangements for piano by Marjory Kennedy Fraser: ‘Mull Fisher’s Love Song’,...
Dates:
c 1900-1920
‘Hebridean’, Part 1 & 2, c 1910-c 1930
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Scope and Contents
‘Hebridean’, Part 1 & 2.
Mainly printed music, some with pencilled in or attached alterations for harp. Part 1. Part 2. ‘Broken copies’.
Various notes, some on reverses of leaflets etc., including. ‘Mrs KennedyFraser [...] Gives Lessons in Pianoforte Tone Production, Technique, and Interpretation at her residence 95-a George Street, Edinburgh, and also visits...
Dates:
c 1910-c 1930
‘Kennedy-Fraser MSS. [manuscripts], D. 18377 [E60/25]’, c 1909-c 1911
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Scope and Contents
‘Kennedy-Fraser MSS. [manuscripts], D. 18377 [E60/25]’.
Note on Patrick Macdonald’s collection, manuscript.
Miscellaneous Songs of the Hebrides arrangements, mainly for voice and harp, several incomplete, manuscripts.
Numerous music notation sheets, mainly in pencil, some in ink, presumably Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s...
Dates:
c 1909-c 1911
Kenneth Macleod, manuscripts and letters, 23 December 1912-6 February 1928
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Kenneth Macleod, manuscripts and letters.
‘K. [Kenneth] Macleod. Tales & Songs’, [binder] containing various manuscripts, mainly by Kenneth Macleod, some notes by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser.
Proofs and manuscripts of Sea Tangle, mainly by Kenneth Macleod, some by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser.
Envelope, marked ‘Manuscripts mostly K. M. Kenneth Macleod’,...
Dates:
23 December 1912-6 February 1928
Letters from various Kennedy siblings, 2 March 1879-16 May 1880
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Letters from various Kennedy siblings, Italy, 1879-80, D.19228.
Four bundles of letters addressed to Kennedy family members, mostly in English, some in Italian, 127 letters, in ink, manuscripts: ‘Miscellaneous’, letters from Marjory, James, Robert, and Helen Kennedy, and from Pauline Vaneri Filippi, from 3 March 1879, Milan, until 16 May 1880, Milan, also some undated letters of same...
Dates:
2 March 1879-16 May 1880
‘Loose Leaf M.S.S. [manuscripts] of “Book”’, c 1929
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‘Loose Leaf M.S.S. [manuscripts] of “Book”’. Several loose draft sheets of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s autobiography, A Life of Song, incomplete, several smaller pieces of paper attached to the larger sheets, 26 x 20.5cm, 80 pages, manuscript & typescript.
Dates:
c 1929