Collinson, Francis Montgomery, 1898-1984 (Scottish folk song collector, composer, director, and musicologist)

Scope and Contents Bundle of printed ballads on a variety of contemporary topics. Printers imprints centre on London, and generally in the area of Seven Dials.Most items are single folios, but some are small gatherings of pages. All are printed in black ink on neutral-coloured paper. On a few occasions, colour has been added by hand to add decoration to woodcuts.One page [titled 'Dreadful shipwreck in the Channel, of the Northfleet Emigrant Ship, Loss of over 300 lives'] has a note on...

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Correspondence received by Francis M. Collinson from many authors. Most correspondents offer new contributions for Collinson's folk song collection, and provide lyrics and/or sheet music along with an explanation of where and under what circumstances the song may be sung.

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The papers of Francis Montgomery Collinson consist of music scores, correspondence, and notebooks relating to folk songs from the mid-20th century. Also present in the collection are a number of 19th century printed ballads collected by Collinson. It is unclear whether he was the original collator, or if there was an earlier collector also at work.

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Scope and Contents Volume containing the manuscript minutes of the West Port/Bow Yearly Society, c 1825. The minutes and accounts are largely obscured, owing to the numerous clippings and exceprts pasted in that form a scrapbook of ballads.The broadside clippings, where identified, are all printed between 1831 and 1835. Most are printed in Edinburgh, with 7 printed in Reading, England.The collator of the scrapbook is unknown, but the names of some members of the Yearly Society are...