Scots Songs: Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, manuscripts, also various printed music , c 1910-1930
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Scots Songs: Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, manuscripts, also various printed music.
- Scots songs arranged Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, manuscripts, prepared for engraving, several sheets stamped ‘Boosey & Co., Ltd, London’.
- Several fragments of songs, some on the reverses of reused music paper.
- Several notes: ‘My heart is sair’, ‘John Anderson, my Jo’, ‘Tam Glen’ (attached: ‘Tam Glen’, loose page from Kennedy’s Handbook of Scottish Song, unknown edition.), ‘Last May a braw wooer’ (attached: ‘Last May a Braw Wooer’, loose page from Kennedy’s Handbook of Scottish Song, unknown edition.), ‘O Whistle an’ I’ll come to ye, my Lad’, ‘Ossianic Recitative – The Banners of the Feine’ (‘Brataichean na Feinne’ (‘In this key with harp improvisation accompaniment on G. B. D. F.’)), ‘Ossianic Lay’, ‘Braw, Braw Lads’, ‘Aye Wakin’ O’, ‘O speed Lord Nithsdale’, ‘Skye Boat Song’, ‘A Lonesome Lullaby’, ‘Willies gane to Melville Castle’, ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’, ‘The Braes o’ Yarrow’, ‘Barbara Alan’, ‘The Banks of Allan Water’, ‘The Boatie Rows’, ‘The Water-Kelpie’s Song’/‘Lied des Wasser-Kelpie’, ‘The Death Croon’/‘Der Todes-Gesang’, ‘Sealwoman’s Croon’/‘Gesang der Robbenfrau’, ‘Mermaid’s Croon – The Eriskay Lullaby’/‘Ein Wiegenlied aus Eriskay’, ‘The Silver Whistle’/‘Die Silberflöte’ (‘An Island Jacobite Song’), ‘Sea-Sounds’/‘Meeresklänge’.
- Leaflet for Seven Love Songs of Women by Burns, with photograph of an elderly Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, seated at her grand piano.
- A Fife Fisher Song and The Flowers o’ the Forest, arranged by Hugh S. Roberton for three female voices, The Collegiate Choir, London: Bayley & Ferguson, c 1917.
- The Shepherdess, arranged by Hugh S. Roberton for three female voices, Curwen’s edition, London: J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., c 1917.
- Farewell to Fiunary, arranged by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser for three female voices, The Kennedy-Fraser Collection of Scots Songs, Glasgow: Paterson Sons & Co. Ltd.
- Eileen Aroon, The Coulin, John O’Dwyer of the Glens, arranged for three female voices by Carl. G. Hardebeck, Irish Choir Album, first part, Belfast: C. G. Hardebeck, c 1910.
Dates
- Creation: c 1910-1930
Creator
- Fraser, Marjory Kennedy-, 1857-1930 (singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger) (Author, Person)
Language of Materials
English, Scottish Gaelic, Scots dilect, Irish Gaelic, German
Conditions Governing Access
Due to format, there is no current listening access to the recordings.
Extent
From the Box: 1 box
Previous reference
Gen. 278
Creator
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
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Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk