Notebook: ‘Trios etc.', c 1900-1930
Scope and Contents
Notebook: ‘Trios etc’. Softbound, black, 16.5x19.5 cm, 46 (44+2) pages, stamped ‘T. Claxton, Music Dealer, 197 Yonge St., Toronto’, manuscript, contains several songs arranged by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, including 31 arrangements for three female voices (‘Fear a’ bhàta’, ‘Mo nìghean donn bhoidheach’ ‘Blackie?’, ‘Fionn airìdh’, ‘Gu ma slan a chi mi’, ‘Mairì Laghach’ ‘my own words’, ‘Maighdeann Mhuìle’, ‘Mo run geal dìleas’, ‘Moladh na Landaibh’, ‘Is toigh leam ’a ghaidhealtachd’, ‘Gabhaidh sinn an rathad mor’, ‘An Ribhinn Donn’, ‘Braw Braw Lads’, ‘I’m ower Young’, ‘The Boatie Rows’, ‘Kirkconnell Lea’, ‘Hey the Bonnie Breast Knots’, ‘Comin’ thro’ the Rye’, ‘The Broom o’ the Cowdenknowes’, ‘Thou hast left me ever Jamie’, ‘Afton Water’ ‘old tune’, ‘The Yellow Haired Laddie’, ‘Duanag a Chiobair’ ‘(Shepherds Lay)’, ‘My Love’s in Germany’, ‘Twa Bonnie Maidens’, ‘Gloomy Winter’, ‘Waly Waly’, ‘Soiridh’/‘Farewell’, ‘Leis an Lurgainn’/‘A Boat song’, ‘Am Fleasgach Donn’/‘The Brown haired lad’, ‘Faill ill o’ agus ho ro eìle’, ‘The Keel Row’), five duets (‘Broom o’ the Cowdenknowes’, ‘Ye Banks an Braes’, ‘He’s oer the Hills’, ‘The Blue Bells’, ‘When ye gang awa Jamie’), and various choruses.
Dates
- Creation: c 1900-1930
Creator
- Fraser, Marjory Kennedy-, 1857-1930 (singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger) (Author, Person)
Language of Materials
English, Scottish Gaelic and Scots dialect
Conditions Governing Access
Due to format, there is no current listening access to the recordings.
Extent
1 notebook
Previous reference
Gen. 279
Creator
Repository Details
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