Manuscript music book containing a collection of Highland bagpipe music [...] Alexander Wallace
Scope and Contents
The item is a bound manuscript book, with cloth-covered boards. The volume contains the former front cover with the bookseller's details: The Cowdenbeath Manuscript Music Book, Williamson, Music seller, Cowdenbeath. The cloth board, inside front cover, has a handwritten title-page: 'A collection of / highland bagpipe music, / containing strathspeys / marches quicksteps / laments hornpipes / highland schottisches, jigs / reels polkas waltzes and country dances / Arranged and Written by / Alexander Wallace.
The pages are numbered, and some tunes are noted as arranged by A.W., Alex. Wallace, or A. Wallace.
The volume contains some loose material too. One is stamped Kelty and Blairadam Pipe Band, B.L. Hamilton, Pipe major, while another has a printed slip attached, headed National Coal Board.
Dates
- Creation: 1880-1910
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Open to bona fide researchers, but please contact repository for details in advance of visit.
Biographical / Historical
Alexander Wallace signed his name to a volume - a manuscript music book containing a collection of Highland bagpipe music which he arranged and wrote, probably at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Extent
1 volume
Physical Location
CLX-A-1128
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased April 2012. Accession no: E2012.57
Processing Information
Catalogued by Graeme D. Eddie 11 December 2012
Creator
Subject
- Title
- Manuscript music book containing a collection of Highland bagpipe music [...] arranged and written by Alexander Wallace
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
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