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Archive of Sheena Lillian Tennant Kendall
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2055
Content Description
This fonds consists of autograph sheet music, printed music sheets, notebooks, and diaries of Sheena Lillian Tennant Kendall, "one of the first women composers" who studied under the famous Parisian composer and music teacher Nadia Boulanger. Most items are related to Kendall's music and her music- and theatre-related social activities in Munich and in London, but there are also three diaries describing her trip to India in 1912-1913.
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Dates:
1902-1933
Book, medals, and printed ephemera relating to Helen Patuffa Hood and Marjory Kennedy Fraser
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1978
Content Description
This collection includes a printed book with two enclosures, printed ephemera, and two medals related to harpist Helen Patuffa Hood and her mother Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Scottish musician and folk-song collector.
The printed book is a signed copy of The Road to the Isles (Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son, 1927) by Kenneth Macleod given by the author himself to Patuffa as...
Dates:
1889; 1925-1928; 1946
Collection of 4 Manuscript music books containing music for pipes
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1429
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of:
1 x manuscript volume - 12 pages with ornamental borders - name James Morrison, Scroggie Hill, 20 October 1875
1 x manuscript volume - 42 pages with ornamental borders - name Jas. Morison, 23 October 1878
1 x manuscript volume - 16 pages which includes rubber stamp of J.M. Miller, Musical Repository, Perth, and name James Morrison, Scroggie Hill,...
Dates:
1875-1893
Collection of assorted music
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1173
Scope and Contents
The item contains musical notation to some short pieces including: 'Sir Patrick Spens'; 'Lord Aboyne'; 'The song of the olden time'; 'The convent bell'; 'Der Alpenjaeger'; 'Jock o' Hazeldean'; 'The Laird o' Cockpen'; and, 'For a' that'. There are also some marches, waltzes and polkas.
Dates:
1829
Collection of music
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1179
Scope and Contents
The item contains musical notation to some short pieces including: 'White wings'; 'Dinah Doe'; duet from 'Ruddigore''; the 'Reel of Tulloch'; 'The Happy Fatherland'; and, 'Mia bella'.
Dates:
1888
Collection of Old Scots Tunes [...] Set and most humbly dedicated to the Right Honorable Lady Erskine, by Francis Barsanti
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1687
Scope and Contents
The content of the work is: 'Dumbarton's Drums', Kat Oggie', 'Ettrick Banks', 'Lochaber', 'The Lass of Peatie's mill', 'The Highland Laddie', 'Busk ye buske ye my bonny bride', 'The last time I came o'er the moor', 'Corn riggs are bonny', 'Waly waly', 'Johnnie Faa', 'Lord Aboyne's welcome or Cumbernauld House', 'The Bush aboon Traquair', 'To danton me', 'The Birks of Envermay', 'Fife and all the Lands about it', 'Peggy I must love thee', 'Logan water', 'Pinkie House', 'The Sutours of Selkirk',...
Dates:
1742
Concert programmes of the Orchestral Lecture-Concerts for School Children in the Usher Hall, 1924-1928
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1557
Scope and Contents
The concert programmes consist of:
4th Orchestral Lecture-Concert for School Children in the Usher Hall, Friday 22 February 1924. Education Authority for Edinburgh
5th Orchestral Lecture-Concert for School Children in the Usher Hall, Friday 29 February 1924. Education Authority for Edinburgh
6th Orchestral Lecture-Concert for School Children in the Usher Hall, Friday 7 March...
Dates:
1924-1928
Concert programmes of the Waddell Orchestra, 1933-1984
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1499
Scope and Contents
In addition to the Concert Programmes there is a copy of a Questionnaire on Youth Orchestras sent by a researcher to the Orchestra in 1988, along with the answers prepared for the form, and associated correspondence. The collection of Concert Programmes is composed of:
1 x copy of programme for Concert by Preparatory Orchestra and Pupils at St. Cuthbert's Hall on Saturday, 9th December 1933
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Dates:
1933-1988
Correspondence with James Blades, and material relating to percussion instruments
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1171
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of a number of letters to James Blades including :
letter from Music Librarian, Liverpool City Libraries, 20 June 1967, about a title to do with the tambourine
letter from Music Librarian, Liverpool City Libraries, 27 June 1967, indicating that photostat pages relevant to the tambourine will be sent to Blades
letter from Deutsche Grammophon (GB) Ltd....
Dates:
1930-1967
Early seventeenth-century manuscript of Italian and French lute music in French tablature, c.1620
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2073
Scope and Contents
Formerly part of the Dolmetsch Collection, this manuscript contains some 320 pieces of Italian and French lute music in French tablature, 89 of which are unique to this source. The compositions, by 26 identified composers, date from the transitional period between the stylistic epochs of the Renaissance and Baroque. One composer of particular interest is the lutenist Michelagnolo (or Michelangelo) Galilei (1575-1631), son of the theorist and lutenist Vincenzo Galilei and brother of Galileo...
Dates:
c1620
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- Hood, Helen Patuffa, 1889-1967 (harpist) 3
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- Fraser, Marjory Kennedy-, 1857-1930 (singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger) 2
- Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988 (Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Absolon, Elizabeth, fl. 1850-1857 1
- Aikman, James, fl. 1804 1
- Baillie, George, 1664-1738 (Scottish politician) 1
- Barsanti, Francis, 1690-1772, flautist, oboist, composer. 1
- Blades, James, 1901-1999 (English percussionist) 1
- Boughton, Alice, 1866-1943 (Photographer) 1
- Boulanger, Juliette Nadia, 1887-1979 (French composer and music teacher) 1
- Collinson, Francis Montgomery, 1895-1985 1
- Cowan, Kate M., fl. 1888 1
- Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848 (composer) 1
- Dowland, John, c 1563-1626 (English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer.) 1
- Education Authority for Edinburgh 1
- Firth, George, 1901-1983 (scientist, professional singer, teacher, choral and orchestral conductor, lecturer, administrator and author) 1
- Forester, Robert, fl. 1818 1
- Fraser, Angus, c 1800-1870 (Musician, Colour Sergeant) 1
- Fraser, Simon, 1773-1852 (father of Angus Fraser) 1
- Galilei, Michelagnolo, 1575-1631 (Italian composer and lutenist) 1
- Grierson, Mary Gardner (pianist and conductor) 1
- Holiday, Henry, 1839-1927 (pre-Raphaelite painter) 1
- Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907 (violinist) 1
- Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 1
- Mackie, Neil, b 1946 (Scottish tenor) 1
- Macleod, Kenneth, 1871-1955 (Church of Scotland minister and folklorist) 1
- Morison, Agnes, fl. 1829 1
- Morrison, James, fl. 1875-1893 (bagpiper) 1
- Newman, Sidney Thomas Mayow (Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Niecks, Professor, Friedrich, 1845-1924 (Professor of Music) 1
- Oakeley, Herbert Stanley, Sir, 1830-1903 (Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Sanders, Dora Susan Chalmers, fl. 1924-1928 (student; wife of James Russell Turner) 1
- Scottish Musical Society (1879-1900) 1
- Struthers, Christina, d. 1944 (Mus.Bac. 1899 | wife of Frederick Niecks) 1
- Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 1875-1940 (Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Waddell Orchestra and Soloists 1
- Waddell, Maimie, fl. 1933-1984 (conductor) 1
- Waddell, Ruth, 1891-1980 (violoncello teacher and performer) 1
- Wallace, Alexander, fl. 1880-1910 (bagpiper) 1
- Weisse, Sophie, 1852-1945 (Scottish music teacher) 1 ∧ less
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