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Sheet music

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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. ...
Dates: 1902-1933
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Copy of setting of Rupert Brooke's The Dead, 1969, dedicated to the memory of Leslie George Cairns, by Dr Gilbert Kennedy, 1969

 Item — Box CLX-D-29: Series Coll-1657/6
Identifier: Coll-1657/6/1/7
Scope and Contents

1 copy of setting of Rupert Brooke's The Dead, 1969, dedicated to the memory of Leslie George Cairns, by Dr Gilbert Kennedy (1916-2000), a cousin of Irene Jessie Young. The setting was commissioned for the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, 1969.

Dates: 1969
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Irene J. Young / Other correspondence / Papers and correspondence relating to Gilbert Young Kennedy, Irene J. Young's cousin

"Fantasiettina sul nome illustre dell'egregio poeta Christopher Grieve ossia Hugh MacDiarmid" (Tiny Little Fantasy on the Illustrious Name of the Distinguished Poet Christopher Grieve, i.e. Hugh MacDiarmid), by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, 1961

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2124/8/2
Scope and Contents

"Fantasiettina sul nome illustre dell'egregio porta Christopher Grieve ossia Hugh MacDiarmid" (Tiny Little Fantasy on the Illustrious Name of the Distinguished Poet Christopher Grieve, i.e. Hugh McaDiarmid), by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, 1961, manuscript.s, 4pp.

Dates: 1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Literary Papers of Hugh MacDiarmid collected by Kulgin D. Duval / Music

Music scores entitled "I'll Walk Beside You" and "Passing By", that belonged to Irene Young, 1930s

 File — Box CLX-A-1619: Series Coll-1657/9
Identifier: Coll-1657/9/3
Scope and Contents

Two pieces of printed sheet music in paper wrappers, 31 × 24 cm. One is entitled "I'll Walk Beside You", song by Edward Lockton, music by Alan Murray, published by Chappell & Co. The other one is entitled "Passing By", vocal duet, words by Herrick and music by Edward C. Purcell, published by Edwin Ashdown. Both are signed "Irene Young".

Dates: 1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Irene J. Young / Miscellaneous

Settings by Francis G. Scott for lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid and Robert Burns, 1923-1940

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-2124/8/1
Scope and Contents This series consists of music settings by Francis George Scott for lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid and Robert Burns.1. Settings by Francis George Scott for lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid, being: "Crowdieknow" (1924); "Milkwort and Bog-cotton" (1932); "The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch" (1940); "Country Life’(1923); ‘Sabine" (1924); "Penny Wheep"; "The Love-sick lass" (1924); "There’s an unco tune"; "The 3 Fishes"; and, "At the window" (1930). 43 folios.2. Settings by Francis...
Dates: 1923-1940
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Literary Papers of Hugh MacDiarmid collected by Kulgin D. Duval / Music