Hymns

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Hymn for the dying collected from Peggie MacNeill, Gleann/Glen, Barraigh/Isle of Barra beginning 'M anamsa an a laimhs a Righ, A Righ na carach neo. The song is composed of nineteen lines. Peggie states that she heard the prayer from her father John MacNeill and she has taught them to her own children noting 'Both [her parents] had many many old hymns now lost and never heard - not even the name of them.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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This notebook contains a script for a lecture, which was probably delivered on multiple occasions (the front of the notebook notes 15 December 1890 and 22 January 1894, for example). The lecture introduces students to the history, themes, and structures of hymns in Gaelic.

Scope and Contents This is an autograph letter in the third person sent by Sir Herbert Stanley Oakeley, Reid Porfessor of Music atthe University of Edinburgh, to Geogre Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zeland and from 1867 Bishop of Lichfield. 35 Montpellier Villas, Cheltenham, 21 October 1877.In the letter, "in reply to his Lordship's letter just received", Oakeley "begs to say it is not in his power to give the permission for reprintting No. 37 from hymns A[ncient] & M[odern]", a tune...

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Letter, 15 August 1934, Surrey, Frederick Pollock to Donald Tovey. Suggesting that the Latin hymns are too dogmatic and that the Vulgata, Psalms, Apocrypha, Job and St. Paul offer a wealth of material for hymns. Holograph signed.

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List entitled 'Names of hymns' containing the titled of three hymns, probably collected from Ann MacDonald, age 75, Achaderry, Glen Spean, Lochaber [Achadoire, Gleann Spean, Loch Abar, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire]. The first two of the hymns listed are written out on the pages which follow this entry. The text has been scored through.

Scope and Contents Marked 'Mackinnon A13' and noted thus in previous historical records. It has also been previously recorded as A39, and it is not clear when it became A13.The title of the notebook, Laoidhean na Gaeltachd, translates to English as 'Hymns of the Gaelic-speaking region' or 'Hymns of the Highlands' or 'Hymns of the Highlands and Islands'. (Gaeltachd, or, in modern Scottish Gaelic, ...

Scope and Contents These are notebooks containing lecture notes on the following subjects:(a) Gaelic literature: Church and State AD 1000 - AD 1560(b) Gaelic literature: Monastic manuscripts(c) Celtic inscriptions(d) Gaelic literature(e) The unity of old Gaelic literature(f) The old period of Gaelic literature: The early missionaries(g) Literature of the first period: Productiveness and contents(h) The old period of...

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The material is composed of: a folder of hymnological notes and papers, 1927-1943, from Cairns' library, which includes a hardcover exercise book containing additional notes, circa 1900; a folder of hymnological notes, 1932-1942, from the library of Rev. Millar Patrick; miscellaneous hymns and folksongs collected by Cairns, 1922-1942; some leaves on the anthems of Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876), 1939; and, miscellaneous leaves on Wesley, 1943

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This is a pocket volume containing a compilation of psalms and hymns, penned in a single hand probably by John Hoult, entitled "The Psalms of David Selected for Public Worship from various versions. With an appendix containing Hymns for the principal Festivals of the Church of England". It is a direct transcription of a provincial edition of Richard Cecil’s compilation of canonical psalms first published in 1795.

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Song possibly collected from Ann MacDonald, age 75, Achaderry, Glen Spean, Lochabar beginning 'Fhir tha d sheas. air mo lic, Bha mise mar tha this an trasd'. The song is composed of five verses of four lines each. The text has been scored through.