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Songs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Fragment of a song entitled 'Ua'n Oir', 20 October 1870 to 12 December 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/122
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a song entitled 'Ua'n Oir' [Uamh an Òir or Cave of Gold] probably collected from Mòr Cuiri [Marion Currie] Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist beginning 'Na mic uaca, S ioma[dh] maidean bharon bho'eich theid a null'. The song is composed of six lines and it looks as if the first line is incomplete. The text has been scored through in ink and written transversely across it is 'Transcribed 12/12 1883 A[lexander] C[armichael] Book III p[age] 64.'

Dates: 20 October 1870 to 12 December 1883

Song entitled 'A Phiurag sa Phiurag', 20 October 1870 and 12 December 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/121
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'A Phiurag sa Phiurag' [Little Sister Beloved Sister] collected from Mòr Cuiri [Marion Currie], Iocar [Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginnin g'A Phiurag sa Phiurag, O hal ill o, Hogu ho ro, S minig a bha mi stun i bru'ach'. The song is composed of forty-three lines. The text has been scored through in ink and sritten transversely over the first page of text is 'Transcribed 12/12 1883 Book V A[lexander] C[armichael].'

Dates: 20 October 1870 and 12 December 1870