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Songs

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

Found in 440 Collections and/or Records:

Paper headed 'O'Huidhrin'. By John O'Donovan, 1862

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/4/7/3
Scope and Contents

A paper written by John O'Donovan, containing the song 'Tuilleadh Feasa ar Éirinn Oigh' by Gille na Naomh O'Huidhrin. The text and its English version were prepared by O'Donovan for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society in Dublin, 1862.

Dates: 1862
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material collected for research / History and culture

Papers of Alexander A. Aitchison (1831-1860), Musselburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: MS AIT
Scope and Contents

Manuscript collection of songs and piano pieces belonging to Alexander A Aitchison, Drummore, Musselburgh.

Dates: Undated
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Papers of Louisa Matilda Crawford, nee Montagu

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-336
Identifier: Coll-1839
Scope and Contents The papers consist of loose leaf songs and poems, letters, notes, 10 stitched booklets and a manuscript notebook all relating to, or produced by, Louisa Matilda Jane Crawford (1789-1857) a songwriter. There is both professional correspondence relating to the publication of her work and personal love letters between herself and her husband. Most of the records date from the latter half of Louisa’s life, when she was married, living in London and earning an income through her songwriting....
Dates: 1650-1930; Majority of material found within c 1789-c 1857
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Piping song beginning 'Cha till cha till Mac Criuimein', September 1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/124
Scope and Contents

Piping song beginning 'Cha till cha till Mac Criuimein, ga do thig shith (sith)'. The song was probably collected on the Isle of Barra [Barraigh].

Dates: September 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Poem beginning 'Nuair bha thu sa bhroinn chaothrian' and accompanying vocabulary, c1866

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/16
Scope and Contents

Poem beginning 'Nuair bha thu sa bhroinn chaothrain, Bu fhreasdalach mi ga chobhair' [The Rowan Hostel]. The poem contains twenty-four lines and the vocabulary notes are for 'Meothail = Delight and 'Air dhealbh mhuic = Like hogs'.

Dates: c1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Poem or song beginning 'Tha uaisle air MacLeoid', 27 February 1895

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/91
Scope and Contents

Poem or song written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, beginning 'Tha uaisle air MacLeoid, 'S cha' n e uaisle Innsa-Gall'. The poem/song is composed of eight lines and is written in ink.

Dates: 27 February 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Poem/Song entitled 'Tochra Na Mnatha' and accompanying story, 1885

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/58
Scope and Contents

Poem/Song entitled 'Tochra Na Mnatha' collected from Fionnladh nan Gobhar, cattleman, Grogearry, South Uist [Groigearraidh/Grogarry, Uibhist a Deas] beginning 'Nuair a theid mo bhean an bhuaile' and accompanying story which tells how the husband in the song was 'demurring as to the amount of tochar [dowry] he got with his wife'.

Dates: 1885
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Quern song beginning 'Beil a bhrath chail[leag]', 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/328
Scope and Contents

Quern song beginning 'Beil a bhrath chail[leag]'.

Dates: 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

R.A.M.C. song, originating in the Edinburgh University R.A.M.C.

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1705
Content Description

Song text on card, entitled "R.A.M.C. Song", and consisting of 5 x verses with chorus. On the rear in ms are the lines:
'here stop and spend a social hour in harmless
mirth and fun, let friendship reign, be
just and kind and evil, speak of none'

Dates: 1914-1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Rhyme beginning 'Mo ghaol an t-agh dosanach dugh', 1884

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/301
Scope and Contents

Rhyme beginning 'Mo ghaol an t-agh dosanach dugh'.

Dates: 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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