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Songs

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

Found in 441 Collections and/or Records:

Song beginning 'Se t eilbh san t eilbh', 1901

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/16
Scope and Contents

Song beginning 'Se t eilbh san t eilbh, S e t eilbh bu docha leinn' [The Kilt Is My Delight]. The song is composed of twleve lines, but as it is port-a-beul, the second and third lines of each verse are repetitions of the first and given as ditto marks. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1901

Song beginning 'Sid do phiuar gearra nan luim, Mhic Ian ghasda', 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/228
Scope and Contents

Song beginning 'Sid do phiuar gearra nan luim, Mhic Ian ghasda'.

Dates: 1884

Song beginning 'Sil a bho an sil a bho an', nd

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW152/27
Scope and Contents

Song beginning 'Sil a bho an sil a bho an, A cheud sileadh do Chalum Cille mo ghaoil'. The song is composed of ines arranged as eighteen lines, arranged as one line of chorus and five lines of verse in three stanzas. A note refers to the 'second opening' on folio 30r.

Dates: nd

Song beginning 'Teich as an rathad a Charist', 12 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/86
Scope and Contents

Song collected from Mary MacRae, aged 95 years, Taobh Tuath/Northton, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris, beginning 'Teich as an rathad a Charist[iona], Tha nan eir a thi ta mi'. The song is composed of thirty two lines, some of which appear to be incomplete.

Dates: 12 July 1870

Song beginning 'Tha aicead an chri' and accompanying vocabulary note, 18 September 1890

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/21
Scope and Contents

Song collected from Mary Currie, Meall, S Lochboisdale [Am Maol, Ceann a Deas Loch Baghasdal/ South Lochboisdale, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'Tha aicead an chri, O fhogh a bhais'. The song is composed of fifty-one lines. The vocabulary note reads ' Taiteal Aiteal = sight'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 18 September 1890

Song beginning 'Tha mo cheist [or chionn] air an fhiuran', August 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/112
Scope and Contents

Song beginning 'Tha mo cheist [or chionn] air an fhiuran'.

Dates: August 1883

Song beginning 'Thig an trius eir fheara', 21 May 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/18
Scope and Contents

Song collected from Marion MacNeil, Gleann/Glen, Barraigh/Isle of Barra, beginning 'Thig an trius eir fheara, Thig ort pair mhath phiosta'. The song is composed of twelve lines, has a number of amendments and has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere. The accompanying note states that the song was said to have been composed by a daughter of MacLean of Bororay [Boraraigh/Boreray] to Ruary an Tairtair [Roderick MacNeil].

Dates: 21 May 1869

Song beginning 'Thoir am bain[ne] bho dhonn', c1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/19
Scope and Contents

Song beginning 'Thoir am bain[ne] bho dhonn, Thoir e gu trom s gu torrach' [Taladh na Banachaig or The Milkmaid's Lullaby] probably collected in Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula. Text has been written over with 'Trans[cribed] B[ook] II p[age] 166 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael] Creagorry 8 Oct 1875'. [Creag Ghoraidh/Creagorry, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula].

Dates: c1872

Song beginning 'Thug i brian mor an Ard Righ', 8 April 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/66
Scope and Contents

Song beginning 'Thug i brian mor an Ard Righ' probably collected from Mairi Nic GilleMhaoil [Mary MacMillan] Lianacui, Iocar [Lionacuidhe and Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. Text has been scored through as if the text has been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 8 April 1869

Song beginning 'Tobar nam buadh', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/169
Scope and Contents

Song beginning 'Tobar nam buadh, Tha shuas sa gleannan' with a note which follows reading 'A schoolmaster in S Kilda in print' [Hiorta/St Kilda]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887