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Choral and orchestral concert. Music Hall, George Street, Wednesday, 14th May 1969
Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra
1969
Programme for a concert performed by the Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra signed by Hugh MacDiarmid and Alistair Chisholm, who set two of MacDiarmid's poems to music.
Chapbook
Aberdeen Folk-song Club
1965
Focused on folk-songs, with a special article on McGonagall by Hamish Henderson.
Singalong with Sherlock Holmes
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
1995
A large compilation of canonical songs with scores.
Captain Beefheart
Quartet Books
2000
A biography of one of the most enduring and important figures to have emerged from the 1960s American counter culture.
Cock and harlequin: notes concerning music
Egoist Press
1921
A collection of statements and proposals with an appendix on Stravinsky's 'Le sacre du printemps'.
Le coq et Arlequin: notes autour de la musique
Éditions de la Serene
1918
A collection of statements and proposals with an appendix on Stravinsky's 'Le sacre du printemps'.
Music in mediaeval Scotland
William Reeves
1931
A lecture presented to the Musical Association in London, in 1930.
John Ross, composer, Aberdeen, his circle and work
D. Wyllie & Son
1927
A short history of a musician who was perhaps best known as an organist in Aberdeen. Number 22 of a limited edition of 100. Inscribed by the author to John A. Fairley, an early supporter of a National Library of Scotland, and with his bookplate.
The history of Midlothian's brass bands
Alan McLaren
2016
A history of the various brass bands, past and present, which have emerged over the years in Midlothian's various towns and villages.
Ronald Stevenson: a 50th birthday tribute
New 57 Gallery
1978
Issued to accompany an exhibition held in Edinburgh, in 1978. Gift inscription from Stevenson inside front card cover.
The mythological background of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
Theosophical Publishing Society
1924
An analysis by the then President of the Orpheus Lodge of the Theosophical Society in Scotland.
Some aspects of gipsy music
William Reeves
1913
Some observations on the origins and characteristics of gipsy music. With loosely inserted letter from the author to Mrs Sanderson (wife of the Tweedsmuir Laddie - William Sanderson).
A guide to bowing: Strathspeys, reels, pastoral melodies, hornpipes, etc.
Bayley & Ferguson
1920s
A compilation of tunes and guidance on technique by the Strathspey King.
A child of our time: an oratorio
Beverley School Press
1940
Composed between 1939 and 1941, this pre-dates the first publication of the full score.
The Incredible String Band
Music Sales Corporation
1968
Features 34 songs from the first three albums, with tablature, tuning, and words.
