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The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Prints

History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, music sheets, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century, tunes, violin

Details of over 200 Scottish printed sources of vernacular violin music from before 1850, along with images and indexes of 22 books from the University of Glasgow and Perth’s A K Bell Library. You can browse the collection, search for tunes and composers, and play the tunes.

Data type: images

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Data underpinning ‘A map of the pibroch landscape, 1760–1841’

History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century, tunes

This database includes bibliographical and summary details of over 200 printed sources of Scottish fiddle music from before 1850. Most of the sources are substantial printed collections, but the database also includes some of the hundreds of surviving single-sheet publications. 22 sources have been digitised and indexed complete.

Data type: text

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The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Manuscripts

History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century, tunes, violin

a comprehensive catalogue of 27 Scottish manuscript sources of violin music from before 1750, with around 3500 tunes all searchable by name, Theme Code and other features.

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The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Prints

Data underpinning ‘A map of the pibroch landscape, 1760–1841’

The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Manuscripts

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