Historical Music
Collections
Looking for something from the past? - Don't go past these sites!!
Bruce Olsen - The collection work - Bruce Olson died on October 31, 2003. His website will be kept up as to links, etc., but in essence the scholarship will remain that of Bruce Olson. A veritable Goldmine!!
The Elizabeth Ross Manuscript - Original Highland Airs Collected at Raasay in 1812 By Elizabeth Jane Ross
FARNE (Folk Archive Resource North East) – Covering the North East of England and Border Country with collections from 1694/5 though to modern times.
The Frank Kidson Collection - Frank Kidson (1855 - 1926) was born in Leeds. He had only the rudiments of a formal education, but became a recognised authority on his chosen subjects - Folk Music collected in Yorkshire and southern Scotland.
Highland Music Trust - Based in Inverness offers access to many historical collections in PDF format.
JSTOR - A vast quantity of on line Scottish music publications.
National Library Of Scotland – Scottish Music & Song and Scottish Tune Collection - You will have to look at this site - just too much to put down here!!
rareTUNES, - An Archive of Scottish Music. Recordings range from near-studio quality to crowded and noisy house sessions, from digital media to old bits of tape, vinyl and 78s.
Scottish Music Index – 18th & 19th Printed Collections - Just what it says on the lable - A Bibliography of over 200 volumes of Scottish instrumental music - mostly dance music but with many beautiful slow airs - published between 1700 and 1922 and an A-Z list of the tune titles in them (over 12000) - and much more. Edited by Charles Gore.
Scottish Music Sources — your musicological juke-box - ScotMus.com aims to become an experimental online reconstruction of the entire history of all styles and traditions of Scottish music, from the oldest surviving evidence up to the early modern era. The heart of the project is the online publication of new free-to-access multimedia editions of the key sources of Scottish music, along with its cultural heritage — all presented in a scholarly but chatty style.
James Scott Skinner - Music of 'The Strathspey King' - The Title says it all - but there's more!
The Wighton Collection of National Music - Dundee - O.K. you have to go to Dundee to see this, but it would be worth the trip!