Music at Drum Castle

Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses
Catalogued and surveyed by Dr Roger B. Williams MBE
Hon. Music Advisor to NTS



Former Owners  –  Drum Castle

Monday 6th October 2025

Balfe, Michael William (1808-1870) – Irish composer

I feel that thou art changed : ballad / Michael Balfe  Dr 06/6

Barnett, John (1802-1890) – English composer

The moon is up! : serenade / T B Phipps  Dr 29/7

Bishop, Henry Rowley (1786-1855) – English composer 

He is all the world to me : song / Henry Bishop  Dr 03/27

Loch na Garr : air with piano or harp / Henry Bishop  Dr 03/40

The overture and music to The Barber of Seville : adapted to the English stage / Henry Bishop  FLC-07/8

Blacklocky, Dr

Six duets for two violins / Emanuele Barbella  Dr 02-A/1

Braham, John (c1774-1856) – English tenor

Blue bonnets over the Border, or March, march, Etterick & Teviot-Dale / George Alexander Lee  Dr 32/3

C--, M-- M--

Scenes of my youth : ballad / Julius Benedict  Dr 28/23

Crawford, Mrs

Divertimento for the harp / J Balsir Chatterton  Dr 46/8

Forbes, Mary Elizabeth (1760-1803) – see also Mary Elizabeth Hay née Forbes

Men of Prometheus 'Op. 24' : for piano / Ludwig van Beethoven  Dr 33/9

Overture (alla scozzese) to Guy Mannering, or the Gipsey's Prophecy : for piano / Henry Bishop  Dr 46/17

Six sonatas for the harpsichord or pianoforte Op. 3 [kbd] : [keybd] / Antonio Sacchini   C07/1

Three sonatas [ie trios] for the pianoforte or harpsichord Op. 17. Bk 1 : [bc] / J F X Sterkel  B21/1

Garden-Campbell, Mrs – ? Penelope Smythe of Glenlyon, m. Francis Garden-Campbell (1768-1815) of Troup

Mi lagnerò tacendo : vocal trio / Leonardo Perugini  Dr 37/37

Gregor, Mrs

  Dr 07 (whole vol.)

Specimens of various styles of music (3 vol.) / William Crotch  Dr 07/1

Hamilton, Miss – '3 Thistle Street, Edinburgh'

  Dr 05 (whole vol.)

  Dr 10 (whole vol.)

  Dr 11 (whole vol.)

He loves and rides away : ballad / Charles Edward Horn  Dr 03/23

Hawes, William (1785-1846) – English composer

We're a' noddin' at our house at hame : ballad / William Hawes  Dr 12/30

Irvine, A

Porgi amor, qualche ristoro : aria / W A Mozart  Dr 16/18

Irvine, Alexander (of Drum)

  Dr 08 (whole vol.)

  Dr 14 (whole vol.)

(Pleyel's) Concerto in E flat : for piano or harpsichord &c / J B Cramer  Dr 09/2

Sinfonia in D : [vn1] / Pietro Crispi  Dr 02-A/9

Sinfonia in E flat : [vn1] / Anton Fils  Dr 02-A/8

Sinfonia in E flat : [vn1] / Niccolò Jommelli  Dr 02-A/6

Six concertos for the violin / Luigi Borghi  Dr 02-A/11

Six duets for two violins / Emanuele Barbella  Dr 02-A/2

Six overtures in eight parts for two violins, &c Op. 4 : [vn1] / Carl Friedrich Abel  Dr 02-A/5

Six symphonies à deux violons, &c Op. 7 : [vn1] / Carl Friedrich Abel  Dr 02-A/3

The songs [etc.] in the Masque of Comus / Thomas Arne  Dr 09/8

Twelve grand concertos in score (Concerti grossi Op. 6) / George Frideric Handel  Dr 04/1

Irvine, Alexander Forbes (1777-1861)

  Dr 01 (whole vol.)

If doughty deeds my ladye please : ballad / Unidentified Composers   Dr 32/16

The Scotish minstrel : selected from the vocal melodies of Scotland / R A Smith  Dr 44/1

Irvine, Alexander Forbes (1818-1892) – ch. Alexander Forbes Irvine (1777-1861)

  Dr 18 (whole vol.)

Ye mariners of England : song / Charles Dibdin  Dr 25/16

Irvine, Anna Margaretta Forbes (1828-1900) – m. Alexander Forbes Irvine (1818-1892)

  Dr 10 (whole vol.)

  Dr 12 (whole vol.)

  Dr 18 (whole vol.)

  Dr 31 (whole vol.)

  Dr 32 (whole vol.)

  Dr 46 (whole vol.)

The Araby maid : ballad / John Thomas Surenne  Dr 34/37

Five quadrilles : for piano / David Bruguier  Dr 31/10

He never said he loved : ballad / G A Hodson  Dr 34/15

The maid of Athens : song / George Kiallmark  Dr 21/25

O leave me to my sorrow : ballad / John Stevenson  Dr 32/24

The Saxe Cobourg waltz : variations for harp or piano / John Munro  Dr 33/1

The Scotish minstrel : selected from the vocal melodies of Scotland / R A Smith  Dr 44/1

Sure these soft Celestial strains : song / Henry Bishop  Dr 32/28

With verdure clad : aria / J Nightingale  Dr 21/42

Irvine, Beatrice J (of Drum)

  Dr 19 (whole vol.)

The regicide : [song from the opera?] / Charles Lucas  Dr 28/21

Irvine, Beatrice M

Brilliant fantasia on subjects from Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots : for piano / Sigismond Thalberg  Dr 36/23

The dream of home : ballad / Thomas Moore  Dr 28/8

Irvine, Beatrice, of Schivas (b. 1821) – ch. Alexander Forbes Irvine (1777-1861)

  Dr 15 (whole vol.)

  Dr 17 (whole vol.)

  Dr 24 (whole vol.)

  Dr 25 (whole vol.)

  Dr 28 (whole vol.)

  Dr 34 (whole vol.)

  Dr 35 (whole vol.)

  Dr 36 (whole vol.)

  Dr 37 (whole vol.)

  Dr 38 (whole vol.)

  Dr 39 (whole vol.)

  Dr 40 (whole vol.)

  Dr 41 (whole vol.)

A te, o cara, amor talora : aria / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 26/6

Ad altro laccio vedersi in braccio in un momento : arietta / Mauro Giuliani  Dr 25/1

Ah! Non lasciarmi, no : duet / Saverio Mercadante  Dr 39/17

Ah! Vieni al tempio, fedel Arturo : aria / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 16/23

Aileen Mavourneen a cushla macree : Irish song / F Nicholls Crouch  Dr 28/20

Amo te solo, te solo amai : canzoncina / Felice Blangini  Dr 25/2

The angel's whisper : song / Samuel Lover  Dr 34/1

Araby's daughter : ballad / George Kiallmark  Dr 25/26

Artuo si e desso Artur mio ben : duetto / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 16/25

Ascolta-se Romeo t'uccise un figlio : cavatina / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 15/7

Assis dans ma barque : [couplets] / Michele Carafa  Dr 34/16

At Morn upon the beach I stood : ballad / Julius Benedict  Dr 41/14

Aurora waltzes : for piano / Joseph Labitzky  Dr 23/17

The banks of the blue Moselle : ballad / G Herbert Rodwell  Dr 25/9

The beloved land (adapted to Bérat's Tyrolienne) : song / H W Ormond  Dr 26/27

The beloved one : ballad / Mrs Robert Arkwright  Dr 35/24

Beloved Zillerthal / Emilie Souper  Dr 28/7

Il braccio mio conquise [from Il Tancredi] : aria / Giuseppe Nicolini  Dr 26/12

The braes o' Balquhither / Finlay Dun  Dr 28/9

Brandhofen-Walzer : for piano / Joseph Labitzky  Dr 23/1

Buona notte, amato bene : romanza / Franz Hünten  Dr 15/10

By the gentle Guadalquivir (Songs of Spain no. 2) : duet / Sydney Nelson  Dr 35/30

The cachoucha dance : for piano / I B Arnold  Dr 16/3

La calabrese : duet (Sop+Cont) / Vincenzo Gabussi  Dr 15/3

Care pupille [and] Amor che nasce (by Blangini) : duets / T T Magrath  Dr 15/4

The charm : song / Samuel Lover  Dr 25/22

Che mai sarà di me, e nel fior degli anni miei : recit. & cavatina / Gaetano Donizetti  Dr 15/8

The child's first grief : duet / Harriet Browne  Dr 34/28

Cinta di fiori, romanza in [Bellini's] I Puritani : rondino for piano / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 16/4

Com' è bello quale incanto : romanza / Gaetano Donizetti  Dr 39/7

Come down my dearest (The Troubadour's Serenade) : song / George Croal  Dr 26/14

Il contrabbandiere : duetto / Vincenzo Gabussi  Dr 26/11

Deh! con te, con te li prendi : duet / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 39/9

Deh! non ferir, deh sentimi [and] Alla gioja ed al piacer : recit. & aria / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 25/3

Deux morceaux choisis pour le pianoforte / J N Hummel  Dr 24/2

Did ye see the red rose on its bonny green stem : song / George F Harris  Dr 25/23

Divertissement sur des motifs de l'opéra Les Huguenots (de Meyerbeer) Op. 76 : for piano / Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy  Dr 27/6

The Duke of Reichstadt's waltz : for piano / Philippe Musard  Dr 15/23

Ebben si aduni [and] Tu vedrai la sventurata : recit. & aria / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 15/5

Elizabethan waltzes Op.71 : for piano / Johann Strauss I  Dr 42/10

Fantasia brillante sur des thêmes de Semiramide de Rossini Op. 29 : for piano / Gioachino Rossini  Dr 15/16

Favourite German waltzes, set 10 : for piano / Julian Gustave Spindler  Dr 27/5

A favourite Scotch set of quadrilles, [etc] : for piano / Julian Gustave Spindler  Dr 15/13

Give me thy blessing, dear Mother, pray : ballad / J W Cherry  Dr 38/6

Give that wreath to me : ballad / John Stevenson  Dr 34/9

Grand galop : for piano / Johann Strauss I  Dr 42/7

Grandes variations sur la marche favourite de 'I Puritani' : for piano / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 16/10

The Grecian daughter : ballad / Joseph Philip Knight  Dr 28/13

Guarda che bianca luna : romanza / Théophile Bucher  Dr 25/4

Hart's thirty-first set of quadrilles : for piano duet with harp ad lib. / Neville Butler Challoner  Dr 15/15

Hope : song / Madame Luddy  Dr 34/26

I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows : duet / Charles Edward Horn  Dr 28/4

I remember I remember how my childhood fleeted by : ballad / Mrs Edward Fitz-Gerald  Dr 26/17

Io son ricco e tu sei bella : duet / Gaetano Donizetti  Dr 35/27

The Irish emigrant : song / George Barker  Dr 37/29

Je ne sais plus ce que je veux : romance / Antoine Romagnesi  Dr 34/25

Kathleen Mavourneen : song / F Nicholls Crouch  Dr 28/16

The keel row : duet / Miss Smith  Dr 28/25

Künstler-Ball-Tänze Op. 150 (Souvenirs de Strauss, no. 4) : for piano / Johann Strauss I  Dr 42/8

The land of the West : ballad / Samuel Lover  Dr 39/16

Lasciami! Non t'ascolto : duet / Gioachino Rossini  Dr 15/12

The last links are broken (a subject from Mozart) : piano duet / Fanny Steers  Dr 25/8

List to the convent bells! : notturno / John Blockley  Dr 34/8

Logie o' Buchan : piano variations / John Thomas Surenne  Dr 27/16

The London and Birmingham Railway quadrilles : for piano / W Henry Wilkes  Dr 42/13

Long, long ago! : ballad / Thomas Haynes Bayly  Dr 45/17

Look forth, my fairest! : serenade / Michael Balfe  Dr 42/4

The Lowlands o' Scotland will ne'er be my hame : for piano with 2nd voice ad lib. / R A Smith  Dr 26/24

Make ready! Make ready! My Nautilus bark, or The fairy's voyage : song / 'Miss' Lightfoot  Dr 35/8

Mary Jamieson : song / Mrs Orme  Dr 26/26

Meet again! : duet / Henry Bishop  Dr 28/5

La mia canzon d'amore [and] A una fonte afflitto e solo : recit. & romance / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 16/22

Mira, O Norma, a tuoi ginocchi : duet / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 34/36

Moonlight, music, love & flowers : duet / John Barnett  Dr 15/9

The morning dream : song / Samuel Lover  Dr 25/14

My boyhood's home : song / William Michael Rooke  Dr 35/12

New Swiss melodies as duets for two voices / Franz Stockhausen  Dr 28/17

Le ninfe misteriose : duettino / Vincenzo Gabussi  Dr 26/5

Non più fra i sassi algosi : arietta per camera / Saverio Mercadante  Dr 34/20

Numi che intesi mai! [and] Se m'abbandoni bella speranza : recit. & cavatina / Saverio Mercadante  Dr 39/18

O bella Napoli : duet / Anon.  Dr 42/18

O lovely peace : for piano / William Horsley  Dr 45/32

O stranier che di bell' opre : canzonetta / Théophile Bucher  Dr 15/6

O'er the waters by moonlight : song / William Grosse  Dr 22/8

Oh! Guardate che figura! : duet / Pietro Carlo Guglielmi  Dr 42/15

Oh, if she had never known him : ballad / George Linley  Dr 25/18

Les oiseaux, a second set of original quadrilles : piano duet / Duarte J Dos Santos  Dr 27/19

The old oak tree (or: Woodman, spare that tree) : ballad / Henry Russell  Dr 41/21

One struggle more : ballad / Mrs Robert Arkwright  Dr 35/6

Orpheus-Klänge Walzer. Op.126 : piano duet / Joseph Lanner  Dr 23/14

Overture to Donizetti's Anna Bolena, new ed. : for piano / Antonio Diabelli  Dr 27/22

The overture to the opera Zampa : for piano / Ferdinand Hérold  Dr 27/10

Una paloma [a melody by Yradier] : air for 1 or 2 voices / C M Sola  Dr 30/8

Philomelen-Walzer : for piano / Johann Strauss I  Dr 42/9

Pietà, pietà. Lamento della mendica : air de ballet / Giacomo Meyerbeer  Dr 38/12

Porgi amor, qualche ristoro : aria / W A Mozart  Dr 16/18

Quadrilles and waltz : for piano duet / N Louis  Dr 27/18

Queen of my soul : Rizzio's last song / Miss Wollaston  Dr 35/20

Qui la voce sua soave : aria / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 42/16

La ronda : duet for sop. & contr. / Vincenzo Gabussi  Dr 26/9

Rondeau brillant sur un thême de Zampa (de Hérold) : for piano / Theodor Döhler  Dr 23/5

Rossini's overture to Otello : piano duet / Antonio Diabelli  Dr 15/25

Round my own pretty rose : ballad / George Alexander Lee  Dr 26/33

The Royal Eastern Regatta quadrilles : for piano / J F Pole  Dr 16/5

Scenes of my youth : ballad / Julius Benedict  Dr 28/23

The scepter of pleasure (Frohsinns-Scepter Walzer) Op.131 : piano duet / Joseph Lanner  Dr 23/13

Se crudele il cor : aria finale / Gaetano Donizetti  Dr 42/19

Se o cara sorridi : duetto / Vincenzo Gabussi  Dr 34/10

Segui, oh cara, passi miei : duet / Louis Spohr  Dr 30/11

Soave immagine d'amor : cavatina / Saverio Mercadante  Dr 15/11

Son vergin vezzosa in vesta di sposa : polacca / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 16/15

Les souvenirs du pays : tyrolienne / Amédée de Beauplan  Dr 34/23

Su questa man concedi : arietta / Giovanni Pacini  Dr 25/5

Sull' aria : duetto / William Knyvett  Dr 16/19

Then you'll remember me : ballad / Michael Balfe  Dr 41/13

They bade me forget thee : ballad / Helen Blackwood  Dr 25/21

Three favourite waltzes for the pianoforte / George Croal  Dr 42/6

Through the wood (The Forest Fairy's Song) : cavatina / Charles Edward Horn  Dr 26/1

T'intendo si mio cor, con tanto palpitar : duet / Gaetano Donizetti  Dr 26/10

Tiranno cadrai : aria / Michael Costa  Dr 16/14

Tutto ho perduto al fin [and] Ah! che forse in tai momenti : recit & aria / Giovanni Pacini  Dr 26/8

Wenn du wärst mein eigen : song / Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken  Dr 41/3

When time has bereft thee (2nd ed.) : song / Thomas Cooke  Dr 34/29

Wilt thou tempt the wave : duet / John Barnett  Dr 34/34

Irvine, J B – of Schivas

The bloom is on the rye : [song] / Henry Bishop  Dr 34/24

Irvine, Jane

The braes o' Balquhither / Finlay Dun  Dr 28/9

Brandhofen-Walzer : for piano / Joseph Labitzky  Dr 23/1

By the gentle Guadalquivir (Songs of Spain no. 2) : duet / Sydney Nelson  Dr 35/30

The daughter's song to her mother / Thomas Cooke  Dr 28/22

Di piacer mi balza il cor : cavatina / Gioachino Rossini  Dr 42/17

The dream of home : ballad / Thomas Moore  Dr 28/8

Galope from Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots : for piano / Johann Strauss I  Dr 23/4

Hart's thirty-first set of quadrilles : for piano duet with harp ad lib. / Neville Butler Challoner  Dr 15/15

I feel that thou art changed : ballad / Michael Balfe  Dr 06/6

I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows : duet / Charles Edward Horn  Dr 28/4

The keel row : duet / Miss Smith  Dr 28/25

Meet again! : duet / Henry Bishop  Dr 28/5

O lovely peace : for piano / William Horsley  Dr 45/32

One hour with thee! : ballad / Thomas Cooke  Dr 35/1

Overture and airs in Verdi's Nabucodonosor : for piano / Giuseppe Verdi  Dr 36/12

Una paloma [a melody by Yradier] : air for 1 or 2 voices / C M Sola  Dr 30/8

The Pestal quadrilles : piano selection / H W Ormond  Dr 42/11

Potpourris on airs from 'Norma' (no. 1) : for piano / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 42/21

Rondo on an air from Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeria - Op. 231 No. 2 : for piano / Carl Czerny  Dr 27/20

Rossini's overture to Otello : piano duet / Antonio Diabelli  Dr 15/25

The Saxe Cobourg waltz : variations for harp or piano / John Munro  Dr 33/1

The scepter of pleasure (Frohsinns-Scepter Walzer) Op.131 : piano duet / Joseph Lanner  Dr 23/13

Segui, oh cara, passi miei : duet / Louis Spohr  Dr 30/11

Irvine, Jane Christina (1825-1880) – ch. Alexander Forbes Irvine (1777-1861)

Die Abenteurer Op.91 : Walzer für Pianoforte / Joseph Lanner  Dr 23/7

L'amour et les roses : piano variations / George Kiallmark  Dr 15/22

Che farò senza Euridice? : aria / Christoph von Gluck  Dr 38/17

Cinta di fiori, romanza in [Bellini's] I Puritani : rondino for piano / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 16/4

Die Fashionablen-Walzer Op.55 : for piano / Joseph Labitzky  Dr 23/9

Forth I roam in lonely sadness (by Kalliwoda) : song / John Rhing  Dr 28/3

I'll return to the home of my mind : ballad / Emilie Souper  Dr 28/18

[German waltz by Joseph Lanner - unidentified] : for piano / Joseph Lanner  Dr 23/8

The merry peal : ballad / Emilie Souper  Dr 28/10

Mille-Fleurs Walzer Op.116 : for piano / Joseph Lanner  Dr 23/11

Les nageurs (Die Schwimmer) Op.99 : waltz / Joseph Lanner  Dr 23/23

Die Neapolitaner Op.107 : for piano / Joseph Lanner  Dr 23/16

Night at sea : song / Henri Herz  Dr 28/12

Of a' the airts : song / Finlay Dun  Dr 28/6

Oh! For ever when I gaz'd on thee : song / Emilie Souper  Dr 45/31

The old house at home : ballad / Edward Loder  Dr 28/15

Orpheus-Klänge Walzer. Op.126 : piano duet / Joseph Lanner  Dr 23/14

Overture to Rossini's Guillaume Tell : for piano / Gioachino Rossini  Dr 16/7

Potpourris on airs from 'Norma', no. 3 : piano duet / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 40/2

Regata-Galoppe Op.134 : for piano / Joseph Lanner  Dr 23/12

Le retour des promis : sung bolero / Josef Dessauer  Dr 41/1

Rondo Op.22 no. 2 : for piano / John Thomas Surenne  Dr 42/14

Rondo on an air from Mercadante's Eliza e Claudio - Op. 231 No. ? : for piano / Carl Czerny  Dr 27/13

Rondoletto on an air from Auber's Le Maçon - Op. 231 No. 3 : for piano / Carl Czerny  Dr 27/15

The song of rest / Ludwig van Beethoven  Dr 28/2

There is no home like my own : ballad / María Malibrán  Dr 28/14

Tourbillon-Galoppe : piano duet / Joseph Lanner  Dr 23/10

The welcome: Aileen Aroon : Irish song / F Nicholls Crouch  Dr 45/22

Die Werber Op.103 : for piano / Joseph Lanner  Dr 23/21

When first I over the mountain trod : ballad / Samuel Lover  Dr 28/11

Irvine, Maj. Gen. Charles (1823-1906) – ch. Alexander Forbes Irvine (1777-1861)

Oh! For ever when I gaz'd on thee : song / Emilie Souper  Dr 45/31

Irvine, Miss

All'idea che reo non sono : aria / Marco Aurelio Marliani  Dr 34/13

Ave Sanctissima (Evening song to the Virgin) : duet / Harriet Browne  Dr 34/14

The Cuidich'n Rhi waltzes : for piano / J R Lamert  Dr 23/6

First set of reels and strathspeys / Charles Leslie  Dr 45/14

I'll return to the home of my mind : ballad / Emilie Souper  Dr 28/18

I've wander'd in dreams : duet / J A Wade  Dr 42/3

The merry peal : ballad / Emilie Souper  Dr 28/10

Si, fino all'ore estreme : duet / Vincenzo Bellini  Dr 34/11

Irvine, Mr

Six duets for two violins / Emanuele Barbella  Dr 02-A/1

Irvine, Mrs (fl.1827?)

The celebrated Galop from Gustavus the Third : for piano solo or duet / Daniel Auber  Dr 15/14

Irvine, Mrs M

  Dr 29 (whole vol.)

Leslie, Charles Stephen Leslie (b.1832) – ch. Col. Charles Leslie of Balquhain (1785-1870)

First set of reels and strathspeys / Charles Leslie  Dr 45/14

Lohse, I J

If o'er the boundless sky : Lied / Bernhard Molique  Dr 38/4

Millard, Virtue (Mrs Philip) (d. c1840) – English composer

The birks of Aberfeldy : ballad / Mrs Philip Millard  Dr 29/9

Oliphant, Mrs

Capt. Young's Farewell to Roxburghshire (by J. Flintoff) : for piano / J H Rogers  Dr 05/41

Sinclair, John (1791-1857) – Scottish composer

Hey the bonnie breast-knots : ballad / John Sinclair  Dr 32/13

Thomson, George – Edinburgh bookseller

  LHM 01-4 (whole vol.)

A select collection of original Scottish airs, 3rd set / Leopold Kozeluch  Dr 11/1

A select collection of original Scottish airs, vol. 1 / Ignaz Pleyel  LHM 01-4/1

Three grand sonatas [ie trios] for the pianoforte or harpsichord, 1st set : [kbd] / Leopold Kozeluch  C09/4

Three grand sonatas [ie trios] for the pianoforte or harpsichord, 2nd set : [kbd] / Leopold Kozeluch  C09/5

Urquhart, Eleanor (b.1769) – ch. William Urquhart (1741-1796) and Margaret Irvine (1748-1773)

The psalms of David for the use of parish churches / Edward Miller   Dr 20/1

35 former owners mentioned in 242 separate works at Drum Castle