Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses

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



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MacGregor, Joseph (19th c.) Scottish

How blythely the pipe thro' Glenlyon was sounding: song  / Alexander Robertson (arr. )   Drum Dr 22/4

Our blue bonnets over the Border: Scots air  / Alexander Robertson (arr. )   Drum Dr 12/22

Mackay, Charles (1814-1889) Scottish

The boatman of the Ohio: song  / Henry Russell   Drum Dr 37/26

The ship on fire: scena  / Henry Russell   Newhailes NH 42/24

Some love to roam o'er the dark sea-foam: song   / Henry Russell   Newhailes NH 42/15

Macnally, Leonard (1752-1820) Irish

What wakes this new pain in my breast: love song  / Unidentified Composers    Brodie Br 17/1

Macpherson, James (1736-1796) Scottish

Chief of the windy Morven: glee for 3 vv. with piano duet  / J W Callcott   Newhailes NH 38/1

Rise, winds of autumn: song  / J W Callcott   Fraser K01/5

Macrory, Edmund (1831-1904) N. Irish

A few notes on the Temple organ, 2nd ed.  / *XREF*   Fraser L15

Madan, Martin (1726-1790) English

Before Jehovah's awful throne: celebrated hymn  / Anon.   Fyvie FLC-10/11

Maffei, Andrea (1798-1885) Italian

Ad una stella: aria  / Giuseppe Verdi   Drum Dr 37/18

Il tramonto: aria  / Giuseppe Verdi   Drum Dr 37/19

Maggioni, S Manfredo (1792-1870) Italian

Amici più bello sorse il giorno: barcarole  / Daniel Auber   Fraser G11/29

Già del sole lo splendore: serenata  / Franz Schubert   Fraser G11/18

La monaca: arietta  / Michael Balfe   Drum Dr 30/5

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

Il poveretto: romance  / Giuseppe Verdi   Fraser G11/3

The Queen of Night: largo  / Franz Schubert   Fyvie FLC-17/48

Se la vita vuoi godere: barcarole  / Giovanni Tadolini   Fraser G11/7

Sol pianto il ciglio versar: air  / Giacomo Meyerbeer   Drum Dr 38/19

Tristo e fuor d'ogni speranza: recit. & romance  / Francesco Schira   Drum Dr 06/32

Mahony, Miss A (19th c.) Irish

The light bark (6th ed.): song  / J T Craven   Drum Dr 22/20

Malan, César (1787-1864) Swiss

Cantiques chrétiens nos. 25-36: for 2 or 3 vv with organ, piano or harp  / César Malan   Newhailes NH 77/77

Malibrán de Bériot, María (1808-1836) Spanish

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

Marcello, Marco Marcelliano (1818-1865) Italian

De' miei giorni sulmattino: cavatina  / Saverio Mercadante   Fraser G11/4

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1755-1793) Austrian

Portrait charmant, portrait de mon amie: romance  / Giovanni Pacini (arr. )   Fyvie FLC-17/18

Martyn, Charles T. (19th c.) English

Madeline: serenade  / Charles T Martyn   Drum Dr 22/5

Remember me: canzonet In the Spanish style  / Charles T Martyn   Drum Dr 22/28

Marzials, Theo (1850-1920) English

A creole love song  / Mrs Lynedoch Moncrieff   Newhailes NH 77/80

Mason, William (1725-1797) English

Lord of all power and might: for 1 or 2 voices & chorus  / Rev William Mason   Fyvie FLC-10/14

Massey, Gerald (1828-1907) English

Like a tree beside the river: song  / Hamilton Aidé   Fraser L08/14

Matthisson, Friedrich von (1761-1831) German

Adelaida [Op. 46]: cantata  / Ludwig van Beethoven   Fraser F06

Adelaida [Op. 46]: [cantata]  / Ludwig van Beethoven   Fraser G10/22

Adelaide [Op. 46]: [cantata]  / Ludwig van Beethoven   Fraser L04/8

Mazzinghi, Joseph (1765-1844) Anglo-Italian

Flora's wreath (pastoral ballad)  / Joseph Mazzinghi   Leith Hall LHM 08/21

See from the ocean rising: duet  / Joseph Mazzinghi   Leith Hall LHM 08/26

Ye shepherds tell me: song  / Joseph Mazzinghi   Leith Hall LHM 08/23

Mazzolà, Caterino (1745-1806) Italian

Ah! Perdona al primo affetto: duet  / W A Mozart   Leith Hall LHM 08/34

Deh! per questo istante solo: rondo  / Giambattista Cimador (arr. )   Fraser E03/21

Deh! per questo istante solo: aria  / W A Mozart   Fraser G11/31

Deh! prendi un dolce amplesso: duet  / W A Mozart   Fraser G05/7

Torna di Tito a lato: aria  / Giambattista Cimador (arr. )   Fraser E03/22

Meares, Richard (1647-1725) English

Medulla musicae, vol. 1: songs  / George Frideric Handel   Fyvie FLC-19

Mélesville [pseud.] (1787-1865) French

Gentil sembiante che in sen mi movi: tenor aria   / Ferdinand Hérold   Drum Dr 36/3

Mendes, Moses (d.1758) Anglo-Jewish

Ask if yon damask rose be sweet: air  / J B Sale (arr. )   Drum Dr 37/14

What tho' I trace: aria  / William Horsley (arr. )   Drum Dr 38/2

Merelli, Bartolomeo (1794-1879) Italian

Presso un ruscello limpido: romance  / Nicola Vaccai   Newhailes NH 40/8

Metastasio, Pietro (1698-1782) Italian

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

Ah! Perdona al primo affetto: duet  / W A Mozart   Leith Hall LHM 08/34

Deh! per questo istante solo: rondo  / Giambattista Cimador (arr. )   Fraser E03/21

È pena troppo barbara: nocturne for 2 voices  / Louis Niedermeyer   Drum Dr 06/31

Hymn of Eve: voc. score  / Thomas Arne   Brodie Br 28/10

In infancy our hopes and fears: song  / Thomas Arne   Drum Dr 28/27

Lai d'amore: arietta  / Aristide Verri   Fyvie FLC-17/38

Non giova il sospirar: canzonetta venziana  / Gaetano Donizetti   Fraser G11/9

Ogni zeffiro che spira: canzoncina  / Nicola Vaccai   Newhailes NH 63/14

Ombre amene, amiche piante: duettino notturno (arietta)  / Venanzio Rauzzini   Newhailes NH 65/13

Per pietà, bell' idol mio: voice with flute and harp  / Federici Benelli   Fraser E03/8

Quando miro quel bel ciglio (Though I watch the light that dances): [canzonetta]  / W A Mozart   Fraser G11/32

Quando miro quel bel ciglio : canzonetta  / W A Mozart   Fyvie FLC-17/26

Quanto costa il tuo delitto: coro sacro  / Aristide Verri   Fyvie FLC-16/29

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

Six favourite canzonets and an elegy on the death of Mr. Shenstone  / William Leeves   Fraser B02/2

Six favourite Italian songs, Three from Metastasio, three from Anacreonte  / Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari   Fraser C21/5

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

Titus (La Clemenza di Tito): opera   / W A Mozart   Newhailes NH 08

Torna di Tito a lato: aria  / Giambattista Cimador (arr. )   Fraser E03/22

Trova un dol mia bella Clori: canzonetta  / Mariano de Ledesma   Fyvie FLC-17/36

Vanne o rosa fortunata: arietta for mez.  / Vincenzo Bellini   Drum Dr 34/17

Milton, John (1608-1674) English

By dimpled brook and fountain brim  / Thomas Arne   Fraser L05/12

Eve's lamentation: [song]  / Mathew Peter King   Fraser L05/3

The Hymn of Adam and Eve: voc. duet  / Johann Ernst Galliard   Fraser D14

Let me wander not unseen: aria  / W H Callcott (arr. )   Fraser L05/5

Let me wander, not unseen : aria  / George Frideric Handel   Drum Dr 05/8

Let the bright seraphim: aria  / Edward Loder (arr. )   Drum Dr 41/12

The Morning Hymn: cantata  / Philip Hart   Newhailes NH 27/4

The occasional oratorio: in score  / George Frideric Handel   Brodie Br 10

Samson, a sacred oratorio: in score  / George Frideric Handel   Brodie Br 11

Sweet bird (On golden Wing): recit. & aria  / George Frideric Handel   Drum Dr 08/7

Mold, Charles (19th c.) English

The swallows: song  / Franz Abt   Newhailes NH 77/46

Moncrieff, William Thomas (1794-1857) English

The plain gold ring, 3rd ed.: song (adapted from Weber)  / Anon. (arr. )   Drum Dr 21/35

Montgomery, James (1771-1854) Scottish

Meet again!: duet  / Henry Bishop   Newhailes NH 42/5

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

Moore, Edward (1712-1757) English

Together let us range the fields: duet  / William Boyce   Drum Dr 08/13

Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) English

Ah! Then, dearest Ellen, I'll love you no more: ballad  / John Stevenson   Leith Hall LHM 08/10

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

Bendemeers stream: ballad  / John Fane   Drum Dr 26/34

Bendemeers stream: ballad  / John Fane   Fraser G12/15

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

Farewell! But, whenever you welcome the hour (by Thomas Moore): voice & piano  / John Stevenson (arr. )   Drum Dr 32/9

Farewell Bessy: voice & piano  / Thomas Moore   Drum Dr 32/10

Friend of my soul: song  / Thomas Moore   Fraser L08/5

Go where glory waits thee: song  / George Alexander Macfarren (arr. )   Fraser L08/6

Good night: song  / John Whitaker   Drum Dr 03/14

Good night! : a ballad  / Thomas Moore   Drum Dr 10/13

Has sorrow thy young days shaded: song  / John Stevenson   Fraser L08/7

Has sorrow thy young days shaded: song  / John Stevenson (arr. )   Drum Dr 35/17

Her last words at parting: ballad  / Thomas Moore   Fraser L08/8

Here's the bower: ballad for (medium) voice & piano  / Thomas Moore   Newhailes NH 61/22

I love but thee!: ballad  / Thomas Moore   Fyvie FLC-17/4

I saw from the beach: song  / John Stevenson (arr. )   Fraser L08/9

I'd mourn the hopes: song  / John Stevenson (arr. )   Drum Dr 32/14

Love, my Mary dwells with thee: duet  / John Stevenson   Drum Dr 03/36

Love, my Mary dwells with thee: duet  / John Stevenson   Leith Hall LHM 08/25

The maid of Marlivale: ballad  / John Stevenson   Drum Dr 22/17

The meeting of the waters: song  / John Stevenson (arr. )   Fraser G12/17

Namouna's Song in Lalla Rookh  / John Clarke-Whitfeld   Drum Dr 33/32

No, not more welcome: song  / John Stevenson (arr. )   Drum Dr 35/16

Oh! Fair as the sea flower: ballad  / Thomas Welsh   Newhailes NH 61/20

Oh! Remember the time: Spanish air  / Thomas Moore   Newhailes NH 65/17

Oh! Remember the time: Spanish air  / Thomas Moore   Drum Dr 05/17

Oh! Why should the girl of my soul be in tears?: song  / Thomas Moore   Leith Hall LHM 08/16

Rose! thou art the sweetest flower: ballad  / Thomas Cooke (arr. )   Fraser G12/12

A selection of Irish melodies, vol. 1  / John Stevenson (arr. )   Drum Dr 10/1

A selection of Irish melodies, vol. 2  / John Stevenson (arr. )   Drum Dr 10/2

A selection of popular national airs, no. 1  / John Stevenson (arr. )   Drum Dr 12/1

A selection of popular national airs, no. 1  / John Stevenson (arr. )   Fyvie FLC-14

A selection of popular national airs, no. 2  / Henry Bishop (arr. )   Drum Dr 12/2

A selection of popular national airs, no. 2  / Henry Bishop (arr. )   Fyvie FLC-15

The separation: ballad  / T T Magrath   Drum Dr 12/24

Take hence the bowl: air  / Henry Bishop (arr. )   Fraser L08/17

They tell me thou'rt the favour'd guest: ballad  / Michael Balfe   Newhailes NH 42/11

They tell me thou'rt the favour'd guest: ballad  / Michael Balfe   Drum Dr 35/7

The Tyrolese song of liberty, a national air: for (high) voice & piano  / Thomas Moore   Newhailes NH 65/16

When Time was entwining the garland of years: glee for 3 equal voices  / J W Callcott   Fraser K01/8

Wilt thou say farewell, Love : duet with harp  / Henry Bishop (arr. )   Fyvie FLC-26/8

Wilt thou say farewell, Love: ballad  / Thomas Moore   Leith Hall LHM 08/9

The woodpecker: ballad  / Michael Kelly   Drum Dr 05/11

Morell, Thomas (1703-1784) English

Alcides : an English opera in score  / George Frideric Handel   Brodie Br 09/2

Angels ever bright and fair: song  / George Frideric Handel   Drum Dr 10/12

The choice of Hercules  / George Frideric Handel   Brodie Br 09/1

Deeper, and deeper still [and] Waft her, angels!: recit. & aria  / Thomas Greatorex (arr. )   Drum Dr 32/8

Farewell ye limpid streams: air  / George Frideric Handel   Drum Dr 10/9

O lovely peace: for piano  / William Horsley (arr. )   Drum Dr 45/32

Oh had I Jubal's lyre : air with piano  / Edward Loder (arr. )   Drum Dr 41/11

Oh had I Jubal's lyre: air with piano  / Osmond Saffery (arr. )   Drum Dr 32/23

Pleasure, my former ways resigning: song  / George Frideric Handel   Drum Dr 08/11

There the brisk sparkling nectar: recit. & air  / Thomas Greatorex (arr. )   Drum Dr 45/19

Waft her angels: song  / George Frideric Handel   Fraser C17/6

Morris, George Pope (1802-1864) American

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

Morton, Thomas (1764-1838) English

Blow, gentle gales: glee for 3 voices  / Henry Bishop   Fraser G13/1

Blow, gentle gales: glee for 3 voices  / Henry Bishop   Fraser G12/13

Blow, gentle gales : glee for 5 voices  / Henry Bishop   Newhailes NH 41/33

Mould, Jacob Wrey (1825-1886) English

The song of the chimes (Glockengeläute)  / Gustav Hölzel   Drum Dr 37/38

The standard bearer (Die Fahnenwacht): song  / Peter Josef von Lindpaintner   Drum Dr 37/32

Moulds, John (18th-19th c.) English

She dropped a tear: sea song  / John Moulds   Drum Dr 03/17

Müller, Wilhelm (1794-1827) German

Die Post (La poste): song  / Franz Schubert   Drum Dr 41/2

The postman's horn is sounding! (Die Post): song  / Franz Schubert   Fyvie FLC-17/47

148 works from All Collections by 37 song writers &c with surname beginning 'M'