Tune from the Highland reel

Name:

Shield, William, 1748-1829; Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791

Date:

1790s

Provenance:

Heineken, M. E. (inscription); Hopkinson, Edward Jr. (donor); Hopkinson, Francis; Hopkinson, Joseph; Hopkinson, Oliver

Subject:

Piano music, Arranged; Harpsichord music, Arranged; Operas -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with piano; Music -- Manuscripts

Resource Type:

Still Image

Form/Genre:

Vocal scores; excerpts; manuscripts (documents); scores (documents for music)

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered page of manuscript music; 31 cm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms., ink.; Arr. for piano or harpsichord.; From the Highland reel, music by William Shields.; Based on Skelty's song Boys, when I play, cry oh crimini.; Published as: Scots air, 1796.; With: Moller & Capron's monthly numbers. Philadelphia : printed for Moller & Capron, [1793] (no. 29 of 30 items); From the library of the Francis Hopkinson family -- Richards, Caroline. An eighteenth century music collection -- Thesis (M.A.) Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1968.; Photocopies of individual items bound in v. 5 in suppl. 1.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Folio M1.A11 .H6 v. 5

Collection:

Hopkinson collection of music