Music at The Mitchell - Glasgow Life

Audio Collection: a small collection of items on cd, cassette and vinyl for listening to in the library.
Genres covered include: classical, opera, musicals and items of Scottish interest. A card index is
available for this collection.
All available on Level 4
Audio items for loan can be accessed from Leisure and Lifestyle, on the ground floor of
The Mitchell.
Music Collections
Kidson Collection: 18th and 19th century British music including song, country dance, ballad operas
and instrumental tutors. More than 5,000 items collected by Frank Kidson (1855-1926).
Moody Manners: the working library of the Moody-Manners Opera Company which toured Britain
and South Africa in the early years of the 20 th century. Includes full scores/parts and vocal scores of
operas that were in the repertoire at the time.
Dunedin Collection: the gift of the Dunedin Association of the 1940s comprising sheet music and
vocal scores of works by Scottish composers such as Alexander C. MacKenzie and Donald F. Tovey.
The Early History of the Glasgow Choral Union, 1855–1935: a collection of 24 volumes in
manuscript by Robert Craig. The Glasgow Choral Union later became the Scottish National Orchestra.
Archives ref: TD 1556
There is a collection of manuscript material by composers such as Learmont Drysdale, William Milne,
Liddell Peddieson and Francis George Scott.
A collection of concert/opera programmes including sets of SNO (Scottish National Orchestra)
programmes until 1988 and Scottish Opera Programmes from 1960s onwards.
All available on Level 2
Song Sheet Collections
Joe Irvine Collection: chiefly Victorian and Edwardian sheet music with some dance band
arrangements of the 1920s, 30s and 40s (16,000 items).
Cedric Thorpe Davie Collection: Victorian and Edwardian sheet music (3,000 items
STV Collection: A 6000 song sheets and 1000 song albums donated to the Mitchell by Scottish
Television rich in music of the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
All available on Level 2