| Administrative History | Gavin Greig was born in 1856 and was schoolmaster at Whitehill, New Deer, Aberdeenshire. From 1903 he collaborated with the Reverend James Bruce Duncan in the recording of an extensive collection of folksong and ballad MSS, as part of a publication project with the New Spalding Club. Both men died before the project's completion and the work was carried on by the local journalist Alexander Keith and local bibliophile William Walker. Some of Greig-Duncan's collected material was published in 'Last Leaves of the Traditional Ballads and Ballad Airs' (1925) but it was not until the twenty-first century that the complete Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection of 3,500 texts and 3,300 tunes was published in a joint venture between Edinburgh Mercat Press and Aberdeen University. |
| Description | Musical compositions; some notes by Greig's collaborator, the Reverend James Duncan Bruce.
MS 701-703 Greig, G. Folk-songs. Index to words and tunes, 3 Vols.
MS 704 Greig, G. Folk music. Index. Compiled by W. Walker.
MS 705-708 Greig, G. Folk music, 4 Vols.
MS 709-710 Greig, G. Folk-songs. Words. Index. Compiled by W.W., 2 Vols.
MS 711-774 Greig, G. Folk-songs. Words, 64 Vols.
MS 775 Greig, G. Folk-songs of the North. Collected 1906. Book 1.
MS 776-780 Greig, G. Traditional versions of old ballads. 5 Vols.
MS 781-784 Greig, G. Transcripts of old Scottish ballads and songs. 4 books.
MS 785 Duncan, J.B. & Greig, G. Traditional ballad tunes. Collected 1913.
MS 786 Duncan, J.B. Folk-song airs of the North-East.
MS 787 Duncan, J.B. Folk-song airs of the North-East. Complete list of contents. Compiled by W. Walker.
MS 788 Duncan, J.B. Folk-song words belonging to the North-East.
MS 789 Duncan, J.B. Folk-song words belonging to the North-East. Index. Compiled by W. Walker.
MS 790/1-3 Greig, G. Greig and Duncan, manuscripts , 6 boxes |