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Lady Dorothea Ruggles-Brise

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30: 179: 144:, the great Scottish fiddler, composer and music publisher, and she grew up with a lifelong interest in, and later became a great authority on, and collector of, Scottish traditional music. Even in her youth, she had started to compile a collection of little-known Scottish melodies, and would perform these herself. 198:
of Inver, he refused to sell it to her, insisting she take it instead as a gift. When she demurred, he put it on the fire to force her to accept it. This, along with the rest of her personal collection, some 600 volumes, is now known as the Atholl Collection, and housed in the A.K. Bell Library in
163:. She continued her interest in Scottish music, with a particular interest in its history. In 1904, after the death of John Glen, an Edinburgh music publisher, she acquired his extensive music collection, and placed it on loan with the 195: 175:
in France in 1914. It contains some 900 items, bound in 412 volumes, including 6 manuscripts. Many of the items of this collection have been digitised.
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The Atholl Collection Catalogue: 300 years of Scottish Music and Poetry. Dr. Sheila M. Douglas, Perth and Kinross Libraries, 1999,
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music from the 18th century. This manuscript is slightly scorched; when she offered to buy it from its previous owner,
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The Scots Fiddle: (Vol 1) Tunes, Tales & Traditions of the North-East & Central Highlands
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She also built an extensive music collection of her own, which included the important
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Ewan, Elizabeth L.; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Sian; Pipes, Rose (27 June 2007).
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Example of the music by William Dixon which she saved - modern facsimile
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Perth. A catalogue of all the music in the collection is available.
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Lady Dorothea Louisa Stewart-Murray was born in 1866 to
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Index


Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise
John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl
7th Duke of Atholl
John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl
Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet
Niel Gow
Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise
Grenadier Guards
Polesden Lacey
Atholl Highlanders
British Museum
National Library of Scotland
Black Watch

William Dixon manuscript
Border pipe
Charles Macintosh
Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
ISBN
978-0-7486-2660-1
"Lady Dorothea Louisa Stewart-Murray, Lady Ruggles-Brise (1866-1937)"
The Scots Fiddle: (Vol 1) Tunes, Tales & Traditions of the North-East & Central Highlands
ISBN
9781906476977
"Highland Music Trust - The Glen Collection - Biographies"
"Glen Collection of printed music"
"The Glasgow Herald"
"Special collections - Perth & Kinross Council"
the original

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