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The Mathematician
ID JSS0203
Title The Mathematician
Document Reference MS2726/204
Format 238 x 295 mm
Medium Handwritten manuscript on music manuscript paper
Item Type Manuscript
Subject Music, Scottish, Violin, Hornpipe
Item Description Manuscript in Skinner's hand of 'Hornpipe "The Mathematician". Note on stave 2: 'To Engraver = Notes colliding went down a bit - S.S.' After the last bar he notes a correction: ''see blurred passage [third last bar] here's the reading [inserts music example].' Under the music is 'To Dr Clark, Cairo - Late of Aberdeen University'. Compare this with the version at JSS0618 and note the similarities to The Forth Brig (JSS0201).
Creator James Scott Skinner
Creator Manuscript James Scott Skinner
Time Period 1890-1900's
Relationships JSS0618, JSS0201
Location University of Aberdeen
Collection Name Harp & Claymore
Copyright http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/documents/copyright

 

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