[scots-l] George the IV and his Welcome

[Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg]

I know I am getting really obscure here, but does anyone happen to have
Duncan McKercher's 2nd or 3rd collections?  (I have the 1st and find it
excellent.)  I am just wondering whether "His Majesty's Welcome to
Scotland" is the same tune as [King] George the IVth strathspey and whether
it is attributed to Daniel Menzies as King George the IVth is in The Skye
Collection.  The two have the same theme code (thanks, Charlie!) so it all
seems quite likely.  Also, McKercher had a connection with the Menzies
family.  I was beginning to think that Keith Norman MacDonald just copied
tunes out of Joseph Lowe's collection for The Skye Collection, but Lowe
didn't givew any composer information about George IV.

(Sometimes I wonder what world I am living in where I can get excited about
such a ridiculous detail!  It's just that it's such a chestnut of a tune!)

- Kate D.

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Kate Dunlay & David Greenberg
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
http://www.total.net/~dungreen


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