>Is anyone familiar with John Watlen's 1798 2nd collection, inscribed "The >Celebrated Circus Tunes performed at Edinburgh this Season..."
I've seen it and I photocopied some pages from it. I didn't know exactly what they meant by circus -- what we mean now? The tunes are marked "as danced by..." and "as performed by..." I just imagined that the tunes were for character and hornpipe dances on the stage. The tunes don't seem very interesting. - Kate D. -- Kate Dunlay & David Greenberg Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada http://www.total.net/~dungreen Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
