[scots-l] Kerr's etc

[Nigel Gatherer]

David Francis wrote:

 Howking around in some old piles of sheet music I came across a book
 in Merrie Melodies format called 'Kerr's Pretty Tunes of All
 Nations', which I'd never heard of before.  There are a lot of
 Scottish tunes in it.  Anyone else encountered that one?

There was a series of twelve books which Kerr's published in the c1870s
which comprised:

Book  1: Kerr's First Collection of Merry Melodies *
Book  2: Kerr's Second Collection of Merry Melodies *
Book  3: Kerr's Collection of Pretty Tunes of All Nations
Book  4: Kerr's Popular Dance Music for Violin 
Book  5: Kerr's Collection of Duets for Two Violins
Book  6: Kerr's Collection of Pretty Tunes of All Nations arr. with
 Variations *
Book  7: Playel's Duets for Two Violins
Book  8: Kerr's Latest Dance Music for Violin
Book  9: Kerr's Collection of Reels and Strathspeys
Book 10: Kerr's Third Collection of Merry Melodies *
Book 11: Kerr's Fourth Collection of Merry Melodies *
Book 12: Kerr's Collection of Popular Tunes of All Nations

Books 1, 2, 10 and 11 are the most famous Merry Melodies series, still
available today, and together they comprise a tremendous collection of
Scottish dance music, as well as hornpipes, Irish jigs and reels, and
so on.

Book 6 has 34 tunes, possibly taken from Book 3, all treated with
variations by Tom Howard (who is featured in Bk 1 with the tune Tom
Howard's Hornpipe). 

Book 9 is the violin version of Kerr's Collection of Reels and
Strathspeys for the Piano.

* I have books 1,2, 6, 10, and 11, and I have the piano version of book
9. I've never encountered any of the others, and I'd be most interested
to see them.

-- 
Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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Re: [scots-l] Kerr's etc

[Jack Campin]

 Howking around in some old piles of sheet music I came across a book
 in Merrie Melodies format called 'Kerr's Pretty Tunes of All Nations',
 which I'd never heard of before.  There are a lot of Scottish tunes
 in it.  Anyone else encountered that one?

I use a couple of things from it in my Embro, Embro CD-ROM.  It's
like the Odd Foreign Stuff pages at the back of the Merry Melodies
books, only more so.  It sets the same sort of puzzle as the dance-
tune sequencing I posted about before: how was it *used*?  It must
have had a specific purpose and market, but what on earth could it
have been?

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[scots-l] Kerr's etc

[David Francis]

Howking around in some old piles of sheet music I came across a book in
Merrie Melodies format called 'Kerr's Pretty Tunes of All Nations', which
I'd never heard of before.  There are a lot of Scottish tunes in it.  Anyone
else encountered that one?

Dave Francis
(44) (0)131 669 8824



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