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.
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Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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