A Collection of Marches & Quicksteps, Strathspeys & Reels
by Calvert, Thomas
Tunes list
- God save the King. (p. 1)
- O'er the Moor for a' that. (p. 1)
- The Berwickshire Yeomanry's March. (p. 2)
- The Lasses of the West. (p. 2)
- The Lasses of Fisheraw. (p. 2)
- The Kelso Volunteers Quick Step. (p. 3)
- The Kelso Volunteers March. (p. 3)
- Trip to Kelso. (p. 4)
- The Quick Step (p. 4)
- The Roxburghshire Cavalry Yeomanrys March (p. 4)
- Miss Susanna Rentons Reel. (p. 5)
- The Lady's Delight. (p. 5)
- Musical Society's March. (p. 6)
- Roxburgh Castle. (p. 6)
- The Lasses of the Border. (p. 6)
- Mrs Garden of Troups. Strathspey. (p. 6)
- Babby's Fancy. (p. 7)
- Miss Heron of Heron's Reel. (p. 7)
- Boyne Water. (p. 7)
- Mrs Keir of Millbank's Strathspey. (p. 8)
- Mrs Rutherford of Egerston. (p. 8)
- Mrs Keir of Millbank's Reel. (p. 8)
- Hume Castle. (p. 9)
- The Hernite. (p. 9)
- Mr Hogert's Hornpipe. (p. 9)
- Second to the White Cockade. (p. 9)
- The Charlote Cottilion. (p. 10)
- Banks of Alan. (p. 10)
- Mrs Leis Hornpipe. (p. 10)
- Tivot Bridge. (p. 11)
- Lord Nelson. (p. 11)
- Sir Hendry's Strathspey. (p. 11)
- Galshils Gray. (p. 12)
- The Poor Soldier. (p. 12)
- Ebdens Quick Step. (p. 12)
- Cornhill Dance. (p. 12)
- Berwick Assembly. (p. 13)
- Quick Step. (p. 13)
- Cubie March. (p. 13)
- The three Captains. (p. 14)
- The Loyal Farmer. (p. 14)
- A Favourite German Air. (p. 14)
- Dainty Davie. (p. 15)
- The Scotch Militia. (p. 15)
- Off Shew Goyes. (p. 15)
- Lord Cornwallis, or Rodneys March. (p. 16)
- The Theater. (p. 16)
- The Fall of Paris. (p. 17)
- The Graces. (p. 18)
- Street March. (p. 18)
- Newcastle Volunteers Quick Step. (p. 18)
- Soldier's Frolick. (p. 19)
- Kelso Bowlingreen. (p. 19)
- Shake yourselfe. Irish. (p. 19)
- The Downshire, Camperdown, Quick Step. (p. 20)
- The Farmers of the Border. (p. 20)
- A Second to the Royal Quick Step. (p. 21)
- Mr Marshall's Grand Minuet. (p. 21)
- The tide come in. (p. 22)
- The Fishers Rant or the Lasses of Ancrum. (p. 22)
- The Essex Band. (p. 22)
Copy details
Publisher
Kelso, Thomas Calvert
Printer
Printed for the author
Seller
To be had at N Stewart, 37 South Bridge St, Edinburgh And at Thomas Calvert Musician Kelso Where may be had a Variety of Music and Instruments, Instruments lent out Tun'd and Repaired. Price 5/
Edition
[1st]
Date
[1799]
Library
A K Bell Library, Perth (GB-P)
Shelfmark
Bf27
Description
The book contains a mix of marches, tunes of local interest, country dances and cottilions, in a variety of settings, including several clearly for piano with violin accompaniment, with 3 parts simply marked '1st', '2d' and 'Bass'. BUCEM dates this as c.1790, whilst SBTI suggests 1793-1802. Kidson noted inside the GB-Gm copy that the endpaper is watermarked 1791, and Glen noted that N. Stewart's address was 37 South Bridge Street from 1792-1802. However, the Battle of Camperdown was in October 1797, and so the naming of 'The Downshire Camperdown Quick Step' would suggest a date closer to 1799, as pencilled on the GB-P copy.
Notes
Opening note on p.1: 'To the Performer; on the Violoncello; - Where the Basses is set double, you may take the upper or lower Octave; but the lower is the best, as you cannot Easily, take them both at all times. To the Performer; on the Violin; or German Flute, - Where the Notes are Chorded, you will observe to play the uppermost Notes. To the Performer on the Harpsicord or Piano Forte; - you may add Double Notes fifths & sixths at your own pleasure, and where the Basses are set single, you may add an Octave above, or below, for filling up the Instrument.' There follows a diatonic fingering chart for violin, and then the first piece 'God Save the King'. A slightly altered 'Ash Grove' appears as 'A Favourite German Air'. The basses are in several styles: repeated octaves, Alberti basses, and simple repetitive lines.
Copy notes
Dated 1799 in pencil. Some water damage to copy.
Pages
22 p
Orientation
Portrait
Dimensions
36 x 26
RISM
C255
Gore
C7
Biographical info
Calvert, a Kelso musician who also loaned instruments, was active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Other locations
GB-A Hend inst Cal c
GB-Lbl g.1780.nn.(18.)
GB-Gm M8710 / 786.45 (small parts of a few page corners missing)
GB-En Glen 316