To Tom Mc Rae: Tell me more about "Jeannie Deans". In Australia in 1859 a
local composer wrote a song called 'Jeannie Deans'. His unlikely name was
Henry Marmaduke Wilson. It was written especially for the local prima
donna Marie Carandini(nee Burgess). Scottish-type songs were especially
popular in colonial Australia, almost as popular as Irish ones but I'm not
sure that this was because of any strong Jacobite influence. These songs
you mention all sound like folk songs, or were they just songs in the
vernacular of the times?
You see how ignorant I am about Scottish music. Had no idea it was such a
'hotbed' of drawingroom music-making. I wonder how the Lord Provost's
offerings of 1820 rated beside Schubert lieder? Can't tell of course if
you can't hear it. Ann
Ann Beedell
Humanities
Griffith University, Q. Australia 4111
A.Beedell@hum.gu.edu.au