ANON MS(Rival Knights)
THE RIVAL KNIGHTS MS Anonymous Date - ca1810.
In a private collection. Origin unknown.
Manuscript tunebook containing fashionable dance tunes of the early 19thC, many Scottish. All tunes have cello accompaniment.
The name of the anonymous collection is arbitrarily chosen from a tune within it. Dated by the absence of quadrille tunes and the presence of a tune from the following:- The Rival Knights; or, the Fortunate Woodlander: A French Romance. London: Printed and Published by J. Lee, 24, Half Moon Street, Bishopsgate Without, c. 1805.
Ally Croaker 84
Andrew Carey 3
Blue Beard,aka Tink-a-Tink 17
Boulanger 75
Bugle Horn, The 44
Caledonian Hunt, The 78
Cammeronian's Rant, The 26
Camp de Mars 100
Campbell has got his wife again 39
Colonel Small's Strathspey 93
Count Wartensleben 5
College Hornpipe, The 31
Colonel Bain's Reel 33
Colonel Montgomery's Strathspey 65
Cory Owen 71
Cory Owen 114
Countess of Sutherland's Reel 35
Cummolun(Cumberland?) 6
Del Caro's Hornpipe 83
Devil Among the Taylors, The 1
Devil & No Devil 89
Drops of Brandy, aka 6
Duke of Gordon's Birthday 23
Duke of York's Cotillon 70
Dusty Miller, The 4
Ellena Rashe? 112
Fife Hunt, The 38
Garthlands Reel 13
Gary Owen, aka 71
Gary Owen, aka 114
General Toast, The 102
Go to the Devil and Shake Y'self80
Haunted Tower, The 50
Highland Dance, The 57
Hillisborg's Reel 54
I'll Make You be Fain .... 41
Irish Washerwoman, The 108
Isle of Sky 37
Jenny Sutton 86
Kennedy's Reel 85
King Street Assembly, The 90
La Belle Isabelle 74
Lads & Lasses 58
Lady Gardener's Reel 16
Lady Mary Ramsay's Strathspey 24
Lady Lucy Ramsey's Favourite 59
Lady Shaftesbury's Delight 81
Little House Under the Hill,The115
Little Peggy's Love 56
Loch Errick Side 104
Lord Eglinton's Reel 22
Lord Macdonald's Reel 46
Lord Seymour's Reel 60
Lucy Campbell's Delight 19
Madame Hillingsborg's Reel,aka 54
Miss Hamilton's Fancy 97
Moll in the Wad 15
Money Musk 45
Money in Both Pockets 107
Morgan Rattler 51
Marshall's Fancy 53
Marquis of Lorn's Strathspey 64
Mrs. Baird's Reel 40
Mrs. Flemings' Strathspey 88
Mrs. Mairn's Jigg 9
Mrs. Murry's Reel 67
Mullong's Jigg 101
Opera Reel, The 90
Over the Hills and Far Away 62
Perthshire Hunt 68
Plaid, The 7
Rival Knights, The 99
Royal Quickstep, The 109
Ruffian's Rant Strathspey, The 11
Savage Dance, The 103
Sir David Hunter of Blair 110
Sir Roger de Coverly 105
Sitwell's fancy 73
Soldier's Joy, The 29
Spa Dance 96
Speed the Plough 111
Sprigs of Laurel 43
Tartar's Rant, The 13
Tink-a-Tink, aka 17
Weymouth Cotillion, The 70
West's Hornpipe 92
What a Beau Your Granny Was 95
White Cockade, The 48