There is a character ‘Little Taffline’ in T. Dibdin’s St. David’s Day, music composed and compiled by Attwood.  There is another setting said to be ‘composed by J. Parry,’ but it is merely an altered form of the original.

LOVELY PEG (D. & S. 10)

See pp. 117-119.

MARSEILLAISE (M.C. 15, E.D. 2, L.D. 2)

Rouget de Lisle.

For brief history see The Choir (Nov., 1911)

MASANIELLO (S.B.T. 9)

Opera by Auber.

See p. 26.

MAY WE NE’ER WANT A FRIEND (D. & S. 15)

See ‘When the first dawn of reason.’

MEN OF PROMETHEUS (S.B.T. 9)

See p. 26.

This was the name given to the first edition of Beethoven’s ballet music to Prometheus, composed in 1800.

MISS WACKLES, I BELIEVED YOU TRUE (O.C.S. 8)

‘Mary, I believed thee true,’ Moore (one of his ’Juvenile Poems’).

    Mary, I believed thee true,
      And I was blest in so believing,
    But now I mourn that e’er I knew
      A girl so fair and so deceiving!

It has been suggested that these words were adapted and sung to the Scotch air ‘Gala Water.’

MY BOAT IS ON THE SHORE (G.S.) (D.C. 54, Letters)

Words by Lord Byron. Bishop.

See p. 12.

Also set by W. Cratherne.

MY FEELINGS I SMOTHER (O.C.S. 36)

See ‘We met.’

MY HEART’S IN THE HIGHLANDS (O.C.S. 2, S.B.S. 2)

Words partly by Burns.

In Captain Fraser’s Airs Peculiar to the Scottish Highlands, 1816.

There is a parody by Dickens (see Forster’s Life, ch. 8).

NEVER LEAVE OFF DANCING (D.C. 41)

Said to be the subject of a French song.

NO MALICE TO DREAD, SIR (O.M.F.)

See p. 134.

NON NOBIS (S.B.S. 19)

This celebrated canon, by Byrd, has been performed at public dinners from time immemorial.  It also used to be performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.

NOW’S THE DAY, AND NOW’S THE HOUR (D.C. 54)

Verse 2 of ‘Scots, Wha Hae’ (Burns).