Asiatic
Six for Gold track 3
Like Round about the Maypole this tune was composed by John Baptist Malchair (1729-1812), leader of the band at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford. They are contained in a handwritten manuscript in the Bodleian library entitled Tunes composed by John Malchair. This book was compiled by Malchair’s younger friend and amanuensis William Crotch, who added pianoforte arrangements to some of the tunes.
Of Asiatic, he noted “The last I wrote for him, Dec 3rd 1799”.
Asiatic - sheet music (PDF)
paired with Round about the Maypole