Round about the Maypole and Asiatic are by our old friend 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”.

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