As well as the more familiar composers James Hook and Thomas Arne (who wrote Rule Britannia) this collection of 12 English melodies includes tunes by the less well known William Reeve William Shieldand Thomas Arne's son Michael. Charles Dibdin's 'Tom Bowling' which Sir Henry Wood worked into his 'Fantasia on British Sea Songs' - a corner stone of the Last Night of the Proms is also here.The Grade 2 selection is 'Sweet Patty' by William Reeve.
