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“The Mid-Watch” was printed in songsters such as as '''Cecilia; or, The British Songster''' (Edinburgh, 1782), where it was recorded that it was sung by Mr. Bannister. The song proved popular and was performed by Mr. Arrowsmith at Vauxhall in 1790, and in 1794 it was introduced into a musical entertainment named '''The Glorious First of June'''. The piece was topical and put together rapidly by playwright Richard Sheridan and others, with music arragned by Stephen Storace, for relief of the widows and orphans of the sailors killed in Lord Howe’s action on the first of June, 1794. It was staged at Drury Lane theatre that year and met with enough success for repeat performances. | “The Mid-Watch” was printed in songsters such as as '''Cecilia; or, The British Songster''' (Edinburgh, 1782), where it was recorded that it was sung by Mr. Bannister. The song proved popular and was performed by Mr. Arrowsmith at Vauxhall in 1790, and in 1794 it was introduced into a musical entertainment named '''The Glorious First of June'''. The piece was topical and put together rapidly by playwright Richard Sheridan and others, with music arragned by Stephen Storace, for relief of the widows and orphans of the sailors killed in Lord Howe’s action on the first of June, 1794. It was staged at Drury Lane theatre that year and met with enough success for repeat performances. | ||
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MID WATCH. English, Air (whole time ). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Mid Watch" is a song with words by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and music by Thomas Linley, his father-in-law. Baring-Gould remarked:
It was introduced into his pantomime of Robinson Crusoe, 1800[1]. Sheridan happened to call in at the theatre one day and found the stage manager at his wits’ end what to do, as there was no time between the conclusion of one scene for the setting of another. It was suggested to Sheridan that a song if introduced there might afford the stage carpenters the requisite time for scene shifting. He at once sat down at the prompter’s table on the stage, and wrote on the back of the play -bill the ballad of ‘The Midnight Watch,’ which Linley thereupon set to music.
“The Mid-Watch” was printed in songsters such as as Cecilia; or, The British Songster (Edinburgh, 1782), where it was recorded that it was sung by Mr. Bannister. The song proved popular and was performed by Mr. Arrowsmith at Vauxhall in 1790, and in 1794 it was introduced into a musical entertainment named The Glorious First of June. The piece was topical and put together rapidly by playwright Richard Sheridan and others, with music arragned by Stephen Storace, for relief of the widows and orphans of the sailors killed in Lord Howe’s action on the first of June, 1794. It was staged at Drury Lane theatre that year and met with enough success for repeat performances.
- ↑ Robinson Crusoe was actually first staged in 1781, not 1800.