Annotation:Prince of Tunis (The)
X:1 T:Prince of Tunis, The M:C L:1/8 R:Country Dance (?) Q:"Slow" B:James Aird – Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3 (Glasgow, 1788, No. 441, p. 172) N:”Humbly dedicated to the Volunteers and Defensive Bands of Great Britain and Ireland” Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G D|G3A B>AB>d|e2A2A3B|G3A B>AB>d|e3f g>ab>a| g2e2 e>gf>e|d<BA>B e3g|d3B c<BA>G|E2G2G3:| |:d|g3a b<ag>f|e2 (fg) {e}d2 cB|e3g d<BA>G|E2A2 A>cB>A| G3A B>AB>d|e3f {a}g2 (fe)|d>edB c>BA>G|E2G2G3:|]
PRINCE OF TUNIS, THE. Scottish, Air (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Prince of Tunis was a romantic tragedy by Henry Mackenzie (1745–1831) first performed in Edinburgh in 1773. It followed on the success of his novel, The Man of Feeling, published in 1771. His other novels, The Man of the World and Julia de Roubigne were also published in the 1770s. He was well-known in his day for managing the periodicals The Mirror and The Lounger. Mackenzie was an early supporter of Sir Walter Scott, the latter writing of him when MacKenzie was eighty: "H.M. is as alert as a contracting tailor's needle in every sort of business, a politician and a sportsman, shoots and fishes in a sort even to this day, and is the life of the company with anecdote and fun."
