{"id":1138,"date":"2015-03-11T10:50:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T10:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2015-03-11T11:54:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T11:54:04","slug":"charles-bayne-teacher-dancing-dundee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2015\/03\/11\/charles-bayne-teacher-dancing-dundee\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Bayne, Teacher of Dancing, Dundee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bayne-Howf-Dundee\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I came across this interesting stone on a visit to the Howff in Dundee yesterday evening. I wondered if Mr Bayne played the fiddle – I bet he did. No doubt someone has looked into him already but I would guess that he was of fairly high status given the quality of the stone and its location. He was active around 1800. Lets see what I can find…<\/p>\n

Here is a little more and some nice images from the Howff web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

and here he is in a local directory<\/a> for 1809:<\/p>\n

\"Bayne<\/a><\/p>\n

The 1818 Dundee Directory<\/a>\u00a0also has him as based in Overgate n (north?)<\/p>\n

The Scottish Music Index<\/a> lists “B6 Bayne,\u00a0Charles, Composer, Dancing Teacher, Dundee. Series of sets of Dance Tunes, sheet music (1802-1819)”\u00a0and<\/a>:<\/p>\n

BAYNE, CHARLES<\/h2>\n
Teacher of Dancing, Dundee. Composer; publications (sheet music):(1) “The following tunes are most respectfuly dedicated to Maj. Gen. McDonald by [C.B]” (1802) [MH.e.9] (2) “Five new tunes composed by [C.B]” [AUL\/NLS:MH.e.10] (3) “Five tunes composed by…[C.B.]” (1815) [Glen 348(7)] (4) “Six Fav. Scottish Dances…” (1819) [MH.e.8] (The “MH” shelfmarks are all NLS).<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The SMI has links to the items including listings of each tune but I have not looked.<\/div>\n

The Wighton Collection database is broken at present but the temporary system<\/a> offers:<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
ID: 427 Call Number 10438
\nComposer: BAYNE, Charles
\nTitle: Five new tunes
\nImprint: Edinburgh: printed for the author, n.d. [1805]
\nNotes:… Clova by her most obedient and most humble servant Charles Bayne<\/span><\/b>, teacher of dancing Dundee.” Comprises: The Hon[oura]ble. Mrs. Ogilvy’ … <\/i><\/p>\n
\n

ID: 428 Call Number 10438
\nComposer: BAYNE, Charles
\nTitle: Four new tunes
\nImprint: Edinburgh: printed for the author n.d. [1805]
\nNotes:… ght Infantry (or Carse of Gowrie) Volunteers, by…Charles Bayne<\/span><\/b>, teacher of dancing Dundee.” Comprises: The Hon[oura]ble. L[ieutenan]t … <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
In January 1998 ‘Betty” posted this request<\/a> for information:<\/div>\n
“I am researching my g.g.grandfather Charles Bayne, a Dancing Master in
\nDundee, Scotland in the early part of the 1800’s. I have seen some of his
\nnotices he had inserted in the local Dundee paper, saying that he was
\nstarting up his dancing classes again, after a “successful time in London,
\nwhere he was under the tuition of a great master of Dancing.” \u00a0The last
\nrecord I have of him is \u00a0in 1818 when his name was listed in the Dundee
\nDirectory for that year, living at Overgate, Dundee. His youngest daughter,
\nJessie married in London to William Nichols in January 1842, where \u00a0the
\nMarriage Certificate shows her father Charles Bayne a Dancing Master, but
\ndoes not show him as deceased. \u00a0I cannot find any record of his death in
\nScotland or in England,or where he lived when in London, has anyone any
\nsuggestions as to how I can trace his death details?”<\/div>\n

So, from a chance encounter in a gloomy graveyard I know know a little more about another interesting character in Scottish musical history. Anyone know more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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