M&D spoiler: Ariel's Song, see Orpheus, where else?

[Pierre-Yves Petillon]

when it comes to music, the GR reflex is to look up under Orpheus, isn't
it? And when it comes to English music, to look up under English Orpheus.
There it is all right.
The English Orpheus -
vol. 30: Thomas Linley the younger
              Compact Disc CDA66767. The English Orpheus - 30. THOMAS LINLEY
              (THE YOUNGER) (1756-1778) Cantatas and Theatre Music. JULIA
              GOODING soprano. PAUL GOODWIN.oboe, The Parley of Instruments
Baroque Orchestra and Choir, directed from the harpsichord by Paul
NICHOLSON ..
              http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/66767.html - size 12K -
including "Where the bee sucks"

Peter Holman at 1995 explains that "Thomas Linley's music for the Tempest was
written for a revival of the play at Drury Lane on 4 January 1777" - which
would be slightly for M&D although not that much. But he also explains that
Thomas Linley Jr "retained most of the established music for the play (a
mixture of the early 18th score, then attributed to Purcell and now thought
to be by his pupil John Welden, and that written by Thomas Arne in 1746).
"Linley retained Arne's famous setting of "where the bee sucks" but added a
chorus, cunningly adapting and orchestrating material from a glee version
of the song". see: www.hyperion-records.
        Considering that Thomas Linley was born in Bath (where the Corsican
etc are heading), that his father Thomas Linley Jr played "a prominent role
in Bath's musical life" + that Samuel Linley was "a talented oboist" (not
an automat) + That this was written for *Drury Lane (see *J J Lalande) +
that the same record (The English Orpheus 30, recorded 1994) contains
"Dar-thula", adapted from "Dar-thula a Poem", published by James Macpherson
in his 1765 (*here you are!) edition of The Works of Ossian, the Song of
Fingal (the book that put Scotland (or at least that Scotland!) on the map,
seems that the XVIIIth musical connection would make more sense that the
Shakespeare's Tempest connection, hardly to be found. Just a suggestion.