Dedicated to the pioneers of Australia , this Queensland sheet music for The Pioneer Scottische,or Alligator Hop , by Hewetson Burne, was performed by the Band of the Grenadier Guards at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886. It is for sale at $880 in the latest acquisitions list of Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Melbourne .
Information supplied by the bookshop states that although Mr Hewetson Burne appears to have been something of a one-hit wonder – we can only locate one other published song for which he wrote only the lyrics, not even the music . This is a dazzling edition of sheet music, befitting a piece selected to be played at such a prestigious event.
A Melbourne imprint with identical cover design was published by Gordon and Gotch in 1886, and appears better known than this London edition, being represented in a number of Australian libraries.
