Colley Cibber was not well received. In the middle of the play, he whispered to fellow actor Benjamin Victor that he wanted to go home, perhaps realising he was too old for the part and its physical demands. Cibber also essayed tragic parts in plays by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Dryden and others, but with less success. By the end of his acting career, audiences were being entranced by the innovatively naturalistic acting of the rising star David Garrick, who made his London debut in the title part in a production of Cibber's adaptation of "Richard III" in 1741. He returned to
Music of Scotland in the eighteenth century and David Herd's "Ancient and modern Scottish songs, heroic ballads, etc.: collected from memory, tradition and ancient authors" (1776). These were drawn on for the most influential collection, "The Scots Musical Museum" published in six volumes from 1787 to 1803 by James Johnson and Robert Burns, which also included new words by Burns. "A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs" collected by George Thomson and published between 1799 and 1818 included contributions from Burns and Walter Scott and contributed to the combining of Scottish traditional music with European classical forms. In the late eighteenth century, partly as a reaction to