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To a original score by Scottish composer Ian Whyte it is suggested that Massine, who was interested in character and folk dance, was trying to do for Scotland what The Three-cornered Hat had done for Spain. Massine carefully studied Scottish dance before choreographing the ballet but as the Dancing Times maintained while he had 'caught its wonderful patterning, lilting quality, impetuous and neatly complicated footwork...he failed to express the strange mystical belief of the Scottish people in the supernatural.' \r\nDonald of the Burthens was based on a Scottish legend concerning a woodcutter who makes a pact with Death about his ability to heal. The Woodcutter attempts to fool Death by turning the dying king's bed round so that Death appears at the foot rather than the head. The king recovers but the woodcutter is forced to dance to his death. 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