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Description: | This tune was published by Walsh and Rutherford, and is a little known but very fine jig with distinctive jumps. Vickers has perhaps misunderstood the title but records the tune accurately. Note that both strains are repeated in the published versions. This is the first of another six tunes which are also in Walsh's Caledonian Country Dances.The tune forms part of the The William Vickers' manuscript, dated 1770. The Index to the manuscript shows that part of the book is now missing, but the very substantial surviving part contains 580 tunes, or 'Country Dances' as the author calls them. It is not easy to pinpoint Vickers's location as his name is not uncommon, but he may be the William Vickers who shows up in genealogical records as an 'Officer of Exise' [sic] in Newcastle. It is fairly safe to assume that the collection was made in North East England because although it contains a lot of Scottish and English tunes it has local material which is not found in other sources. ; 18th century tune book compiled by William Vickers | Rights holder: | rights holder : Society of Antiquaries | Temporal: | start=1761;end=1800; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:R0309501 | Go to resource |
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