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|f_annotation='''STAGSHAW BANK FAIR.''' English, Reel. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. | |f_annotation='''STAGSHAW BANK FAIR.''' English, Reel. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune, as "Stagshaw Bank", also was entered into a c. 1887 manuscript compiled by the Society of Antiquities, entitled "Airs and dance tunes collected and constructed by the Melodies Committee of the Newcastle Antiquarian Society, 1857-1887," a compendium of their collecting work of local Northumbrian tunes over several decades. Their work formed the basis from which much of the contents of Bruce & Stokoe's '''Northumbrian Minstrelsy''' is drawn, and continued for several years after the publication of that volume. The tune is thought to be the work of Robert Bewick. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Bruce & Stokoe ('''Northumbrian Minstrelsy'''), 1882; p. 168. | |f_printed_sources=Bruce & Stokoe ('''Northumbrian Minstrelsy'''), 1882; p. 168. | ||
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STAGSHAW BANK FAIR. English, Reel. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune, as "Stagshaw Bank", also was entered into a c. 1887 manuscript compiled by the Society of Antiquities, entitled "Airs and dance tunes collected and constructed by the Melodies Committee of the Newcastle Antiquarian Society, 1857-1887," a compendium of their collecting work of local Northumbrian tunes over several decades. Their work formed the basis from which much of the contents of Bruce & Stokoe's Northumbrian Minstrelsy is drawn, and continued for several years after the publication of that volume. The tune is thought to be the work of Robert Bewick.
