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Theme code Index	1H1H5H5H 4H4H77
Also known as	Billy Pit, William Pitt
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History	England/North West"England/North West" is not in the list (IRELAND(Munster), IRELAND(Connaught), IRELAND(Leinster), IRELAND(Ulster), SCOTLAND(Argyll and Bute), SCOTLAND(Perth and Kinross), SCOTLAND(Dumfries and Galloway), SCOTLAND(South Ayrshire), SCOTLAND(North East), SCOTLAND(Highland), ...) of allowed values for the "Has historical geographical allegiances" property.
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Merryweather & Seattle
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Fiddler of Helperby (The)
Tune and/or Page number	No. 109, p. 61
Year of publication/Date of MS	1994
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BILLY PIT. AKA - "William Pitt." English, Reel. England, Yorkshire. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title honors one of the William Pitts who was Prime Minister of Britain. Pitt the Elder was in office from 1766-1768, while Pitt the Younger held sway from 1783-1801 and again in 1804-1806. "Billy Pitt" appears in Lawrence Leadley's Yorkshire manuscript (mid-19th century) and in the music manuscript copybook (1838) of Cumbrian musician William Irwin. As "William Pitt" (Wm. Pitt) the tune appears in the c. 1825 music manuscripts (BF13.004) of the Browne family of Troutbeck, in the old county of Westmoreland in the English Lake District. It now is located in the relatively new county of Cumbria. The manuscripts are apparently the work of different individuals over time, with the Browne family the last owners of the book before they were collected and donated to the Armitt Library, where they are kept today.

Source for notated version in print: a MS by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].

Printed source: Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 109, p. 61.

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