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'''BUCKET, THE'''. AKA and see "[[Colonel (2) (The)]]" AKA - "[[Kick Ye Buckett]]." English, Scottish; Jig (9/8 time). England; Northumberland, Lancashire, Lincoln. G Major ('A' part) & E Minor ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers (as "The Buckette"). Unfortunately, very little is known of him. It also appears in the 1823 music manuscripts of H.S.J. Jackson of Wyresdale, Lancashire. As "Kick ye Buckett" it appears in William Clark's (Lincoln) 1770 music manuscript. A published version under the "Bucket" title can be found in James Aird's '''Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs''', vol. 2 (Glasgow, 1745). However, in Walsh's '''Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master''', 3rd ed. (London, 1735, reprinted c. 1749), and Johnson's '''Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances''', vol. 3 (London, 1744), the melody is found as "The Colonel.". The air along with dance instructions ("The Colonel") also appears in the '''Bodleian Manuscript''' (kept at Bodleian Library, Oxford), entitled "A Collection of the Newest Country Dances Performed in Scotland written at Edinburgh by D.A. Young, W.M. 1740." | '''BUCKET, THE'''. AKA and see "[[Colonel (2) (The)]]" AKA - "[[Kick Ye Buckett]]." English, Scottish; Jig (9/8 time). England; Northumberland, Lancashire, Lincoln. G Major ('A' part) & E Minor ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers (as "The Buckette"). Unfortunately, very little is known of him. It also appears in the 1823 music manuscripts of H.S.J. Jackson of Wyresdale, Lancashire. As "Kick ye Buckett" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_the_bucket] it appears in William Clark's (Lincoln) 1770 music manuscript. A published version under the "Bucket" title can be found in James Aird's '''Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs''', vol. 2 (Glasgow, 1745). However, in Walsh's '''Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master''', 3rd ed. (London, 1735, reprinted c. 1749), and Johnson's '''Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances''', vol. 3 (London, 1744), the melody is found as "The Colonel.". The air along with dance instructions ("The Colonel") also appears in the '''Bodleian Manuscript''' (kept at Bodleian Library, Oxford), entitled "A Collection of the Newest Country Dances Performed in Scotland written at Edinburgh by D.A. Young, W.M. 1740." | ||
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BUCKET, THE. AKA and see "Colonel (2) (The)" AKA - "Kick Ye Buckett." English, Scottish; Jig (9/8 time). England; Northumberland, Lancashire, Lincoln. G Major ('A' part) & E Minor ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers (as "The Buckette"). Unfortunately, very little is known of him. It also appears in the 1823 music manuscripts of H.S.J. Jackson of Wyresdale, Lancashire. As "Kick ye Buckett" [1] it appears in William Clark's (Lincoln) 1770 music manuscript. A published version under the "Bucket" title can be found in James Aird's Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 2 (Glasgow, 1745). However, in Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master, 3rd ed. (London, 1735, reprinted c. 1749), and Johnson's Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1744), the melody is found as "The Colonel.". The air along with dance instructions ("The Colonel") also appears in the Bodleian Manuscript (kept at Bodleian Library, Oxford), entitled "A Collection of the Newest Country Dances Performed in Scotland written at Edinburgh by D.A. Young, W.M. 1740."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 126, p. 46. Seattle (William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 304.
Recorded sources: