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|f_annotation='''XYZ.''' English, Hornpipe (whole time). G Minor (Green ms.): A Minor (Rook). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A minor mode setting of the tune is to be found under the curious title "XYZ" in the 1831 music manuscript book of William Thomas Green (1825-1898), piper to the Duchess of Northumberland, as was his father, William Green of Morpeth (1774-1860). Researcher and Northumbrian piper Matt Seattle explains that 'XYZ' was the name of a famed racehorse, winner of the Gold Cup for four consecutive hears from 1811-1814See Seattle's note at the FARNE site [http://www.farnearchive.com/detail.asp?id=R0606202].. XYZ was owned by R. Riddell esq. of Felton Park, Northumberland, and died in 1832. Green's manuscript is dated 1831, when he would have been aged 6 or 7, and contains settings of tunes suggesting the fiddle or fife, or perhaps the flute, with a dearth of pipe tunes. Quite possibly it is the work of another hand, perhaps only possessed by Green. | |f_annotation='''XYZ.''' AKA and see "[[Butchers of Bristol (2)]]." English, Hornpipe (whole time). G Minor (Green ms.): A Minor (Rook). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A minor mode setting of the tune is to be found under the curious title "XYZ" in the 1831 music manuscript book of William Thomas Green (1825-1898), piper to the Duchess of Northumberland, as was his father, William Green of Morpeth (1774-1860). Researcher and Northumbrian piper Matt Seattle explains that 'XYZ' was the name of a famed racehorse, winner of the Gold Cup for four consecutive hears from 1811-1814See Seattle's note at the FARNE site [http://www.farnearchive.com/detail.asp?id=R0606202].. XYZ was owned by R. Riddell esq. of Felton Park, Northumberland, and died in 1832. Green's manuscript is dated 1831, when he would have been aged 6 or 7, and contains settings of tunes suggesting the fiddle or fife, or perhaps the flute, with a dearth of pipe tunes. Quite possibly it is the work of another hand, perhaps only possessed by Green. | ||
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Revision as of 23:34, 22 December 2021
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XYZ. AKA and see "Butchers of Bristol (2)." English, Hornpipe (whole time). G Minor (Green ms.): A Minor (Rook). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A minor mode setting of the tune is to be found under the curious title "XYZ" in the 1831 music manuscript book of William Thomas Green (1825-1898), piper to the Duchess of Northumberland, as was his father, William Green of Morpeth (1774-1860). Researcher and Northumbrian piper Matt Seattle explains that 'XYZ' was the name of a famed racehorse, winner of the Gold Cup for four consecutive hears from 1811-1814See Seattle's note at the FARNE site [1].. XYZ was owned by R. Riddell esq. of Felton Park, Northumberland, and died in 1832. Green's manuscript is dated 1831, when he would have been aged 6 or 7, and contains settings of tunes suggesting the fiddle or fife, or perhaps the flute, with a dearth of pipe tunes. Quite possibly it is the work of another hand, perhaps only possessed by Green.
