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|f_annotation='''BRITISH HERO, THE'''. English, Scottish; Jig or Quickstep (6/8 time). England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the tune first in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection ('''Newest and Best Reels...''' p. 30), although it had appeared a year earlier in London publisher David Rutherford's '''Compleat Collection of 200 country Dances, vol. 2''' (1760). In addition to William Vickers' Northumbrian music manuscript collection, it appears in the late 18th/early 19th century music copybook of British army fifer John Buttery (1784-1854), who joined the 34th Regiment in Lincoln. James Aird prints the tune as "[[Female Hero]]." | |||
---- | |f_source_for_notated_version=the 1770 music manuscript collection of William Vickers (Northumberland) [Seattle]. | ||
|f_printed_sources=McLachlan ('''The Piper's Assistant'''), 1854; No. 44, p. 25. Seattle ('''Great Northern Tune Book/William Vickers'''), 1987, Part 3; No. 442. | |||
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'''BRITISH HERO, THE'''. English, Scottish; Jig or Quickstep (6/8 time). England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the tune first in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection ('''Newest and Best Reels...''' p. 30), although it had appeared a year earlier in London publisher David Rutherford's '''Compleat Collection of 200 country Dances, vol. 2''' (1760). In addition to William Vickers' Northumbrian music manuscript collection, it appears in the late 18th/early 19th century music copybook of British army fifer John Buttery (1784-1854), who joined the 34th Regiment in Lincoln. James Aird prints the tune as "[[Female Hero]]." | |||
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BRITISH HERO, THE. English, Scottish; Jig or Quickstep (6/8 time). England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the tune first in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (Newest and Best Reels... p. 30), although it had appeared a year earlier in London publisher David Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 country Dances, vol. 2 (1760). In addition to William Vickers' Northumbrian music manuscript collection, it appears in the late 18th/early 19th century music copybook of British army fifer John Buttery (1784-1854), who joined the 34th Regiment in Lincoln. James Aird prints the tune as "Female Hero."
