Annotation:Fair Maid of Whickham
Tune properties and standard notation
FAIR MAID OF WHICKHAM, THE. English, Jig. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is probably sourced by Bruce & Stokoe, Northumbrian Minstrelsy (1882; p. 10) and the Northumbrian Pipers' Tune Book (1970; p. 32) to the manuscript music collection of William Vickers.
Source for notated version: the manuscript music collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers, about whom very little is known [Seattle].
Printed sources: Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 114. Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 154. Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 3; No. 576.
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