Annotation:Barwick Billy

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BARWICK BILLY. AKA and see "Go to Berwick Johnny," "Berwick Johnny," "Berwick Jockey (2)," "New Road to Berwick (The)." English, Double Hornpipe (3/4 time). England, Northumberland. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. Double [Ed. or 'Triple'] hornpipes are generally from Lancashire and Cheshire. "Barwick is an old spelling of Berwick (as in Berwick-On-Tweed). Time signature 6/8 (in William Vicker's original) but notes grouped in 3/4 throughout. This would appear to have been one of the most popular Double Hornpipes to judge by its many surviving versions; only the 'Dusty Miller' rivals it in this respect. Vicker's setting is the only one I have seen with four strains, others having two or three" (Matt Seattle).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Seattle/Vickers (Great Northern Tune Book, part 2), 1987; No. 254. Stokoe & Bruce (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 162 (appears as "Go to Berwick, Johnnie"). Mooney (A Collection of the Choicest Scots Tunes for the Lowland or Border Bagpipes, vol. 1), 1982; p. 1 (appears as "Go to Berwick, Johnnie"). Seattle (Bewick's Pipe Tunes), 1986; No. 34 (appears as "Berwick Johnny"). Offord (John of the Greeny Cheshire Way), 1985; p. 3 (appears as "Berwick Jockey").

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