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From 1770-2 a man called William Vickers made a manuscript collection of dance tunes, of which some 580 survive, including both pipe and fiddle tunes.〔 William Vickers, ed. M. Seattle, The Great Northern Tune Book, 2nd ed. (English Folk Dance and Song Society with the Northumbrian Pipers' Society, 2008).〕 The manuscript is incomplete - 31 pages have not survived, though their contents are listed at the beginning of the book. In the mid-19th century, it belonged to the pipemaker John Baty, of Wark, Northumberland, and it now belongs to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is kept in the Northumberland County Record Office at Woodhorn, Ashington. ==The man== Little is known of the man himself, but something can be learned from the manuscript - he was obviously a keen musician, and many tunes are only playable on the fiddle. The collection does not only contain fiddle tunes however, for instance there are numerous tunes with the characteristic 9-note range and mode of the Border pipes. Several of the tune titles refer to Northumberland and Durham and a lot of other tunes are local to the region, so it is reasonable to conclude he lived in or around Newcastle. He may well have been the William Vickers who was married at St Nicholas, Newcastle, in 1775, probably the same as the Excise Officer of the same name whose son, also William, was baptised there the following year. He certainly had some education, and a sense of humour - the tunes are introduced by a poem: :Musicks a Crotchet the Sober thinks it Vain :The Fiddles a Wooding Projection :Tunes are but Flights of a Whimsical Brain :Which the Bottle brings best to Parfection :Musisians are half witted mery and madd :And Those are the same that admire Them :Theyr fools if they Pley unless their Well Paid :And the Others are Blockheads to Hire them. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Vickers manuscript」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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