For the tunes at least, a lot more interesting than NM - though it was important when it came out - is the source material for it, a lot of which is on FARNE.
The Antiquaries society MS, Topliff's collection and of course Vickers and Atkinson, are all there, and were sources for NM. The Antiquaries society MS includes variation sets which are extensions of Peacock - eg versions of Cut and Dry with top a's in an extra strain. Stokoe mixed tunes up, cut variation sets mercilessly, bowdlerised titles, and seems not to have fully understood the nature of the music he was dealing with. But the Antiquaries society wouldn't have got that material collected if it hadn't been for that letter... John ________________________________________ From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] on behalf of smallpi...@machineconcepts.co.uk [smallpi...@machineconcepts.co.uk] Sent: 29 June 2011 20:57 To: julia....@nspipes.co.uk Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [NSP] Ahh yes the Northumbrian Minstrelsy here is the link http://ia600200.us.archive.org/12/items/ACollectionOfTheBalladsMelodiesAndSmall-pipeTunesOfNorthumbria/NorthumbrianBallads.pdf Cleaner link on the NSP forum:- http://www.northumbrianpipers.org.uk/pipersforum/index.php To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
