Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Henry Atkinson manuscript is an early violin tunebook written in Northumberland. The title page carries the inscription, in a fine hand, Henry Atkinson, his book, 1694. 1694 is presumably the date the book was begun. A small 5 is apparently written below the 4, suggesting that the book was continued into the following year. Matt Seattle has written that elsewhere in the book there also appear the names Ralph Atkinson and Elinor Atkinson, which may help in the identification of the book's compiler - indeed, in 1694, one Henry Atkinson, a hoastman (coal factor) of Newcastle, married Eleanor Forster. He may be the book's compiler, though it should be understood the name is a common one.The title page also carries a later annotation in another hand Wm. A. Chatto, 1834 - who wrote a note accompanying the manuscript which states that Henry Atkinson ... was a native of the county of Northumberland, and lived in the neighbourhood of Hartburn, though there is no independent confirmation of this. Chatto also added titles for some tunes, unnamed by Atkinson, which he was able to identify. It is the earliest fiddle tunebook to have survived from northern England, and hence an important source for the Music of Northumbria in that period. There is more than one handwriting in the manuscript, both for the music and for titles - compare for instance Chickens and Sparrow Grass and Flower of Yarraw. There is also considerable variability in the accuracy of the notation, so that whereas some tunes are meticulously detailed, others are very vague and inconsistent as to barring and note durations. The maunuscript is now in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, and is held in the Northumberland Record Office. It may be viewed online on the FARNE archive, with notes by Matt Seattle, at http://www.asaplive.com/archive/index.asp. Some 13 of the tunes were transcribed in detail, including the bowings and ornaments, in Seattle's book Morpeth Rant, now unfortunately out of print."@en }
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- Henry_Atkinson_manuscript abstract "The Henry Atkinson manuscript is an early violin tunebook written in Northumberland. The title page carries the inscription, in a fine hand, Henry Atkinson, his book, 1694. 1694 is presumably the date the book was begun. A small 5 is apparently written below the 4, suggesting that the book was continued into the following year. Matt Seattle has written that elsewhere in the book there also appear the names Ralph Atkinson and Elinor Atkinson, which may help in the identification of the book's compiler - indeed, in 1694, one Henry Atkinson, a hoastman (coal factor) of Newcastle, married Eleanor Forster. He may be the book's compiler, though it should be understood the name is a common one.The title page also carries a later annotation in another hand Wm. A. Chatto, 1834 - who wrote a note accompanying the manuscript which states that Henry Atkinson ... was a native of the county of Northumberland, and lived in the neighbourhood of Hartburn, though there is no independent confirmation of this. Chatto also added titles for some tunes, unnamed by Atkinson, which he was able to identify. It is the earliest fiddle tunebook to have survived from northern England, and hence an important source for the Music of Northumbria in that period. There is more than one handwriting in the manuscript, both for the music and for titles - compare for instance Chickens and Sparrow Grass and Flower of Yarraw. There is also considerable variability in the accuracy of the notation, so that whereas some tunes are meticulously detailed, others are very vague and inconsistent as to barring and note durations. The maunuscript is now in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, and is held in the Northumberland Record Office. It may be viewed online on the FARNE archive, with notes by Matt Seattle, at http://www.asaplive.com/archive/index.asp. Some 13 of the tunes were transcribed in detail, including the bowings and ornaments, in Seattle's book Morpeth Rant, now unfortunately out of print.".