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The DIXON (Anon) MS

This anonymous manuscript is in the Dixon Papers in Lincolnshire Archives, St. Rumbold St., Lincoln LN2 5AB and has the accession number Dixon 21/1/6.

Transcribed into ABC Music Notation for The Village Music Project by Ruairidh Greig

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The cover is missing and the handwriting is quite different from the T J Dixon MS. There is no name on it and the only indication of date and place is the note on Dix.55 – “Islington Feby 21st 1811”.

Many of the tunes are piano arrangements of dance tunes and popular music of the day.


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