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    The William Dixon manuscript, written down between 1733 and 1738 in Northumberland, is the oldest known manuscript of pipe music from the British Isles...
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  • Willie Dixon (1915–1992), U.S. blues musician Bill Dixon (1925–2010), American musician and artist William Dixon manuscript, the earliest manuscript of bagpipe...
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    Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England;...
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    Northumberland by the early 18th century; many of the tunes in the William Dixon manuscript are suitable for such simple sets, and a painting of Joseph Turnbull...
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  • specifically music for Border pipes. Some 13 of the 40 tunes in the William Dixon manuscript follow the same scheme, or one of its variants. There were tunes...
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  • Dresden. Beginning date of the William Dixon manuscript of music for the Border pipes, the oldest known surviving manuscript of pipe music from the British...
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  • arguments between Handel and his singers. Approximate date of the William Dixon manuscript of music for the Border pipes. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Harpsichord...
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  • century. Others survive in manuscript sources from the 18th and 19th century. Most notably, the William Dixon manuscript, dated 1733, from Stamfordham...
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  • William Henry Dixon (1783–1854) was a Church of England clergyman and antiquary. He has strong connections to York. William Henry Dixon, son of the Rev...
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  • "as told to Rene Noorbergen", but Dixon was sued by Adele Fletcher,[who?] who claimed that her rejected manuscript was rewritten and published as that...
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  • larger version in the William Dixon manuscript, of 1733, and identical to a version found in the later 19th century Fenwick manuscript, where it is stated...
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    extensive music collection of her own, which included the important William Dixon manuscript, the earliest source of bagpipe music from the British Isles, and...
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  • a different mode and with variations for Border pipes, in the William Dixon manuscript from 40 years later; its title survives in the lyric of the song...
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  • Fingask". He had a collection of old tune books; this included the William Dixon manuscript, which he gave to Dorothea Ruggles-Brise in 1909. This, dating...
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    Dorrington, also known as Dorrington Lads, was written down in the William Dixon manuscript. Having 14 strains, it is the most complex and elaborate of the...
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  • version and that in the William Dixon manuscript, she may well have been right. An identical version had appeared in the Rook manuscript, of 1840, suggesting...
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    [nikɔla flamɛl]; c. 1330 – 22 March 1418) was a French scrivener and manuscript seller. After his death, Flamel developed a reputation as an alchemist...
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    Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, writer, and filmmaker. Dixon wrote...
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    Following the sack of Constantinople by Western crusaders in 1204, the manuscript was taken to an isolated Greek monastery in Palestine, possibly to protect...
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  • from the William Dixon manuscript, from more than 60 years earlier. Some of these are very similar - Cut and Dry Dolly is an elaboration on Dixon's Cut and...
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    Delaware Wedge (category Mason–Dixon line)
    Graham papers. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository, Yale University. "A brief history of the Mason-Dixon Line". Archived from the original...
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    After studying published copies of manuscripts by architect William Harrison Cowlishaw, he was introduced to William Lethaby in 1898, principal of the...
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    William Tecumseh Sherman (/tɪˈkʌmsə/ tih-KUM-sə; February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He...
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    Birmingham who were studying at Pembroke College: William Fulford (1831–1882), Richard Watson Dixon, Charles Faulkner, and Cormell Price. They were known...
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    Clark's son, William Andrews Clark Jr., founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1919, left his library of rare books and manuscripts to the regents...
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    The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (category Novels by Thomas Dixon Jr.)
    robes are also an invention of Dixon, and he protested their appropriation of the "livery" he created. An autograph manuscript is held by the Free Library...
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    the British Museum in London studying Mesoamerican manuscripts. While in London he met Alice Dixon, the woman with whom he would collaborate for the rest...
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  • Questioning the Millennium. Harmony Books, New York, 1997. "Joseph Smith Papers Manuscript History of The Church". "Doctrine & Covenants 130". "Doctrine & Covenants...
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    Henry Dixon Cowell (/ˈkaʊəl/; March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher and the husband of Sidney...
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    ISBN 0-8131-2328-3 Slide, A., American Racist: the life and films of Thomas Dixon, p. 170. Dixon, Jr., Thomas. The Black Hood. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1924...
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