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'''CAPUCHIN, (THE)'''. AKA - "[[Capauchen (La)]]." English, Jig. England, Yorkshire. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title refers either to a Franciscan friar or a type of ladies garment involving a cowl and hood. Cappuccino coffee derives from this word: it is said the first cappucinno coffee served had little peaks of milky foam that resembled the pointed hoods of the friars. A different tune called "The Capuchin" (in 9/8 time) appears in the mid-18th century collections of David Rutherford (1756) and John Johnson (1751), and, as "La Capauchen", in Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson's '''200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5''' (1788). | '''CAPUCHIN, (THE)'''. AKA - "[[Capauchen (La)]]." English, Jig. England, Yorkshire. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title refers either to a Franciscan friar or a type of ladies garment involving a cowl and hood. Cappuccino coffee derives from this word: it is said the first cappucinno coffee served had little peaks of milky foam that resembled the pointed hoods of the friars. A different tune called "The Capuchin" (in 9/8 time) appears in the mid-18th century collections of David Rutherford (1756) and John Johnson (1751), and, as "La Capauchen", in Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson's '''200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5''' (1788). | ||
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CAPUCHIN, (THE). AKA - "Capauchen (La)." English, Jig. England, Yorkshire. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title refers either to a Franciscan friar or a type of ladies garment involving a cowl and hood. Cappuccino coffee derives from this word: it is said the first cappucinno coffee served had little peaks of milky foam that resembled the pointed hoods of the friars. A different tune called "The Capuchin" (in 9/8 time) appears in the mid-18th century collections of David Rutherford (1756) and John Johnson (1751), and, as "La Capauchen", in Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson's 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (1788).
The tune was entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript collections of Lawrence Leadley (Yorkshire) and John Rook (Cumbria).
Source for notated version: a MS collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].
Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. 2, c. 1786; p. 5, No. 13. Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 49, p. 41. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), 1788; No. 164, p. 82.
Recorded sources: