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'''COCK A BENDIE'''. AKA - "Cockabendie." AKA and see "Cawdor Fair," "Hawthorne Tree of Cawdor." Scottish, Country Dance Tune (4/4) or March. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in both the '''Drummond Castle Manuscript''' (1734) and the '''Bodleian Manuscript''', the latter residing in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The MS is inscribed "A Collection of the Newest Country Dances Performed in Scotland written at Edinburgh by D.A. Young, W.M. 1740." The melody appears in Middleton's and, as a march, in '''Ross's Collection of Pipe Music''' (1885). | '''COCK A BENDIE'''. AKA - "Cockabendie." AKA and see "Cawdor Fair," "Hawthorne Tree of Cawdor." Scottish, Country Dance Tune (4/4) or March. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A ''cockabendie'' or a ''cockie-dandy'' is Scots for a small, lively person. The melody appears in both the '''Drummond Castle Manuscript''' (1734) and the '''Bodleian Manuscript''' (p. 32), the latter residing in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The MS is inscribed "A Collection of the Newest Country Dances Performed in Scotland written at Edinburgh by D.A. Young, W.M. 1740." The melody appears in Middleton's and, as a march, in '''Ross's Collection of Pipe Music''' (1885). | ||
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COCK A BENDIE. AKA - "Cockabendie." AKA and see "Cawdor Fair," "Hawthorne Tree of Cawdor." Scottish, Country Dance Tune (4/4) or March. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A cockabendie or a cockie-dandy is Scots for a small, lively person. The melody appears in both the Drummond Castle Manuscript (1734) and the Bodleian Manuscript (p. 32), the latter residing in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The MS is inscribed "A Collection of the Newest Country Dances Performed in Scotland written at Edinburgh by D.A. Young, W.M. 1740." The melody appears in Middleton's and, as a march, in Ross's Collection of Pipe Music (1885).
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