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'''CUDDIE'S WEDDING.''' Scottish, Reel (cut time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A tune with the title "Cuddy's Wedding" was entered into the 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers (p. 35), but it is a different melody. | '''CUDDIE'S WEDDING.''' Scottish, Reel (cut time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A tune with the title "Cuddy's Wedding" was entered into the 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers (p. 35), but it is a different melody. Reference to "Cuddie's Wedding" is made in Ewan Clark's epic '''The Rustic: A Poem in Four Cantos''' (1805) in Canto III, p. 65: | ||
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<br> | ''And now an off'ring to the bride is made,''<br> | ||
''Seated beneath the poplar's spreading shade,''<br> | |||
''The fiddler at her back, in speaking thrum,''<br> | |||
'' 'Come all to Cuddy's wedding, come, come come come!''<br> | |||
''A pewter dish is plac'd upon her knee,''<br> | |||
''And the half-crowns dance round it merrily.''<br> | |||
''All now th ebridal off'ring have bestow'd''<br> | |||
''And the bridge bends beneath her silver load.''<br> | |||
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A note in the volume explains, " 'Come all to Cuddy's Wedding'. This is the tune invariably played at a bidden wedding, whilst the company are presenting their gifts to the bride." | |||
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CUDDIE'S WEDDING. Scottish, Reel (cut time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A tune with the title "Cuddy's Wedding" was entered into the 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers (p. 35), but it is a different melody. Reference to "Cuddie's Wedding" is made in Ewan Clark's epic The Rustic: A Poem in Four Cantos (1805) in Canto III, p. 65:
And now an off'ring to the bride is made,
Seated beneath the poplar's spreading shade,
The fiddler at her back, in speaking thrum,
'Come all to Cuddy's wedding, come, come come come!
A pewter dish is plac'd upon her knee,
And the half-crowns dance round it merrily.
All now th ebridal off'ring have bestow'd
And the bridge bends beneath her silver load.
A note in the volume explains, " 'Come all to Cuddy's Wedding'. This is the tune invariably played at a bidden wedding, whilst the company are presenting their gifts to the bride."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Robert Ross (Choice Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances & Strathspeys), Edinburgh, 1780; p. 6.
Recorded sources: