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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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The tune was entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript collections of Lawrence Leadley (Yorkshire) and John Rook (Cumbria).
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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.

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