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|f_annotation='''CUCKOW MINUET [2]'''.  English, Minuet (3/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The "Cuckow Hornpipe" appears in the music copybook of violinist George Malecot, of Whitehaven, England, dated 1776-1779. The melody also appears in the music manuscript copybook of John Burks, dated 1821, ascribed to "by M.A." (a photocopy is in the possession of the ed.). Unfortunately, nothing is known of Burks, although he may have been from the north of England. No relation to "Cuckoo Minuet [1]."  
|f_annotation='''CUCKOW MINUET [2]'''.  AKA - "Cuckoo Minuet [2]." English, Minuet (3/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Burks): AABBCCDDEEFFGG (Winter). The "Cuckow Hornpipe" appears in the music copybook of violinist George Malecot, of Whitehaven, England, dated 1776-1779. The melody also appears in the music manuscript copybook of John Burks, dated 1821, ascribed to "by M.A." (a photocopy is in the possession of the ed.). Unfortunately, nothing is known of Burks, although he may have been from the north of England. No relation to "Cuckoo Minuet [1]." A similar version was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter, a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England.
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|f_printed_sources=Geoff Woolfe ('''William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book'''), 2007; No. 174, p. 66 (ms. originally dated 1850).
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CUCKOW MINUET [2]. AKA - "Cuckoo Minuet [2]." English, Minuet (3/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Burks): AABBCCDDEEFFGG (Winter). The "Cuckow Hornpipe" appears in the music copybook of violinist George Malecot, of Whitehaven, England, dated 1776-1779. The melody also appears in the music manuscript copybook of John Burks, dated 1821, ascribed to "by M.A." (a photocopy is in the possession of the ed.). Unfortunately, nothing is known of Burks, although he may have been from the north of England. No relation to "Cuckoo Minuet [1]." A similar version was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter, a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England.


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Printed sources : - Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 174, p. 66 (ms. originally dated 1850).






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