Annotation:Cassino
X:1 T:Cassino M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B: William Clark of Lincoln music manuscript collection (1770, No. 37) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G c|TBA2B TA2|G2G G2B|Tc2B c2TB|A2A A2B| c2c cde|edc B2d|dcB AGA|G2G G2:| |:d2d dBG|e2e e3|c2c cAF|d2d d3| G2G B2G|d2B g2e|edc BAG|FGA D2A| TB2A B2TA|G2G G2B|Tc2B c2TB|A2A A2B| c2c cde|edc B2d|dcB AGA|G2 G G2:|]
CASSINO. AKA and see "Hickity Crackity," "Baltimore (1)," "Cacina," "Cacinameronian's Rant," "Cassano Jig," "French March (2)" (Murphy), "Cotillon" (Greenwood), "Cottillion Oats Peas Beans." English, American; March or Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). Van Cleef and Keller (1980) report the tune (which will be recognizable as the melody to the singing game "Oats, peas, beans and barley, oh!") was very popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in England and America, though it appears to have been French in origin. The melody appears in Button & Whittaker, 1804-5 (Button and Whittaker's Pocket Collection of Favorite Marches); p. 58 and in Longman and Broderip's Longman and Broderip's Compleat Collection of 200 Favorite Country Dances (London, 1781), as well as the Thompson's Compleat Collection, vol. 4 (London, 1780). It also was printed in march collections by Button & Whitaker and the Thompsons. In America, it was copied by Cushing Eells (Norwich, Connecticut) into his German flute MS of 1789, and Jeremiah Brown (Seabrook, N.H.) into his 1782 dance tune copybook. Later American sources give the title as "Baltimore (1)" and "Cassano," and in Pennsylvania as "Hickity Crackity." The first strain of the pipe jig "Maltman (2) (The)" is similar to that of "Cassino," but not enough to be called cognate.
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