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Theme code Index	3H3H2H2H 3H3H3H3H
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Composer/Core Source	Biography:John Stickle
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Shetland/Orkney
Meter/Rhythm	Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History	SCOTLAND(Shetland/Orkney)
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Pat Shuldham-Shaw
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society vol. 9 No. 3
Tune and/or Page number	p. 138
Year of publication/Date of MS	Dec. 1962
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Cutty: Annotations

X:1 % T:Cutty S:John Stickle (1875-1957, Lerwick) M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:"Fairly Steady" N:Q=108 B:Pat Shuldham Shaw - "A Shetland Fiddler and His Repertoire: John Stickle 1875-1957" B:Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, vol. 9, No. 3, Dec. 1962, p. 138. Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D f2d faf|e2d eg2|{fg}f2d f2d|f2d fa2| f2d faf|e2d efg|faf e2e|d2d fa2|| A2f ecA|c2d ee2|A2f ecA|c2d ee2| A2f ecA|d2d efg|faf e2e|d2dfa2||

X:1 % T:Cutty M:6/8 L:1/8 O:Shetland S:John Stickle K:D f2d faf|e2d eg2|f2d f2d|f2d fa2|f2d faf| e2d efg|faf e2e|d2d f a2||A2f ecA|c2d ee2| A2f ecA|c2d ee2|A2f ecA|d2d efg|faf e2e|d2d fa2||

Cutty: Annotations

CUTTY. Shetland, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A dance was performed to this tune (as mentioned by the collector Shuldham-Shaw) which Unst fiddler John Stickle maintained was "'a kind of kibby dance,' performed 'entirely in a sitting-on-the-heels position'" (Cooke, 1986). 'Cutty' means 'short' or truncated in Scots dialect (although it also is a derogatory term for women--referring to an immoral female).

Source for notated version: John Stickle (Unst, Shetland) [Cooke]. The tune was originally collected by Pat Shuldham-Shaw after World War II.

Printed source: Cooke (The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles), 1986; Ex. 22, p. 74.