Cut and Dry Dolly

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Theme code Index	5351H 1H315, 1H51H3 4315
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	Northumbrian/Borders
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History	ENGLAND(North East)
Structure	AABB, ABCDEFGHI
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Robert Riddell
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Scots Galwegian Border Tunes
Tune and/or Page number	p. 2
Year of publication/Date of MS	1794
Artist	Biography:Cut & Dry Band
Title of recording	Cut and Dry Dolly
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Topic 12TS278
Year recorded
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Score ()

CUT AND DRY DOLLY. English, Reel. England, Northumberland. G Major (Peacock, Bruce & Stokoe): A Major (Riddell). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Bruce & Stokoe): ABCDEFGHI (Riddell): AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH (Peacock). The title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes, which he published c. 1800. No one knows definitively what the title refers to, or if it belong to a lost song. One explanation proffered is that it refers to a "kirn-dolly", in agrarian tradition the last bit of grain to be cut which was then dressed as a female. Robert Riddell records in his Collection of Scotch Galwegian Border Tunes (1794):

This is a Border air, and from the spirit of the Tune, seems to have been composed for the Northumberland, or small bagpipe; very capital performers upon this instrument are to be found upon the English border chiefly owing to the partiality shewn to it, by the Duke of Northumberland, who grant to the Best performers, the liberty of wearing a silver crescent; which is called the Dukes Badge, and the Pipers who wear it, are called the Duke's pipers."

Printed sources: Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 156. Peacock (Peacock's Tunes), c. 1805; No. 43, p. 19. Riddell (Collection of Scotch Galwegian Border Tunes), 1794 p. 2.

X:1
T:Cut and Dry Dolly
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
S:Bruce & Stokoe - Northumbrian Minstrelsy   (1882)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
g|d/B/A/G/ B2|d/B/A/G/ g/f/e/f/|gG B2|Gddg|
d/B/A/G/ B2|d/B/A/G/ g/f/e/f/|gA c2|Aee:|
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T:Cut and Dry Dolly
M:C|
L:1/8
S:Robert Riddell’s “Collection of Scotch Galwegian Border Tunes“ (1794, p. 2)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:A
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Aaca Aaca|d/c/B/A/ !trill!c2 Aeea|Aaca Aaca|d/c/B/A/ !trill!c2 Bffa|
Aaca Aaca|d/c/B/A/ !trill!c2 Ae f/e/d/c/|df g/f/e/d/ ce f/e/d/c/|B/c/d/B/ !trill!c2 Bffa||
e/f/e/d/ c/d/e/c/ e/f/e/d/ c/d/e/c/|d/c/B/A/ !trill!c2 Aeea|e/f/e/d/ c/d/e/c/ e/f/e/d/ c/d/e/c/|B/c/d/B/ !trilL!c2 Bffa|
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A/a/a/a/ c/a/a/a/ A/a/a/a/ c/a/a/a/|d/c/B/A/ !trill!c2 Aeea|A/a/a/a/ c/a/a/a/ A/a/a/a/ c/a/a/a/|B/c/d/B/ c/d/e/c/ Bffa|
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“Variations (by) J. Clark”
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