Cream Pot (1) (The)

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Theme code Index	1356 1352
Also known as	Kern Staff (The), Miss Grace Hay's Delight
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance, Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABB'CC
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Charles and Samuel Thompson
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 1
Tune and/or Page number	No. 187
Year of publication/Date of MS	1757
Artist	Biography:Geckoes
Title of recording	Red Horse (The)
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Ock Records CK060
Year recorded
Media
Score ()

CREAM POT, THE. AKA and see "The Kern Staff," "Miss Grace Hay's Delight." Scottish, Engish; Jig. G Major ('A' and 'C' parts) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'CC. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Robert Ross's 1780 collection (p. 21), although subsequently it has also been found in the earlier London publishers Johnson's Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6 (1751), Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 favourite Country Dances (1757), and David Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 of the Most Celebrated Country Dances (1756). It appears in several musician's manuscripts of the 18th and 19th centuries, including the 1770 music manuscript of Northumbrian musician William Vickers, the Thomas Hammersley ms. (London, 1790), and the William Higgot ms. (Cumbria?, c. 1800). The Gows printed the tune under the title "Miss Grace Hay's Delight." Country dance directions to the "Cream Pot" appear in H. and E. Phinney's Select Collection of the Newest and Most Favorite Country Dances (Ostego, New York, 1808), and a small edition called A Choice Collection of New and Approved Country Dances (Northampton, Mass., 1796).

Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. 1, 1782; p. 25. Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 72. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 187.

Recorded sources: EFDSS CD13, Geckoes - "Hardcore English" (2007. Various artists). Ock Records CK060, Geckoes - "The Red Horse."

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T:Cream Pot
M:6/8
L:1/8
B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757)
Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynnian Titford-Mock, 2007
Z:abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion 
K:G
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