Cock a Bendie (2)

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 Also known as    Cockabendie, Cawdor Fair, Hawthorne Tree of Cawdor.
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Scotland
 Genre/Style    Scottish
 Meter/Rhythm    Country Dance, March/Marche
 Key/Tonic of    F
 Accidental    1 flat
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    4/4
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    David Young
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Collection of the Newest Country Dances Performed In Scotland
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 32
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1740
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COCK A BENDIE. AKA - "Cockabendie." AKA and see "Cawdor Fair," "Hawthorne Tree of Cawdor." Scottish, Country Dance Tune (4/4) or March. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in both the Drummond Castle Manuscript (1734) and the Bodleian Manuscript, the latter residing in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The MS is inscribed "A Collection of the Newest Country Dances Performed in Scotland written at Edinburgh by D.A. Young, W.M. 1740." The melody appears in Middleton's and, as a march, in Ross's Collection of Pipe Music (1885).


X: 1
T:Cockabendie
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Country Dance
B:David Young -- Bodleian ms. (1740)
K:F
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defd gfec|defa gef2|defa gfec|dcAc def2:||