Annotation:Lard of Cockpen's Scotch Measure (The)
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LARD OF COCKPEN'S SCOTCH-MEASURE, THE. Scottish, Scottish Measure (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The dance melody appears in London publisher Henry Playford's 1700 collection of Scottish dance music. The Parish of Cockpen is near Dalkeith, southeast of the city of Edinburgh. "Laird o' Cockpen" is a different tune. See also Playford's "Lord of Cockpen's Scotch Measure", a different tune with a similar title.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Playford (A Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes), 1700; No. 9, p. 4.
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