Annotation:Cockleshells

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COCKLESHELLS. AKA - "Cockle Shells." AKA and see "Gabhairín Buí (An)," "Bonny Lass of Livingston (The)," "Lass of Leving-stone (The)," "Clashing At Her," "High Caul Cap (The), High Caul'd Cap," "Hielan Laddie (1)," "Temple Change (The)." English, Country Dance Tunes (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was printed under this title by Henry Playford in his Dancing Master of 1701 [1] (Eleventh Edition, p. 304), and in all subsequent editions of the long-running series, through the last (18th), printed in London by John Young in 1728. "Cockleshells" was also printed by London publishers Hare and Walsh in The Compleat Country Dancing Master in both the 1718 and 1731 editions. It is a variant of "High Cauled Cap (The)" and "Hielan Laddie," however, the earliest version appears to be Playford's own "Lass Of Leving-stone (The)," which appears in his Scotch Tunes. See also Northumbrian musician William Vickers' version called "Clashing at Her", perhaps the title of a lost song.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barlow (Compleat Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 428, p. 99. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 21

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