Cock a Bendie (2)

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Theme code Index	1122 1161H
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:Bodleian Manuscript
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. Cocakabendie seems to have various meanings in Scotland: A cockabendie or a cockie-dandy is Scots for a small, lively person, although it may also have had a bawdy meaning, as John Mactaggart in his Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia (1824) declines to explain the term, saying: "I dare hardly, for the sake of modesty, explain this term; when such is seen to be the case, readers may make a rough guess what it is." Cockabendie is also a Scottish game, and it refers to large pine cones. The melody appears in both the Drummond Castle Manuscript (1734) and the Bodleian Manuscript (p. 32), 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 [Milne, 1882] and, as a march, in Ross's Collection of Pipe Music (1885, Chapt. 7, p. 11).

Printed sources: Milne (Middleton's Selection of Strathspeys, Reels, &c. for the Violin), c. 1882; p. 4 (as "Cock o' Bendy").