Annotation:Jack Pudding
Tune properties and standard notation
JACK PUDDING. AKA and see "Merry Andrew," "Step Stately (1)." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody was first published by Playford in his English Dancing Master (1651). A 'Jack Pudding' is a buffoon who performs pudding tricks, such as swallowing a certain number of yards of black-pudding (i.e. blood pudding in a sausage casing). There are many such figures in Northern European tradition: to the Dutch he is Pickel-herringë; the Germans call him Hans Wurst (John Sausage); the Frenchman, Jean Potage; the Italian, Macaro'ni; and the English, Jack Pudding. Later the term appears to have been applied to a jester, harlequin, or a Punch-like clown figure.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 46, p. 26. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pp. 32 & 42 (the latter is a facsimile copy of the Playford original).
Recorded sources: Harmonia Mundi 907101, The King's Delight - "17c. Ballads for Voice & Violin Band" (1993. Appears as the tune for "A Light Hearts a Jewell").