Annotation:Cockle Geordie

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X:1 T:Cockle Geordie L:1/8 M:2/4 Q:"Moderato" B:Robert Topliff – “Selection of the most popular melodies of the Tyne B:and the Wear consisting of 24 original airs peculiar to the counties B:of Durham and Northumberland, three of which are harmonized B:with appropriate words, symphonies and accompaniments and B:the remainder variously arranged for the piano forte” (c. 1812, p. 36) F: http://www.farnearchive.com/show_images.asp?id=F0103601&image=1 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F V:1 fdeg|fd A2|fdeg|fd G2|fdeg |fd A2|fdeg|fd G2|| FG AB/c/|dc A2|FG AB/c/|dc G2|FG AB/c/|dc A2|FG AB/c/|dc G2|| V:2 clef = bass [A,D]z[A,^C]z|[A,D]zz2 |[A,D]z[A,^C]z|[A,D]zz2|DFE^C|DA,F,D,|D,F,B,G,|A,F,E,C,|| F,C,A,,F,,|F,C,A,,F,,|F,C,A,,F,,|=B,,C,C,,C,|z [A,C] [A,C][A,C]| z [A,C] [A,C][A,C]| z [A,C] [A,C][A,C]|C,[G,C]C,2||



COCKLE GEORDIE. English, Reel (2/4 time). England, Northumberland. G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Also found in Peacock's turn of the 19th century Northumbrian piping collection.


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Printed sources : - Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 146. Robert Topliff (Selection of the most popular melodies of the Tyne and the Wear), c. 1812; p. 36.

Recorded sources : - Flying Fish FF-250, The Battlefield Band – "Home is Where the Van Is" (1981). Park Records PRKCD90, Kathryn Tickell - Strange but True" (2006).




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