Beggar's Bennison

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BEGGAR'S BENNISON. Scottish. Musicologist John Glen finds the tune first published by Angus Cumming in his posthumous 1780 collection (pg. 14). Little is known about Cumming, although he was a violinist and composer who resided at Grantown, in Strathspey, and who flourished in the latter 18th century. The Beggar’s Benison “was a Scottish gentlemen’s club devoted to “the convivial celebration of male sexuality”, it’s full title being “The Most Ancient and Most Puissant Order of the Beggar’s Benison and Merryland, Anstruther.&quot; It was founded in 1732 in the Fifeshire town of Anstruther on the Firth of Forth.

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