Cuttymun and Treeladle

 CUTTYMUN/CUTTYMAN AND TRE(E)LADLE. AKA and see "Bedding of the Bride." Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Athole, Gow, Kerr): AABB (Honeyman). Gow gives in Part Second of the Complete Repository of Original Scots Tunes (c. 1802, 1810-1820) that "This is the tune mentioned in the old Poem entitled Christ's Kirk on the Green, Canto 2nd, line 96." John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia (1824), gives: MUNN--An old person with a very little face; see 'Cuttymun', and, since writing that article, 'Cuttymuns and three Laddles', have come into my head; so this phrase may seem to say, that 'Cuttymun' is a short-shaked spoon. Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 491. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 2, 1802; pp. 26-27. Honeyman (Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor), 1898; p. 20. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; Set 30, No. 4, p. 18. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 27. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 153. Recorded source: See also listings at: Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources.

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