Pot Stick

Another in the "Kidson" series--melodies from Frank Kidson's Old English Country Dances (1890). One more tune of early to mid-18th century origin, according to Kidson, and better known as "Over the Water to Charlie," but with quite a few other names, including "Shambuie," "The Marquis of Granby," "Ligrum Cush," "The Quaker's Wife," and "Wishaw's Delight." The last of these is a strathspey, and the violinistic character of the tune certainly supports that use, while the "pentatonic" cadence gesture suggests that the tune is much older than the 18th century. The second cadence (bars 7-8) mitigates the ^6-^8 gesture with a ^7 that, however, precedes the ^6, The first and third cadences are pure ^5-^6-^8, the older cousin of the ^5-^7-^8 cadence one finds in the later 18th and early 19th century, including in Schubert.