On 17 Jan 2011, at 13:00, Margaret Watchorn wrote: > I suspect both these tunes are based on the old north Northumbrian air 'The > Throttlin' of the Reeds/Reids'
Margaret, I think you're probably right. The problem with "Rotting of The Cotton Threads" is the question: why would anyone want to do this? Rotting is part of linen production, extracting fibres from long stems. With cotton, the stuff is already white and fluffy and generally lovely. The melody itself has aspects of the 2nd Viennese school, with those improbable abrupt leaps. Could this be one of McBeaumont's compositions? Or am I making this already rotten thread even worse? Francis To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
