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'''MISS RICHARDS’ HORNPIPE'''. English, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. From the early 19th century Hardy family manuscripts, Dorset. Barry Callaghan (2007) identifies Miss Richards as a “famous Sadlers Wells acrobat and dancer (who) performed in Dorchester in 1786.” | |f_annotation='''MISS RICHARDS’ HORNPIPE'''. English, Hornpipe (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. From the early 19th century Hardy family manuscripts, Dorset, whose most famous member was novelist [[wikipedia:Thomas_Hardy]] (1840-1928). Barry Callaghan (2007) identifies Miss Richards as a “famous Sadlers Wells acrobat and dancer (who) performed in Dorchester in 1786.” She is recorded as having performed feats of "Ground and Lofty Tumbling" in a show called "Exhibitions of Sadlers Wells" presented by Andrews company at Coopers' Hall, Bristol, March, 1782. Elizabeth Rebecca Richards (1775–1854) married actor John Edwin in 1791 and continued a long and successful career as Mrs. Edwin (long surviving her husband, who died in Dublin in 1805). A sketch of her can be found in the '''Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 17''', by John Joseph Knight [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Edwin,_Elizabeth_Rebecca_(DNB00)]. | ||
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The first strain of "Miss Richard's Hornpipe" is shared with the Irish polka "[[Thady Ragen]]," although the second strains differ. | |||
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'' | |f_printed_sources=Barber ('''Nick Barber's English Choice'''), 2002; no. 77, p. 35. | ||
Callaghan ('''Hardcore English'''), 2007; p. 21. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=DMPCD 0204, Nick & Mary Barber with Huw Jones - "Lovely Nancy" (2002). | |||
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MISS RICHARDS’ HORNPIPE. English, Hornpipe (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. From the early 19th century Hardy family manuscripts, Dorset, whose most famous member was novelist wikipedia:Thomas_Hardy (1840-1928). Barry Callaghan (2007) identifies Miss Richards as a “famous Sadlers Wells acrobat and dancer (who) performed in Dorchester in 1786.” She is recorded as having performed feats of "Ground and Lofty Tumbling" in a show called "Exhibitions of Sadlers Wells" presented by Andrews company at Coopers' Hall, Bristol, March, 1782. Elizabeth Rebecca Richards (1775–1854) married actor John Edwin in 1791 and continued a long and successful career as Mrs. Edwin (long surviving her husband, who died in Dublin in 1805). A sketch of her can be found in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 17, by John Joseph Knight [1].
The first strain of "Miss Richard's Hornpipe" is shared with the Irish polka "Thady Ragen," although the second strains differ.
