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|f_annotation='''SAVAGE HORNPIPE, THE.''' AKA and see "[[Mattraim Hornpipe]]." English, Hornpipe (4/4 time). G Major: B Flat Major (Clare, Leadley). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the mid-19th century music manuscript copybooks of Helperby, Yorkshire, fiddler Lawrence Leadley (1827-1897) as an untitled hornpipe (No. 32) in the key of B flat major. It also appears in the John Clare (1793-1864, Helpstone, Northants) manuscripts (also set in B flat). Peter Cooper suspects the title may possibly refer to the poet and playwright Richard Savage (c. 1697-1743), author of '''The Bastard''' (1728). Savage’s life was one of literary success coupled with personal problems that included debt, blackmail and murder, and he died in debtors prison, having been abandoned one by one by his friends. He was the subject of Samuel Johnson’s '''Life of Savage''' (1744), one of the most elaborate of the doctor’s '''Lives of the English Poets.''' | |||
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|f_printed_sources=Callaghan ('''Hardcore English'''), 2007; p. 23. Cooper ('''99 English Fiddle Tunes'''), 2006. Merryweather & Seattle ('''The Fiddler of Helperby'''), 1994; p. 36, No. 32 (“Untitled Hornpipe V”). | |||
---- | |f_recorded_sources=Big Chain BC103, Copper & Bolton – “The Savage Hornpipe” (2006). Osmosys OSMOCD015, Blowzabella – “Bobbityshooty” (1998). | ||
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'''SAVAGE HORNPIPE, THE.''' English, Hornpipe (4/4 time). G Major: B Flat Major (Clare, Leadley). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the mid-19th century music manuscript copybooks of Helperby, Yorkshire, fiddler Lawrence Leadley (1827-1897) as an untitled hornpipe (No. 32) in the key of B flat major. It also appears in the John Clare (1793-1864, Helpstone, Northants) manuscripts (also set in B flat). Peter Cooper suspects the title may possibly refer to the poet and playwright Richard Savage (c. 1697-1743), author of '''The Bastard''' (1728). Savage’s life was one of literary success coupled with personal problems that included debt, blackmail and murder, and he died in debtors prison, having been abandoned one by one by his friends. He was the subject of Samuel Johnson’s '''Life of Savage''' (1744), one of the most elaborate of the doctor’s '''Lives of the English Poets.''' | |||
Latest revision as of 17:46, 21 December 2022
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SAVAGE HORNPIPE, THE. AKA and see "Mattraim Hornpipe." English, Hornpipe (4/4 time). G Major: B Flat Major (Clare, Leadley). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the mid-19th century music manuscript copybooks of Helperby, Yorkshire, fiddler Lawrence Leadley (1827-1897) as an untitled hornpipe (No. 32) in the key of B flat major. It also appears in the John Clare (1793-1864, Helpstone, Northants) manuscripts (also set in B flat). Peter Cooper suspects the title may possibly refer to the poet and playwright Richard Savage (c. 1697-1743), author of The Bastard (1728). Savage’s life was one of literary success coupled with personal problems that included debt, blackmail and murder, and he died in debtors prison, having been abandoned one by one by his friends. He was the subject of Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage (1744), one of the most elaborate of the doctor’s Lives of the English Poets.
