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'''MIDDLETOWN HORNPIPE.''' American, Hornpipe. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears among the music manuscripts of 19th century Setauket, Long Island, fiddler and painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868). It is the same "Middletown Hornpipe" that was printed in '''Original Dances, Waltzes & Hornpipes for the Violin''', by | '''MIDDLETOWN HORNPIPE.''' American, Hornpipe. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears among the music manuscripts of 19th century Setauket, Long Island, fiddler and painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868). It is the same "Middletown Hornpipe" that was printed in '''Original Dances, Waltzes & Hornpipes for the Violin''', by Michael Higgens, published in 1829 (p. 5). | ||
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MIDDLETOWN HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears among the music manuscripts of 19th century Setauket, Long Island, fiddler and painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868). It is the same "Middletown Hornpipe" that was printed in Original Dances, Waltzes & Hornpipes for the Violin, by Michael Higgens, published in 1829 (p. 5).
Source for notated version: violinist Gilbert Ross [Phillips].
Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 207.
Recorded sources: Folkways FW32379, Gilbert Ross - "The Cradle of Harmony: William Sidney Mount's Violin and Fiddle Music" (1976). Kim & Jim Lansford - "New Harmony."