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'''CAMPTOWN HORNPIPE [2]'''. AKA and see "[[Congo Prince Jig]]," "[[Granny Will Your Dog Bite? (2)]]" (Pa.). Old-Time, Reel. USA, Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Not the "[[Camptown Hornpipe (1)]]" in Burchenal, which is really the old country dance standard "[[White Cockade]]" married to the name of a dance called Camptown Hornpipe. Bayard (1981) collected several versions of this tune with the same or similar 'A' parts, but varying 'B' parts. See notes for "[[Harry Cooper]]" and "[[Granny Will Your Dog Bite? (2)]]" for other examples of this 'tune-patching'. Hans Nathan ('''Dan Emmett and Negro Minstrelsy''', Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1962, p. 93) mentions a 'Camptown Hornpipe' that was an old blackface minstrel dance or series of steps. | '''CAMPTOWN HORNPIPE [2]'''. AKA and see "[[Congo Prince Jig]]," "[[Granny Will Your Dog Bite? (2)]]" (Pa.). Old-Time, Reel. USA, Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Not the "[[Camptown Hornpipe (1)]]" in Burchenal, which is really the old country dance standard "[[White Cockade]]" married to the name of a dance called Camptown Hornpipe. Bayard (1981) collected several versions of this tune with the same or similar 'A' parts, but varying 'B' parts. See notes for "[[Harry Cooper]]" and "[[Granny Will Your Dog Bite? (2)]]" for other examples of this 'tune-patching'. Hans Nathan ('''Dan Emmett and Negro Minstrelsy''', Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1962, p. 93) mentions a 'Camptown Hornpipe' that was an old blackface minstrel dance or series of steps. | ||
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Music notation for "Camptown Hornpipe (2)" from the playing of Nelson Mathewson, appears in the music manuscripts of Long Island fiddler and painter William Sidney Mount. Mathewson was a "somewhat besotted" character, a fiddler and dancing master who was a friend and playing partner of Mount's [see [[Annotation:Mathewson's Hornpipe]] for more. | |||
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CAMPTOWN HORNPIPE [2]. AKA and see "Congo Prince Jig," "Granny Will Your Dog Bite? (2)" (Pa.). Old-Time, Reel. USA, Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Not the "Camptown Hornpipe (1)" in Burchenal, which is really the old country dance standard "White Cockade" married to the name of a dance called Camptown Hornpipe. Bayard (1981) collected several versions of this tune with the same or similar 'A' parts, but varying 'B' parts. See notes for "Harry Cooper" and "Granny Will Your Dog Bite? (2)" for other examples of this 'tune-patching'. Hans Nathan (Dan Emmett and Negro Minstrelsy, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1962, p. 93) mentions a 'Camptown Hornpipe' that was an old blackface minstrel dance or series of steps.
Music notation for "Camptown Hornpipe (2)" from the playing of Nelson Mathewson, appears in the music manuscripts of Long Island fiddler and painter William Sidney Mount. Mathewson was a "somewhat besotted" character, a fiddler and dancing master who was a friend and playing partner of Mount's [see Annotation:Mathewson's Hornpipe for more.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 58, p. 40.
Recorded sources: