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'''PRINCE ALBERT'S HORNPIPE [2].''' Scottish, Canadian, American; Hornpipe. C Major (Cole): D Major (Messer). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was first printed in Boston publisher Elias Howe's '''Musician's Companion, Part 3''' (1844), where it is attributed to one E.L. White. | '''PRINCE ALBERT'S HORNPIPE [2].''' Scottish, Canadian, American; Hornpipe. C Major (Cole): D Major (Messer). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was first printed in Boston publisher Elias Howe's '''Musician's Companion, Part 3''' (1844), where it is attributed to one E.L. White. White seems to have been a journeyman musician-composer, and is listed as one of the authors of '''Cecillian Glee Book''' in an 1858 advertisement of the catalogue of Boston music publishers Russell & Fuller. The title honors Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort] (1819-1861), who married his cousin, Queen Victoria, in 1839. | ||
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PRINCE ALBERT'S HORNPIPE [2]. Scottish, Canadian, American; Hornpipe. C Major (Cole): D Major (Messer). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was first printed in Boston publisher Elias Howe's Musician's Companion, Part 3 (1844), where it is attributed to one E.L. White. White seems to have been a journeyman musician-composer, and is listed as one of the authors of Cecillian Glee Book in an 1858 advertisement of the catalogue of Boston music publishers Russell & Fuller. The title honors Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha [1] (1819-1861), who married his cousin, Queen Victoria, in 1839.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 92. Howe (The Musician’s Companion, Part 3), 1844; p. 14. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 3), c. 1880’s; p. 39. Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 68. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 114, p. 71. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 126.
Recorded sources: Celtic Music Co. 019 (78 RPM), Hugh A. MacDonald (1935).
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [2]