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|f_annotation= | |f_annotation='''ST. BOTOLPH HORNPIPE.''' American, Hornpipe. A Major ('A' part) & E Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The name 'Boston' is derived from the contraction over time of the place-name ‘St. Botolph's stone’, located in Lincolnshire (in the year 1130 this name appeared as ''Botulvestan''). St. Botolph is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the year 654 as beginning to build a minster in an unidentified place, while another source describes him as “a man of remarkable life and learning.” Nothing else is known of him (or of his stone, or why it was important), though there are several medieval churches dedicated to him, including one in London (Matthews, 1972). | ||
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It “Can be used as a Clog,” notes Ryan. It may be that the title as it appears '''Ryan’s Mammoth Collection''' is simply another way of saying the ‘Boston Hornpipe’. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Cole ('''1000 Fiddle Tunes'''), 1940; p. 99. '''Ryan’s Mammoth Collection''', 1883; p. 135. | |||
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ST. BOTOLPH HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe. A Major ('A' part) & E Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The name 'Boston' is derived from the contraction over time of the place-name ‘St. Botolph's stone’, located in Lincolnshire (in the year 1130 this name appeared as Botulvestan). St. Botolph is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the year 654 as beginning to build a minster in an unidentified place, while another source describes him as “a man of remarkable life and learning.” Nothing else is known of him (or of his stone, or why it was important), though there are several medieval churches dedicated to him, including one in London (Matthews, 1972).
It “Can be used as a Clog,” notes Ryan. It may be that the title as it appears Ryan’s Mammoth Collection is simply another way of saying the ‘Boston Hornpipe’.
