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|f_notes= Paddy whack. H. De Marsan, Publisher. 60 Chatham Street, N. Y.  
|f_notes= Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 3, c. 1883, No. 1, p. 1)
|f_caption=Di du mack whack, {{break}}
|f_caption=The Grier setting has the coherence to justify attributing this tune to Morgan, whoever that Morgan was. Some day we may find out.  
And where are ye from?{{break}}
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/marylaplant/banks-hornpipe-instrumental Soundcloud]
The town of Ballyhack {{break}}
Where seven praties weight a ton.{{break}}
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This popular tune has been often published from the later 18th century on in both fiddle and fife collections; some later publications have called it "Paddy O'Whack." The title is from a song by the same name, the chorus of which goes:
Irish fiddlers have often recorded "The Banks" as well, including Michael Coleman, Lad O'Beirne, Sean McGuire, Andy McGann, Sean Keane, Seamus McGuire, and Joe Burke. Queens, New York, fiddler Brian Conway plays an exquisite version. However, Fr. John Quinn finds versions in Irish tradition in much earlier musicians' music manuscripts under the title "Morgan's Hornpipe." Fr. Quinn analyzed versions of the tune and came to some surprising conclusions:  
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''Di du mack whack, ''<br>
''If one carefully studied the ABC structure of a fairly complete selection of tune variants, one might be expected to arrive at what the'' ''original setting the composer intended. It might become obvious how jumbled settings arose from performers not understanding the original'' ''intended structure.''
''And where are ye from?''<br>
 
''The town of Ballyhack ''<br>
 
''Where seven praties weight a ton.''<br>
''A case in point is “Morgan’s Hornpipe”,'' [Stephen] ''Grier’s'' [1883] ''version of which I attach...The tune has a very clear structure:'' ''A, B+A; A’, B’+A’. The second half of the second part is a repeat of the first part. The third part is a variant on the first part, and'' ''the fourth a variant on the second plus a repeat of the variant on the first part. I imagine if Morgan, if he was the composer, wished to'' ''add a further variation, it would be A”, B”+A”, and if another A’’’, B’’’+A’’’, etc. ''
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Several other songs have been set to the air, including “[[Villikins and His Dinah]]” and the American “[[Sweet Betsy from Pike]].” County Cork cleric, uilleann piper and collector [[wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist)]] entered the tune into his mid-19th century music manuscript collection (vol. 3, p. 73) as "Pig under the Pot", perhaps an air instead of a jig. He also entered a five-part setting of the tune in Book 4 (p. 155) of his collection as "Paddy Whack."
 
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''But it is obvious that nobody that I know of who has gone into print, or who has attempted to play this tune, actually understood the'' ''original intended structure. W.B. Lawrence, in'' '''Köhler''', ''has quite a jumbled structure: A, B+A”, A’+A’’’. Scott Skinner has'' ''perpetuated this structure, only varying the individual bars in his highly ornamented version, published by Hardie. In Ireland, Coleman'' ''and Maguire popularised this jumble.'' '''Ryan’s Mammoth Collection''' ''has a simpler setting, closer to the original, but which also'' ''doesn’t understand the intended structure: he has A, B+A’, B’. He claims Luigi Ostinelli of Boston as the composer, whereas Hardie has''  
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''the story about Parazotti composing it under Mrs. Taff’s roof. The garbled structure of both Ostinelli’s and Parazotti’s “compositions”''  
John Glen (1891) finds the earliest Scottish printing of it in Robert Ross's 1780 collection (p. 7). It appears in English collections before that date, however: '''Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 of the Most Celebrated Country Dances''' (c. 1756), Longman, Lukey and Broderip’s '''Bride’s Favourite Collection of 200 Select Country Dances, Cotillions''' (London, 1776), Straight and Skillern’s '''Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1''' (London, 1775), and Charles and Samuel Thompson’s '''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3''' (London, 1773). After appearing in these country dance volumes, “Paddy Whack” was often printed in instrumental tutors such as Longman and Broderip’s '''Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife''' (London, c. 1780), Thomas Skillern’s '''Compleat Instructions for the Fife''' (London, c. 1780), Charles and Samuel Thompson’s '''Compleat Tutor for the Fife''' (London, c. 1770 and1786), Thompson’s '''Compleat Tutor for the Hautboy''' (London, 1790), Wilson’s '''Pocket Preceptor for the Fife''' (London, 1805), Northumbrian piper Peacock’s '''Favorite Collection of Tunes with Variations''' (Newcastle, 1805), and Clementi’s '''Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife''' (London, c 1815), and, in America, Joshua Cushing’s '''Fifer’s Companion No. 1''' (Salem, Mass., 1805), David Hazeltine’s '''Instructor in Martial Music''' (Exeter, N.H., c. 1810), and Gilford’s '''Gentleman’s Pocket Companion for the Flute or Violin''' (New York, c. 1802).
''is proof enough to me that neither of them was the composer.''  
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It is similarly well-represented in musicians’ manuscript collections of the period.  In England, “Paddy Whack” appears in numerous musicians' manuscripts, particularly from the north of the country, including the William Clarke copybook (Lincoln, c. 1770), John Rook collection (Waverton, Cumbria, 1840), Joseph Kershaw copybook (Saddleworth, c. 1820's-30's), John Moore collection (Tyneside, 1841), Rev. R. Harrison collection (Temple Sowerby, Cumbria, c. 1815), and others.
''The Grier setting attached has the coherence to justify attributing this tune to Morgan, whoever that Morgan was. Some day we may find'' ''out. If there were no other reference associating this gentleman with this hornpipe, we might be inclined to say maybe Grier called it'' ''after someone he got it from, for example. But there is an oblique reference to our man: John McCarthy of Cappamore, whose manuscripts'' ''range from 1876 to 1912, has a very minimal manuscript version of the tune, with structure A, A’ only, but with the title “The Morigan'' ''Hornpipe”. The intrusive “i” may be just the way “Morgan” was pronounced, following a similar intrusive “ə” whenever a “g” follows an''
'' “r” in Gaelic.''
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Revision as of 09:37, 15 January 2023



The Grier setting has the coherence to justify attributing this tune to Morgan, whoever that Morgan was. Some day we may find out.
Banks Hornpipe

Played by: Mary LaPlant
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 3, c. 1883, No. 1, p. 1)

Banks Hornpipe

Irish fiddlers have often recorded "The Banks" as well, including Michael Coleman, Lad O'Beirne, Sean McGuire, Andy McGann, Sean Keane, Seamus McGuire, and Joe Burke. Queens, New York, fiddler Brian Conway plays an exquisite version. However, Fr. John Quinn finds versions in Irish tradition in much earlier musicians' music manuscripts under the title "Morgan's Hornpipe." Fr. Quinn analyzed versions of the tune and came to some surprising conclusions:

If one carefully studied the ABC structure of a fairly complete selection of tune variants, one might be expected to arrive at what the original setting the composer intended. It might become obvious how jumbled settings arose from performers not understanding the original intended structure.


A case in point is “Morgan’s Hornpipe”, [Stephen] Grier’s [1883] version of which I attach...The tune has a very clear structure: A, B+A; A’, B’+A’. The second half of the second part is a repeat of the first part. The third part is a variant on the first part, and the fourth a variant on the second plus a repeat of the variant on the first part. I imagine if Morgan, if he was the composer, wished to add a further variation, it would be A”, B”+A”, and if another A’’’, B’’’+A’’’, etc.


But it is obvious that nobody that I know of who has gone into print, or who has attempted to play this tune, actually understood the original intended structure. W.B. Lawrence, in Köhler, has quite a jumbled structure: A, B+A”, A’+A’’’. Scott Skinner has perpetuated this structure, only varying the individual bars in his highly ornamented version, published by Hardie. In Ireland, Coleman and Maguire popularised this jumble. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection has a simpler setting, closer to the original, but which also doesn’t understand the intended structure: he has A, B+A’, B’. He claims Luigi Ostinelli of Boston as the composer, whereas Hardie has the story about Parazotti composing it under Mrs. Taff’s roof. The garbled structure of both Ostinelli’s and Parazotti’s “compositions” is proof enough to me that neither of them was the composer.


The Grier setting attached has the coherence to justify attributing this tune to Morgan, whoever that Morgan was. Some day we may find out. If there were no other reference associating this gentleman with this hornpipe, we might be inclined to say maybe Grier called it after someone he got it from, for example. But there is an oblique reference to our man: John McCarthy of Cappamore, whose manuscripts range from 1876 to 1912, has a very minimal manuscript version of the tune, with structure A, A’ only, but with the title “The Morigan Hornpipe”. The intrusive “i” may be just the way “Morgan” was pronounced, following a similar intrusive “ə” whenever a “g” follows an “r” in Gaelic.

...more at: Banks Hornpipe - full Score(s) and Annotations



X:2 T: The Banks T: Banks Hornpipe [1] S: McGann / Conway R: hornpipe M: 4/4 L: 1/8 K: G V: 1 clef=treble name="2." [V:1] (3DEF|G2 B2 B2 (3dBG|F2 A2 A2 (3cAF | C2 e2 e2 fg | ^cded =cBAG | B,2 d2 d2 ef | C2 e2 e2 fg | FGAB cAFA | G2 B2 G2 :| |:ba | b2 g2 g2 (3bab | a2 f2 f2 (3aba | g2 e2 e2 ag | fed^c d2 D2 | Fdad Fdad | Gdgd Gdgd | ^cdef gece | d^cde d=cBA | GBdB gdAG | FAdA fAGF | EGBG edcB | ABAG FEDC | B,GdG B,GdG | CGeG CGeG | FGAB cAFA | G2 B2 G2 :| P: original key Eb K: Eb |:(3B,CD|E2 G2 G2 (3BGE|D2 F2 F2 (3AFD|A,2 c2 c2 de| =ABcB _AGFE | G,2 B2 B2 cd | A,2 c2 c2 de | DEFG AFDF | E2 G2 E2 :| |:gf| g2 e2 e2 (3gfg | f2 d2 d2 (3fgf | e2 c2 c2 fe | dcB=A B2 B,2 | DBfB DBfB | EBgB EBgB | =ABcd ecAc | B=ABc B_AGF | EGBG eBFE | DFBF dFED | CEGE cBAG | FGFE DCB,A, | G,EBE G,EBE | A,EcE A,EcE | DEFG AFDF | E2 G2 E2 :||