Colonel Hamilton's Delight

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Theme code Index	1H542 327L5L
Also known as	Hamilton House (1), Honorable Colonel Hamilton's Delight (The), New Bumpkin
Composer/Core Source	Biography:Joseph Reinagle
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABBCC'
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Niel Gow
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Second Collection of Niel Gow's Reels
Tune and/or Page number	p. 6
Year of publication/Date of MS	1788
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COLONEL HAMILTON'S DELIGHT. AKA and see "Hamilton House (1)," "Honorable Colonel Hamilton's Delight (The)," "New Bumpkin." Scottish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC'. Composed by Joseph Reinagle (1762-1836) around 1783 or earlier. Joseph was the English-born son of an Austrian trumpet player who lived in Portsmouth, and first gained prowess on horns. He gave them up French Horn and trumpet, according to Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians, due to his brother's skill on them, but, later returned to them after the death of his sibling. He transferred his skill to the violin and cello, and gained great fame as a teacher and performer on those instruments. It was Reinagle who taught Nathaniel Gow the cello, and he became leader of the theatre band, St. Cecelia's Hall, Edinburgh. After a two-year stay in Dublin, Reinagle moved to London and became a prominent cellist with orchestras there, and even a principal player for the Haydn and Salomon concerts. The tune appears in Niel Gow's Strathspey Reels, the Sharpe Manuscript, and Davie's Caledonian Repository. Niel Gow printed it as "The Honorable Colonel Hamilton's Delight," but in a later volume renamed the tune "New Bumpkin."

Johnson (Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century), 1984; No. 87, p. 230. Gow (Second Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1788; p. 6. (Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 3, p. 6 (appears as "Hamilton House").

X: 1
T:Honorable Colonel Hamilton's Delight, The
T:New Bumpkin
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
C:Joseph Reinable
B:Gow - 2nd Collection of Niel Gow's Reels, p. 6 (1788)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
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{d}!trill!c2B Ace|dcB AGF|G3 G3::D3 !trill!(EDE)|DGB d2d|{d}c2B {B}A2G|
!trill!FEF D2D|E2c cde|dBG G2g|dBG cAF|G3 G3::B/c/|dBd ege|dBd {d}c2A|
dBG EFG|ABG FED|1 dBd ege|dBd {d}!trill!c2A|dBG DEF|
G3 G2:|2 dgb bgd|cfa afc|Bed cBA|GDC B,A,G,||