Annotation:Watson's Hornpipe

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WATSON’S HORNPIPE. English, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The first strain is shared with “Miss Sackville’s Fancy”, printed in Glasgow by James Aird in 1785. The entire melody appears as an untitled hornpipe in the George Henry Watson (Swanton Abbott, Norfolk) music manuscript collection, c. 1850-80 (hence the name "Watson's Hornpipe").

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 26.

Recorded sources: Grand Union – “Hardcore English” (2007. Various artists). GUCD 003-10, Grand Union – “Union Specific.”

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