Annotation:West's Hornpipe (1)

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WEST'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see “Czar of Russia's Favorite.” English, Scottish; Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Athole, Skye): AA'BB (Kerr). The melody was first published in London by Thomas and John Preston. It was entered a few years later into the large music manuscript collection of fifer John Buttery of the 37th Regiment (British). Under the title “Czar of Russia's Favorite” the hornpipe was printed in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883), issued by Boston publisher Elias Howe. Some see similarities to “Morpeth Rant (1).”

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 1), c. 1880; No. 25, p. 45. Laybourn (Köhler’s Violin Repository vol. 3), 1885; p. 262. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 173. Preston (Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1798), 1798. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 296. Wilson (Companion to the Ball Room), 1816; p. 139.

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