Annotation:Lancashire Hornpipe (4)

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X:1 T:Lankesheire Hornpipe (A) T:Lancashire Hornpipe [4] M:3/2 L:1/8 R:Triple Hornpipe B:Wright- Extraordinary Collection of Pleasant and Merry Humours (1713, No. 17) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D g2b2f2a2 e4|e2a2 a2 gfed|g2b2f2a2 e4|d2d'4 a2 gfed|| d2 cBcB AG F4|E2e4 d2 dcBA|d2 cBcB AG F4|D2d4 A2 GFED|| fgag efed c4|B2 e4 d2 edcB|a2 gfgf ed c4|A2 d4 A2 GFED|| dcBA BABA GFGF|E2e4 d2c2 BA|d2 cB A2 GFEFGE|D2 Bc d2A2 GFED||

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LANCASHIRE HORNPIPE [4]. AKA - "Lankesheire Hornpipe." English, Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCD. The tune was printed by London music seller and publisher biography:Daniel Wright in his Extraordinary Collection of Pleasant and Merry Humours (1713, No. 18). John M. Ward calls it a "true" Lancashire hornpipe , making a distinction between other hornpipes called Lancashire Hornpipes that are in reality country dances. He equates the true Lancashire hornpipe with a rather more free form of folk dancing, rather than the proscribed dance figures in country dance collections that accompany some other "Lancashire" hornpipes (often barred in 6/4 rather than 3/2). Triple hornpipes, Ward notes, are "without exception....cast in the same four-bar variation form, one of the most distinctive and restricting in British instrumental music." Lancashire Hornpipes are more strictly defined:

...as variations on implied "double-tonic" four-bar grounds whose notes are the roots of the two chords elaborated in the descant variations. These two notes (and hence the chords they support) are always a whole step apart; and, as David Johnson has observed of such grounds, "the higher (or upper) of the two chords may be either major or minor, but the lower level chord is always major.