Annotation:Norton's Favorite

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NORTON'S FAVORITE. AKA - "Norton's Best Hornpipe," "Northon's Hornpipe." AKA and see "Remembrance of Dublin." American, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Can be used as a Clog" (Cole). The tune is included by Boston publisher biography:Elias Howe (c. 1867) in a section of tunes with the heading: "As played by Jimmy Norton, the Boss Jig Player," with the note that a 9-part arrangement can be found in his publication Howe's Full Quadrille Orchestra. New York musician, writer and researcher Don Meade informs that Norton was a Boston, Massachusetts, fiddler grew up in a minstrel show family troupe called the Norton Juvenile Minstrels, and was onstage from childhood.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 106. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 32. Lerwick (The Kilted Fiddler), 1985; p. 54 (appears as "Northon's Favorite"). Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 143.

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