Annotation:Princess Beatrice Hornpipe

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PRINCESS BEATRICE Hornpipe. Scottish, Hornpipe. G Minor ('A' part) & B Flat Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by W.B. Laybourn (1835-1886), a hornpipe composer who was born in London but spent time in North Shields in northern England before moving to Edinburgh.

Source for notated version: Aly Bain (Shetlands) [Hunter].

Printed sources: Bain (50 Fiddle Solos), 1989; p. 15. Hardie (Caledonian Companion), 1992; p. 63. Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935. Laybourn (Köhler’s Violin Repository Book 3), 1885; p. 250. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 216.

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