Rickett's Hornpipe
X:1 % T:Danced by Aldridge M:2/4 L:1/8 B:McGlashan - A Collection of Scots Measures (c. 1781, p. 35) N:Earliest appearance in print of Rickett's Hornpipe N:The 3rd measure in McGlashan's collection is garbled, and the N:fourth measure is missing altogether. The abc's below have been N:corrected. The 3rd measure in the collection goes: d/|e/d/c/B/ A/G/e/d/| Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Bb F/G/A/|B/A/B/F/ D/F/B/d/|c/B/A/G/ F/A/c/e/|d/e/f/d/ g/f/e/d/| c/B/A/G/ F/F/G/A/| B/A/B/F/ D/F/B/d/|c/B/A/G/ F/A/c/e/|d/f/d/B/ c/e/c/A/|BBBz:| |:f/d/d/B/ B/d/d/f/|g/e/e/c/ A/c/c/e/|f/d/d/B/ g/e/c/B/|A/B/G/A/ F/e/d/c/| B/A/B/F/ D/F/B/d/|c/B/A/G/ F/A/c/e/|d/f/d/B/ c/e/c/A/|BBBz:|]
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T:Ricket's Hornpipe
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Hornpipe
S:M.E. Eames music manuscript book, frontispiece dated Aug. 22nd, 1859 (p. 39)
S: http://archive.org/details/MEEamesBook
N:Eames was perhaps from Philadelphia
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
dcdA FAdf|edcB Aceg|gfed cBge|dcec Agfe|
dcdA FAdf|edcB Aceg|fafd egec|d2d2d2 z2:|
|:affd dffa|bgge eggb|afed bged|dcec Agfe|
dcdA FAdf|edcB Aceg|fafd egec|d2d2d2z2:|]
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T:Untitled Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Hornpipe
S:”By Michael B. Shanahan.”
N:A version of “Rickett’s Hornpipe” AKA “Yarmouth Hornpipe”, N:“Manchester Hornpipe [1].”
S:P.D. Reidy music manuscript collection, London, 1890’s (No. 15)
N:”Professor” Patrick Reidy of Castleisland was a dancing
N:master engaged by the Gaelic League in London to teach
N:dance classes. He introduced “Siege of Ennis” and “Walls
N:of Limerick” ceili dances and wrote a treatise on dancing.
N:Reidy told O’Neill that his source, Shanahan was a “celebrated
N:violinist”, the son of a piper born in Kilrush, Co. Clare, with a
N:great reputation in Kerry and Limerick in the 1860’s. It is unclear
N:where Shanahan was in relation to his acquaintance with Reidy
N:(i.e. in London or Ireland).
F: http://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/digital/bookreader/MSE_1434-1/#page/1/mode/1up
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
A2|dcdA FAdf|edcB A3g|fgaf bagf|edcB A2 (fe)|
dcdA FAdf|edcBA A3g|(3faf df (3ege ce|d2c2d2||
(fg)|afaf d2 (ga)|baba e2 (fg)|afaf bagf|edcB A2 (Bc)|
dcBA FAdf|edcB A2g2|(3fgf (df) (3ege (ce)|d2c2d2||
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T:Rickett's Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
K:D
(3ABc|dcdA FAdf|edcB A2g2|fgaf gfed|edcB Agfe|
dcdA FAdf|edcB A2g2|fafd egec|d2f2d2:|
|:fg|afaf d2ga|bgbg e2fg|afba gfed|edcB Agfe|
dcdA FAdf|edcB A2g2|fafd egec|d2f2d2:|