Annotation:London Hornpipe (4)
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LONDON HORNPIPE [4]. English, 'Old' Hornpipe (3/2 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The tune is printed in several collections from around the third decade of the 18th century, such as Wright's Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. I (London, c. 1740), and John Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master, Volume the Third (London, 1749, p. 150, a reprint of the 1731 edition), and his Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1735, p. 152).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Offord (John of the Greeny Cheshire Way), 1985.
Recorded sources:
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