Annotation:Norton's Favorite

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NORTON'S FAVORITE. AKA - "Norton's Best Hornpipe," "Northon's Hornpipe." AKA and see "Old Timer Clog," "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. There were numerous 'Juvenile Minstrel' troupes, including the "Original Juvenile Minstrels," "Wilson's Juvenile Minstrels," "Seller's Juvenile Minstrels" and others. There was also a James Norton who was a member briefly of Leavitt & Curran's Minstrels when they made their debut in December, 1866, in New Bedford, Mass.

The clog/hornpipe appears as "Remembrance of Dublin" and "Old Timer Clog" in later Howe company publications, Ryan's Mammoth Collection and White's Unique Collection.

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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