Annotation:Prince of Wales' Hornpipe (1)

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PRINCE OF WALES’ HORNPIPE [1]. AKA and see "Worcester Hornpipe." English, Hornpipe. A Major (Sumner). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A popular English hornpipe under a variety of titles (an entered without title as well in several older English musicians' ms. collections). See note for "annotation:Worcester Hornpipe" for more. Gibbons originally set the tune in the key of ‘C’ major in his ms., while another Lincolnshire musician, Thomas Sands, set it in B Flat in his c. 1810 manuscript collection.

Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].

Printed sources: Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 60.

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