Byrne's Hornpipe (3)

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 Theme code Index    1H362 31H1H7
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Scotland
 Genre/Style    Scottish
 Meter/Rhythm    Hornpipe/Clog
 Key/Tonic of    B
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Aeolian (minor)
 Time signature    4/4
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:James S. Kerr
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Merry Melodies vol. 3
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 36
 Year of publication/Date of MS    c. 1880's
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
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BYRNE'S HORNPIPE [3]. Scottish, Hornpipe. B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Robin Williamson (1976) speculates that the title might refer variously to a Border minstrel named Burne the Violer, a famous Irish giant named Charles Byrne (who Williamson says died in Margate at the age of twenty-three after requesting that his coffin, which measured nine feet, four inches, be thrown into the ocean because of his fears his body would be medically dissected), and finally the Irish blind fiddler Michael Byrn (who was hired by the notorious Captain Bligh at the beginning of the ill-fated voyage of The Bounty). All of which seems pure speculation for what is a fairly common name.

Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 337, p. 36. Williamson (English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes), 1976; p. 57.


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T:Byrne's Hornpipe [3]
M:C
L:1/8
B:Kerr - Merry Melodies, vol. 3, No. 337 (c. 1880's)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:D
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Edcd ecAg|fgaf bgec|d2d2d2::(fe)|dfba gfed|ceag fedc|
Bdgf edcd|B2B2B3c|d2 (df) dAGF|Edcd ecAg|fgaf bgec|d2d2d2:||

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