Annotation:Old Hornpipe

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OLD HORNPIPE. Scottish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody (labeled "very old") appears in Niel Gow's First Collection, 2nd edition, 1801, in duple meter. Emmerson (1971) argues it the melody should really have been transcribed in 3/2 time, the old hornpipe rhythm that disappeared when the country dances it was used for fell out of fashion.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Emmerson (Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String), 1971; No. 93, p. 167.

Recorded sources:

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