Annotation:Poppy Leaf Hornpipe

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POPPY LEAF HORNPIPE. American, Canadian, Irish; Hornpipe. USA, New England. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Cole, McNulty, Miller & Perron, Mulvihill): AA’BB’ (Cranford). "Can be used as a Clog" (Cole). The tune first appeared in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883), and its direct successor Cole’s 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940), from which it was picked up by both Irish and Canadian fiddlers.

Source for notated version: fiddler Brenda Stubbert (b. 1959, Point Aconi, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) [Cranford]; Peter Chaisson, Jr., b. 1942 (Bear River, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 97. Cranford (Brenda Stubbert’s), 1994; No. 80, p. 29. McNulty (Dance Music of Ireland), 1965; pg. 26. Miller & Perron (New England Fiddler's Repertory), 1983; No. 78. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 14, p. 92. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 60. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 132.

Recorded sources: Brenda Stubbert - “House Sessions” (1992). Green Linnett SIF1035, Brian Conway & Tony De Marco - "The Apple in Winter" (1981. Learned from Paddy Reynolds).