Annotation:Prince Albert's Hornpipe (2)
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PRINCE ALBERT'S HORNPIPE [2]. Scottish, Canadian, American; Hornpipe. C Major (Cole): D Major (Messer). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was first printed in Boston publisher Elias Howe's Musician's Companion, Part 3 (1844), where it is attributed to one E.L. White. Edward Little White (1809-1851) was a journeyman musician-composer in the mid-1800's in the greater Boston region, a teacher of the piano forte and organ. He was a prolific author of numerous instrumental and sacred and secular vocal publications, including Organ without a Master, (Oliver Ditson Company), Cecillian Glee Book (1858, Boston music publishers Russell & Fuller), the Boston Melodeon (1846), Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Fried (1846, Elias Howe Co.), Young America's Collection, and so on. The title honors Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha [1] (1819-1861), who married his cousin, Queen Victoria, in 1839.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 92. Howe (The Musician’s Companion, Part 3), 1844; p. 14. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 3), c. 1880’s; p. 39. Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 68. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 114, p. 71. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 126.
Recorded sources: Celtic Music Co. 019 (78 RPM), Hugh A. MacDonald (1935).
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [2]