Annotation:Duke of York's Hornpipe

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DUKE OF YORK'S HORNPIPE. English, Hornpipe. England, Yorkshire. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The first strain is similar to that of "Easter Holy Days," a country dance printed by Charles and Samuel Thompson in 1765.

Source for notated version: a MS collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].

Printed sources: Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 4, p. 28.

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Tune properties and standard notation