Annotation:Randall's Hornpipe

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X:1 T:Randall's Hornpipe M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Hornpipe S:Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion N:The final bar has been corrected (B2b2B2 in the edition). K:Bb (F/D/) | B,/B/A/B/ F/B/A/B/ | d/B/f/d/ b/(B/A/B/) | G/B/F/B/ E/B/D/B/ | c/d/e/c/ B/A/G/F/ | B,/B/A/B/ F/B/A/B/ | d/B/f/d/ b/(B/A/B/) | G/B/F/B/ E/B/D/B/ | G/e/A/c/ B :| |: (f/g/) | d/f/B/d/ F/B/D/B/ | d/B/F/D/ E/c/D/B/ | C/F/A/c/ e/c/A/F/ | B/b/f/d/ c(f/g/) | d/f/B/d/ F/B/D/B/ | d/B/F/D/ E/c/D/B/ | C/F/A/c/ e/c/A/c/ | Bb B :|

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RANDALL'S HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A heavily arpeggiated hornpipe that began as a New England regional tune and was adopted in several North American fiddling genres, from musicians as disperse as Texas, Kentucky, and Ontario. Bath County fiddler George Lee Hawkins' (1904-1991) version features a good example of what musicologist Chris Goertzen calls "dwell notes", i.e. 'rest' notes at the end of a phrase or cadence that are awarded extra beats by the fiddler, sometimes heard in Appalachian fiddle tunes. Hawkins stretches out his cadences with extra beats on the final note.