Annotation:Grape Vine Twist Hornpipe
X:1 T:Grape Vine Twist C:P.B. Isaacs M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Sand Jig B:Coes Album of Jigs and Reels, something new, for professional and amateur violinists, B:leaders of orchestras, quadrille bands, and clog, reel and jig dancers; consisting of a B:Grand Collection of entirely New and Original Clog-Hornpipes, Reels, jigs, B:Scotch Reels, Irish Reels and Jigs, Waltzes, Walk-Arounds, etc. (1876, p. 50) N:Coes performed with the San Francisco Minstrels in California from 1852 to 1859. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:E (B/A/)|.G.A .F(B/A/)|G/B/e/f/ g/e/B/A/|.G.A .F(B/A/)|G/B/e/f/ e/c/B/A/| GA F(B/A/)|G/B/e/f/ g/e/B/A/|.G.A .F(B/A/)|G/B/e/g/ ez:| |:(d/e/)|f/B/ {c}(3B/A/B/ g/B/ {c}(3B/A/B/|a/B/ {c}(3B/A/B/ g/B/ {c}(3B/A/B/|f/B/g/B/ a/B/f/e/|d/e/f/g/ fd/e/| (f/B/) {c}(3B/A/B/ (g/B/) {c}(3B/A/B/|(a/B/) {c}(3B/A/B/ (g/B/) {c}(3B/A/B/|f/B/g/B/ a/B/g/B/|{g}f/e/d/f/ ez:|]
GRAPE VINE TWIST HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe (2/4 time). E Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Grape Vine Twist Hornpipe" was composed by P.B. Isaacs and first printed in blackface minstrel musician and composer George H. Coes' Coes Album of Jigs and Reels (1876). The Grape Vine Twist was a minstrel era dance or series of dance steps.
