Annotation:Virginia Hornpipe (1)
X:1 T:Virginia Hornpipe [1] M:C L:1/8 R:Hornpipe S:Kerr – Merry Melodies, vol. 3, No. 357 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Dmin d>e | f>dc>A F>cA>c | c2 G>c E>cG>c | f>dc>A F>cA>c | G>Af>g a>gf>e | f>dc>A F>cA>c | E>cG>c E>cG>c | f>ed>c d>cA>G | F>GE>F D2 :| |: A2 | d>^cd>e f>ef>g | a>ga>b a>gf>e | d>^cd>e f>ef>g | a>gf>e d>cd>c | d>Ae>A f>Ag>A | a>ga>b a>gf>e | f>ed>c d>cA>G | F>GE>F D2 :|]
VIRGINIA HORNPIPE [1]. AKA and see "Fancy Clog Hornpipe," "Miss Hamilton's Reel," "Sterling Tom." Scottish, Irish; Hornpipe. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was earlier published by P.M. Haverty in One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2 (1858) as "Miss Hamilton's Reel." At about the same time as Kerr published his "Virginia Hornpipe [1]" a similar tune was published called "Fancy Clog Hornpipe" by blackface minstrel composer and performer biography:George H. Coes in his Coes Album of Jigs and Reels (1876). Coes tune has a number of concordances but also some melodic and harmonic differences, and may or may not be cognate or derivative (probably of "Miss Hamilton's Reel." See also note for "Sterling Tom" for more.
