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 "annotation:Sterling Tom" for more.
