Annotation:Hyp Doctor (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
HYP DOCTOR, THE. AKA - "Hip Doctor (The)." AKA and see "Ship Doctor (The)." English, Slip Jig (9/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Peter Kennedy (1999) upgrades the spelling to "Hip Doctor." The tune, however, has some antiquity, first being published in John Johnson's Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol.5 (London, 1750, p. 3) as "The Hyp Doctor." It was reprinted by John Walsh in his Compleat Country Dancing-Master, volume the Fifth (London, 1754, p. 65) and in the London Magazine (1751, p. 80). London dancing master Thomas Wilson included it in his Companion to the Ball Room (1816, p. 22), although noted its provenance was "Irish." Jackie Small, editing Irish collector Brendan Breathnach, published it in Ceol Rince na hEirreann, vol. 4 (1996) as "The Ship Doctor."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), 1999; No. 30, p. 8.
Recorded sources: