Annotation:Butcher's Hornpipe (1)
X:1 T:Bucher's Hornpipe [sic] T:Butcher's Hornpipe [1] M:C| L:1/8 R:Hornpipe S:William Vickers' music manuscripts (1770) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G DE/F/|G2 G>G G2 F>E|DCB,A, G,A,B,G,|G2 G>G G2 c>B|AGFE DEFD| E2 E>E EGFE|DCB,A, G,2 Bc|dBGB cAFA|G2 G>G G2:| |:Bc|d2 d>d d2 e>f|gefd e2 AB/c/|d2 d>d d2 ef|gefd e2 cB/A/| B2 BB BdcB|AGFE D2 Bc|dBGB cAFA|G2 G>G G2:||
BUTCHER'S HORNPIPE [1], THE. AKA - "Bucher's Hornpipe." AKA and see "Porto Bello (2)," "Portobellow," "Portobellow Hornpipe," "Ridotta (The)." English, Hornpipe. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Matt Seattle, in notes to his Great Northern Tunebook, an issue of the 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers, notes that the tune is an early example of the dotted duple hornpipe, a form more common to later centuries. "Butcher's Hornpipe" was printed earlier in the 18th century by London publisher J. Johnson in his Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, c. 1740-42, which Bruce Olson believes is probably itself a reprint of an earlier (though apparently lost) collection issued by dancing master Daniel Wright (see "Butcher's Hornpipe (3)" for Wright's triple-hornpipe version). A related version, also with the "Butcher's Hornpipe" title, appears in the William Calvert (Leburn, Yorkshire) manuscript of 1812.
