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BUTTERFLY HORNPIPE. American, Reel (2/4 time). USA, Nebraska. A Major. Standard or AEae tunings (fiddle). AABB. See the related tune "Brilliancy." Fr. John Quinn also suggests comparison with William Bradbury Ryan's "Dew Drop Hornpipe" and "Larry O'Neil's Clog". "Butterfly Hornpipe" shares almost no strictly identical melodic material, while working the same melodic territory, moreover, the tunes are harmonically the same and have very similar melodic contours. They are as close as can be without being directly cognate, but the later "Butterfly Hornpipe" may well be a derivative.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Missouri Valley style, radio fiddler Bob Walters (d. 1960, Burt County, Nebraska) [Christeson, Phillips].

Printed sources : - R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 2), 1984; p. 9. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 184.






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