DORSETSHIRE HORNPIPE, THE. English, Hornpipe. D Major (Kennedy, Raven): B Flat Major (Howe, O'Neill, Wilson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. One of the tunes associated by Emmerson (1971) with the stage character solo-hornpipe dance. The melody also can be used for a schottische. The name Dorset stems from the Latin term Dornsaete, signifying the people whom made their homes around the Roman city of Dorchester (Matthews, 1972).
Additional notes Source for notated version : - Wilson's Companion to the Ball Room (1816) [O'Neill].
Printed sources : - Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 1), 1951; No. 12, pg. 6. Elias Howe (Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 633. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 319. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 166. Wilson (Companion to the Ball Room), 1816; p. 139.
