Annotation:Duvil's Hornpipe
DUVIL'S HORNPIPE. American(?), Hornpipe (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. New York music publisher and flute player Edward Riley's "Duvil's Hornpipe" likely has an Irish or Scottish provenance. The first strain is cognate with "Drummond Lasses (The)" although the second strains differ. Researcher Connor Ward posits that R.M. Levey's "Eleventh of October" is a cognate tune, and, when "Duvil's" is transposed to the key of 'A' the correspondences are compelling. Although there are melodic differences, there is a relational similarity in contour, cadence and structure that strongly suggest relatedness.
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