Annotation:Gypsy Hornpipe (8)
X: 2 P: Gipsy Hornpipe [8] (Master Erskine) C: Niel Gow R: reel, hornpipe B: RSCDS 33-8 B: Astor's 24 Country Dances for the yer 1803 Z: 1997 by John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: C L: 1/8 K: C G2 \ | "C"GcBc GcBc | "C"ecgc "F"ac"C"gc | "C"GcBc GcBc | "D7"e2d2 "G7"d4 | | "C"GcBc GcBc | "C"ecgc "F"ac"C"gc | "G"GcBd "/A"ca"/B"gf | "C"e2"F"c2 "C"c2 :| |: ef \ | "C"gagf efed | "F"cdcB "G7"AGFE | "C"EGcG "Am"EFGE | "Dm"F2D2 "G7"D2ef | | "C"gagf efed | "F"cdcB "G7"AGFE | "C"EGcG "G7"Fagf | "C"e2"F"c2 "C"c2 :|
GYPSY HORNPIPE [8]. AKA and see "Master Erskine's Hornpipe." See also spellings under "Gipsy Hornpipe." The title "Gypsy Hornpipe" is often used as a title in fiddlers' manuscripts and printed sources. As Barry Callaghan (2007) points out, travellers or gypsies have long been conductors of musical tradition, carrying tunes from one place to another, particularly dance tunes. It is therefore no surprise that so many tunes have retained the generic name "Gypsy's..." The melody appears as an untitled hornpipe (No. 1069) in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Manchester, England, fiddler biography:John Roose.
