VILLAGE HORNPIPE [2]. American, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Bayard (1981) sees this tune as either a derivative or version of his "Sweet Ellen (2)/Sweet Ellum (2)," which also in Pennsylvania has been collected as "Hopple's Hornpipe," "Billy Howard's Tune," or by the floating "Billy in the Low Land," in Missouri as "Old Dubuque,” (see also Missouri fiddler Lymon Enloe’s “Back in ‘89”), and in Oklahoma (and other states) as "Last of Callahan." He sees it as American in origin, and though widespread in this country he cannot trace it to British Isles tradition. Elias Howe (c. 1867) prints contra-dance directions along with the tune.
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Printed sources : - Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 115. Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 101. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 89. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 152. White’s Unique Collection, 1896; No. 108, p. 19.
