Annotation:Hopkin's Corner
X:1 T:Hopkin's Corner M:6/8 L:1/8 B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A E|ABA ABc|efe efg|a2(a a)gf|edc {c}TB2E| ABA ABc|efe efg|aga Bc^d|e3 E2:| |:A|e2 (e e)dc|dBd cAc|B2(e e)dc|dBd cAc| E2(a a)gf|edc Bcd|cAc BGB|A3 A,2:||
HOPKIN'S CORNER. English, Jig (6/8 time). A Major (Thompson): D Major (Howe). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was first published in Charles and Samuel Thompson's 1757 country dance collection (London). It also appears in Norris & Sayer's Village Fifer (Exeter, N.H.) of 1808, and from there into Boston music publisher Elias Howe's Musician's Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (1880-1882).
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