Annotation:Parisot's Hornpipe

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X:1 T:Parisot's Hornpipe M:C L:1/8 R:Hornpipe Q:"Allegro" B:Thomas Wilson - Companion to the Ball Room (1816, p. 136) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G B>A|G>FG>A B>AB>G|c>dc>B A2 B>A|G>FG>A B>AB>G|A>GF>E D2 B>A| G>FG>A B>AB>G|c>dc>B A2 d>c|B>dG>B A>cF>A|G2G2G2|| A>G|F>GE>F D2 c>B|A>BG>A F2 e>d|cAed cAed|cBcB cAGF| G>FG>A B>AB>G|c>dc>B A2 d>c|B>dG>B A>cF>A|G2G2G2||



PARISOTT'S. AKA and see "Madam Parisott's Hornpipe," "Whiskey Barrel." AKA – “Parasott.” English, American; Hornpipe. C Major (Cole, Ryan): D Major (Harding): G Major (O’Neill, Wilson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was published in America by George P. Knauff under the title "Whiskey Barrel" in his Virginia Reels, volume I (Baltimore, 1839). Originally "Madam Parisott's Hornpipe," by the middle of the nineteenth century the title had typically been abbreviated to "Parisott Hornpipe." See note for "Annotation:Madam Parisott's Hornpipe" for more.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - copied from Wilson’s Companion to the Ballroom (1816) [O’Neill].

Printed sources : - Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 110. Hardings All Round Collection, 1905; No. 42, p. 12. Elias Howe (First Part of the Musician's Companion), 1842; p. 60. O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 330. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 146 (appears as “Parasott”).






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