Annotation:Recluse Hornpipe
X:1 T:Recluse Hornpipe N:Based on the playing of fiddler Tommy Doucet (1902-1992, Nova Scotia & Boston), N:transcribed by Stacy Phillips M:C| L:1/8 R:Hornpipe B:Stephen F. Davis - Devil's Box, vol. 23, No. 4, Winter 1993 (p. 43) K:Eb |:((3Bcd|"Eb"e2) B4 eB|"G7"d2=B4 G2|"Ab"c2[A2c2]- [Ac]cBc|"Bb7"BcB=A _AGFD| "Eb"E2G2E2 ED|"Ab"C2 A,2c2=A,2|"Bb7"B,=A,B,D FAGF|"Eb"E2 B,2 [E2B2]:| (3agf||.g2 [E2B2] .b2 [E2B2]|"Bb7"f=efg f2 _ed|"Cm".e2c2.g2c2|"Bb7"d2G2 edcB| "Ab".c2A2.e2A2|"Eb"GABc B2 (3GFE|"Bb7"D2 Bc B2a2|"Eb"gabg eagf| .g2[E2B2].b2 [E2B2]|"Bb7"f=efb fdBd|"Cm".c2 C2 .e2C2|"Bb7"B=ABe BGED| "Ab"CEAc ecAE|"Eb"B,EGB eBGE|"Bb7"DB=AB cB_AD|"Eb"E2G2E2||
RECLUSE HORNPIPE. Scottish, Hornpipe. E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by early 20th century composer J.D. Michie (1884-1960), a musician, inventor, composer, teacher, poet and craftsman, who resided and kept a music shop in Brechin. He composed a hornpipe suite in the key of Eb (published in 1933) that consisted of "Autocrat (The)," "Jester (The)," and "Optimist (The)." A second hornpipe suite was preceded by a slow air ("Dying Year (The)" (dedicated to fiddler Angus Fitchet, who responded with a march, "Mr. Michie"), followed by "Cynic (The)," "Desclaimer (The)," and "Recluse (The)." The source for Nova Scotia/Boston fiddler Tom Doucet's (1902-1992) version of the tune, British fiddler Hiram Hosey, played in the J. Scott Skinner mode, according to Paul Cranford, with “…lots of bow work and flourishes.”
