Annotation:Roaring Hornpipe (The)

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ROARING HORNPIPE, THE. England, Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). England, Wales. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Roaring Hornpipe is one of the dances that were noted by William Jones (c.1729-95), Llangadfan, Montgomery, enclosed in a letter to Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), the author of Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784). It is an intricate longways set dance for a party of six, and was discovered among the papers of Edwards Jones, harpist of Prince Regent, and was published in 1936 under the editorship of Lois Blake and W.S. Gwynn Williams. See note for "annotation:Rolling Hornpipe (The)" for more on this tune family.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Loïs Blake, ‎William Sidney Gwynn Williams (Welsh Morris and other Country Dances), 1938;

Recorded sources: - Marquis ‎7 7471 81261 2 2, Crasdant - "Welsh Traditional Music" (2000).



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