Annotation:Vinton's Hornpipe
X: 10614 T: VINTON'S HORNPIPE C: %R: hornpipe, reel B: Elias Howe "The Musician's Companion" Part 1 1842 p.61 #4 S: http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Musician's_Companion_(Howe,_Elias) Z: 2015 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> N: The beaming in this tune isn't very consistent. M: C| L: 1/8 K: Bb % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - fe |\ d2B2 Bc dB | cBAG F2FE | DF BF dedB | cBAG F2fe | d2B2 B2gf | e2c2 c2cB | Acfa gbg=e | f2f2 f2 :| |: fe |\ .d(B~AB) .d(B~AB) | .G(EDE) .G(EDE) | cdec BcdB | ABcA F2fg | .f(B~AB) .g(B~AB) | .a(B~AB) .b(B~AB) | FGAB cdcA | B2B2 B2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
VINTON'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Silver Box (The)," "Vincent's Hornpipe," "St. Vincent's Hornpipe," "Lord St. Vincent," "O'Fenlon's Hornpipe." American, Hornpipe (cut time). USA; New England, southwestern Pa., Missouri. B Flat Major (Cole, Ford, Howe, Miller & Perron, Page, Phillips, Tolman): C Major: G Major (Bayard): A Major (Bruce & Emmett). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Bayard): AABB (most versions). A very popular hornpipe found in many printed an manuscript collections under a variety of titles, including “Vinton’s Hornpipe,” “Lord St. Vincent(‘s Hornpipe),” “St Vincent’s Hornpipe,” “The Silver Box” and “O’Fenlon’s Hornpipe.” Professor Samuel Bayard thinks the "Silver Box Hornpipe," dated c. 1770 (found in Alfred Moffat and Frank Kidson’s Dances of the Olden Time, 1912; p. 31), is a simple, perhaps early, version of the tune. As “Lord St. Vincent’s,” "St. Vincent's Hornpipe" or “Vincent’s Hornpipe” the hornpipe appears in several 19th century publications and manuscripts (there are also other tunes by those or similar titles, including "Earl St. Vincent's..."). The tune appears under this title in Thompson’s Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1799 (London, p. 33). It also appears under this title in the mid-19th century music manuscript papers of Long Island painter and musician William Sydney Mount. Shropshire musician John Moore included it in his 1837-1840 music manuscript as “St. Vincent’s Hornpipe,” dropping the ‘Lord’ from the title. John Burks’ music manuscript, dated 1821, has a similar version (as “Vincent’s Hornpipe”) to Moore’s, including being set in the key of B Flat. All of these titles honor Admiral Jarvis, Lord St. Vincent, a contemporary of the celebrated Lord Horatio Nelson’s and himself a hero of the Napoleonic Wars and the victor of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. The title “Vinton’s”, by which the tune appears in the Boston, Massachusetts, publisher Elias Howe’s various editions (from the mid-19th century on) is a probably a corruption of the original title honouring Jarvis. The piece is in the repertoire of Missouri fiddler Kelly Jones (b. 1947) who, having the ability to read music, learned the melody from Cole’s 1000 Fiddle Tunes, as previous generations of sight-reading mid-western fiddlers had learned this and similar tunes from both Cole’s 1000 and its predecessor, Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883), both Howe publications which included instructions for a contra-dance to the tune. Indeed, the tune seems common to many of Howe’s publications, notes Paul Tyler, and first appears in the 1844 edition of his Musician’s Companion (p. 61) {containing 18 setts of cotillions arranged with figures, and a large number of popular marches, quick-steps, waltzes, hornpipes, contra dances, songs, &c.&c.}. O’Neill prints the tune as “O'Fenlon's Hornpipe.” The melody also appears in Old Familiar Tunes, published by Theodore Presser Co. of Philadelphia, Pa.
