Annotation:Ellis Knowles Hornpipe

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ELLIS KNOWLES HORNPIPE. English, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A rather difficult hornpipe to finger on the fiddle, from the Ellis Knowles ms. (where it is an untitled hornpipe, No. 40).  Source for notated version: the Ellis Knowles Manuscript, a selection of tunes compiled c.1845-48 probably in Radcliffe, Lancashire, England.  Printed sources: Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 13 (untitled hornpipe)  Recorded sources:

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