Annotation:Cape Cod Hornpipe (2) (The)

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 CAPE COD HORNPIPE [2], THE. American, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. Composed by Falmouth, Massachusetts, musician and writer Bill Black [www.capeirish.com/webabc]. Cape Cod was named on the 15th of May, 1602, by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, a Cornishman from Falmouth who sailed north from Virginia and 'took great store of cod fish' off the peninsula in the closing years of the reign of Elizabeth I.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Black (Music's the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 194, pg. 103.  Recorded sources:

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