Annotation:Berwick Jockey (4)

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 BERWICK JOCKEY [3], THE. English, Triple or "Old" Hornpipe (3/2 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The melody is contained in the Joseph Kershaw manuscript. Kershaw was a fiddler who lived in Slackcote, Saddleworth, North West England, in the 19th century, and his manuscript dates from around 1820 onwards. The hornpipe was printed in a country dance collection in Dublin in the 1790's called Tracy’s selection of the present favorite country dances, although Irish provenance is not claimed for the melody, and, indeed, nearly all of the pieces in the collection appear to be Scottish or English in origin. Tracy was a dancing master practicing in the city. Frank Roche's "Berwick Jockey (1)" is a variant.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Knowles (The Joseph Kershaw Manuscript), 1993; No. 9.  Recorded sources:

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