Annotation:Booth's Hornpipe
X: 1 T:Booth's Hornpipe. PFD3.016 B:Playford, Dancing Master Vol 3, 2nd Ed, c1726 Z:village music project, Steve Mansfield 2015 R:.Hornpipe 3/2 M:C| L:1/8 W:Longways for as many as will W:The first couple lead Thro' the second couple, and turn single .| W:The second couple do the same |. The first couple go the whole W:figure of Eight .| The second couple do the same |: All four clap W:Hands with your Partners .| Then clap sides, and lead thro' and cast off |: N:Repeats inserted to match dance instructions N:No indication of repeats in Mss (e.g. no 'Each Strain twice') N:NB: Transcribed as in Mss. Transcriber strongly suspects this N:is actually a 3/2 hornpipe, mis-notated in Mss. Editor agrees. Q:2/4=90 K:Gm "NB" G4 D4 | GABG ABcA | B2d2 F2D2 | GABG ABcA |B4 d2cB | ABcA B2 G2 :| |: B4 def2 | A4 B3A |GABG F2D2 | g^fgd edec | dcdB D2G2 | GAB2 A2 G2 :| |: G2FE DCB,A, | G,4 GABG | ABcA F2D2 | G2FE DCB,A, |G,2f2 d2cB | ABcA B2G2 :|
BOOTH'S HORNPIPE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time) or "Old" or Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. "Booth's Hornpipe" was printed in London by the successor to the Playford publishing concerns, John Young, in his Third Volume of the Dancing Master, 2nd edition (1726, p. 16), along with directions for a country dance and set in duple-time. The dance and tune were also issued by rival London music publisher John Walsh in his Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master, editions of 1735 and 1754. John Offord (1985) re-barred the tune as a triple hornpipe (in 3/2).
