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Annotation:Hawke's Hornpipe
X:1 T:Hawkes Hornpipe M:C| L:1/8 R:Hornpipe S:James Goodman (1828─1896) music manuscript collection, S:vol. 3, p. 169. Mid-19th century, County Cork Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amin GB|c2E2G3A|GAGE G3f|edec A2A2|AGAB AcBA| GEGA c2 cd|edef g2 c'b|agfe fedc|A2 AA A2:| |:ef|g2 ga gege|cdef g2 eg|a2 ab c'bag|e2a2a2 ab| c'bag afed|cdef g2 c'b|agfe fedc|A2 AA A2:|]
HAWKES HORNPIPE ("Cornphiope Ui Eachaigh" or "Crannciuil {Ui} Sea{l}baig"). AKA and see "Hawk's Hornpipe." Irish, Hornpipe. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Breathnach, Goodman, O'Neill/Krassen): AA'BB' (O'Neill/1850 & 1001). O'Neill (Irish Minstrels and Musicians, 1913) remarks on the difficulty in accurately transcribing a traditional improvisational performance into standard notation. A Chicago musical colleague of O'Neill's and a contributor to his works, uilleann piper Patsy Touhey, tried to learn "Hawk's Hornpipe" from the famous fiddler Biography:John McFadden (born in Carromore, Westport, County Mayo), when the latter was performing in the city in 1911. The two sat down together and progressed phrase by phrase, with Touhey submitting patiently to the many minor changes according to McFadden's fancy, until he though he had the tune noted correctly. Pleased with his effort, he played it back a final time, only to have McFadden say kindly, "Let me show you, Patsy," upon which he played the it again a couple of times. "Why, man alive, that's not how you gave it to me at all! You've changed the tune again; I guess we'll let it go this time," exclaimed Tuohey, who started to play something else on his pipes.
The tune appears in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection (vol. 3, p. 169) of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon biography:James Goodman as “Hawkes Hornpipe.” See also the related "Brian the Brave (1)"/"Poll Ha'Penny"/"Molly MacAlpin"/"Moll Halfpenny" family of tunes.
