Annotation:Lady Bateman's Hornpipe

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LADY BATEMAN'S HORNPIPE. Scottish? Irish?; Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. An 18th century Lady Bateman was a sister to Lady George Sackville, whose name appears as the title of another tune (see "Lady George Sackville Hornpipe") in James Alexander's Fifty New Scotch & Irish Reels & Hornpipe (c. 1826).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Alexander (Alexander’s Fifty New Scotch & Irish Reels & Hornpipes), c. 1826; No. 42, p. 21.

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