Annotation:Savin Hill Hornpipe
X: 10401 T: SAVIN HILL HORNPIPE C: %R: hornpipe, reel B: Elias Howe "The Musician's Companion" Part 1 1842 p.40 #1 S: http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Musician's_Companion_(Howe,_Elias) Z: 2015 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: C| L: 1/8 K: F % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - .c.B |\ AFAc fagf | ebge cBAG | Acfa bgaf | e2c2 cdcB | AFAc fagf | eage cBAG | AfdB AcGc | A2F2F2 :| |: cf |\ afcf c'agf | gceg bgfe | fedc Bagf | e2c2 cdcB | AFAc fagf | edcB AGFE | DfdB AcGc | A2F2F2 :| |: cB |\ ABGA FAcf | efde cega | afga bgaf | e2c2 c2fe | dfdf cfBf | dfdf cfBf | AfdB AcGc | A2F2F2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
SAVIN HILL HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe or Reel (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Savin Hill is a neighborhood in Dorchester, in the city of Boston. It was originally settled in the 1630's and was known as Rocky Hill. An estate was built there in the early 1800's by the Wiswall family, who sold it in to Joseph Tuttle. Tuttle transformed and enlarged the Wiswall House into a seaside hotel for the wealthy, renaming it The Tuttle House, success guaranteed as it was on a stagecoach line and eventually on a railroad line. Tuttle also changed the name of this section of Dorchester to Savin Hill as the top of the hill was covered in a type of Juniper tree known as Savin Juniper.
"Savin Hill" was entered in an anonymous musician's manuscript collection of 1826-1859, probably from the state of Maine, entitled Melodist: A Collection of music in two volumes (No. 33, p. 19).
