Annotation:Wellington Hornpipe (1)
X:1 T:Wellington Hornpipe [1] M:C L:1/8 R:Hornpipe B:John Moore music manuscript (Shropshire c. 1837-40, Book 2, p. 73) B: https://www.vwml.org/topics/historic-dance-and-tune-books/Moore2 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G G2ge dcBA|(3Bcd FA GFED|A>D (3DDD B>D (3DDD|cABG GFED| G2 ge dcBA|(3Bcd FA GFED|GBAc Bdge|(3ded (3cBA G2 z2:| |:b3a gfe^d|e^def e2B2|e^def gfga|bgfg e3f| g3e dcBA|BdFA GFED|GBAc Bdge|(3ded (3cBA G2 z2:|]
WELLINGTON HORNPIPE [1]. English, Hornpipe. England, Shropshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Editor Ashman believes this may have been a locally composed hornpipe, since Wellington was a small semi-industrial town in east Shropshire where his source, John Moore, was born and worked; however, a variant called "Borobridge Hornpipe" appears in a Yorkshire MS collection of the mid-19th century, suggesting to him that perhaps the melody was more widely known and that only the name was local.
