Annotation:Whipple's Hornpipe
X: 10611 T: WHIPPLE'S HORNPIPE C: %R: hornpipe, reel B: Elias Howe "The Musician's Companion" Part 1 1842 p.61 #1 S: http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Musician's_Companion_(Howe,_Elias) Z: 2015 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: 2/4 L: 1/16 K: Bb % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - F2 |\ FBBc Bdfg | fd(bg) (gf)df | gfdB cBGA | BcBG GFFF | GABc Bdfg | fd(bg) (gf)df | gfbg gfdf | (ge)cA B2 :| |: (3(FGA) |\ B2df bagf | dfba gfed | e2ed c2cB | AcBG FDED | B,DFB Bdcd | Bdfe gecA | Bdfb gecA | B2B2B2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
WHIPPLE'S HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe. B Flat Major (most versions): G Major (Miller). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Boston publisher Elias Howe printed instructions for a contra-dance to the tune in his 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867), and dance figures only to "Whipple's Hornpipe" in his American dancing master, and ball-room prompter (1866, p. 84). The same dance instructions were printed in Prompting: How to do it (Boston, 1890), by John M. Schell, "One of Boston's Leading Prompters." It seems likely the hornpipe's appearance in Glasgow publisher James S. Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 (c. 1880's) is a borrowing from the earlier Howe publications. An identical title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.
