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Hornpipes |
| Title |
Ryan |
Coles |
Notes |
| Aldridge's |
120 |
86 |
DM: Irish-born Robert Aldridge was a famed hornpipe
dancer of the late 18th century who performed on stage in
Dublin, London and Edinburgh. See article by Andrew Kuntz in
Fiddler magazine. |
| American Rifle Team |
137 |
102 |
DM: The victories of the American rifle team against
an Irish team in 1874 and '75, and over competition from
Ireland, Scotland, Australia and Canada in 1876 inspired the
composition of several songs and instrumental pieces. |
| Ariel |
124 |
90 |
DM: AKA Ball and Pin (Ryan p133) |
| Babbit's |
151 |
113 |
NG: Smith's Hornpipe.
HH: Also in Ryan/Cole as Myopia. |
| Balkan |
|
91 |
HH: Jerry Hayes (a reel) |
| Ball and Pin |
133 |
98 |
DM: AKA Ariel (Ryan p133). |
| Bees' Wings |
126 |
91 |
DM: Composition of Tyneside fiddler James Hill, named
for a champion thoroughbred. |
| Belle of Claremont |
142 |
106 |
DM: O'Neill's Belles of Clonallan. |
| Best Shot |
147 |
109 |
DM: A G-major setting of Fly-by-Night
(Ryan p160). |
| Buckley's |
136 |
100 |
DM: Fred Buckley, to whom this tune is attributed in
Ryan's, was a fiddler in Buckley's minstrels, sometimes called
"Master Ole Bull" (after the Norwegian violin
virtuoso). He was born in England 1833, died in Boston 1864.
Buckley's Minstrels (or "Congo Melodists"), who
began playing in 1843, pioneered blackface minstrelsy in
Boston. |
| Buena Vista |
148 |
111 |
DM: Probably so named to commemorate the battle of
Buena Vista in the Mexican War. |
| Byrne's Favorite |
145 |
108 |
DM: O'Neill's Alexander's. |
| Cincinnati |
121 |
87 |
DM: AKA Harvest Home or Cork Hornpipe. |
| City of Savannah |
142 |
106 |
DM: The "City of Savannah" was the first
steamship to cross the Atlantic.
|
| College |
120 |
86 |
DM: O'Neill's Jack's the Lad, from the song of
that name. First published, according to Lisa Ornstein, in
Thompson's Complete Collection of 120 Favourite Hornpipes as
Perform'd at the Public Assemblies (London, c1775), where it
appears as The Colledge (vol 1, #18). |
| Cuckoo |
143 |
106 |
DM: Similar to O'Neill's Cuckoo's Nest (first
setting). |
| Czar of Russia's Favorite |
151 |
114 |
DM: Ryan's has this in F. It is is D in Kerr's I as
West's Hornpipe, perhaps after a dancing partner of
Johnnie Queen (see notes for Johnnie
Queen's, Ryan p159). |
| Democratic |
125 |
91 |
NG: Galway Bay Hornpipe
DM: O'Neill's Galway Bay. |
| Democratic Rage |
136 |
100 |
DM: O'Neill's One of the Boys. |
| Dick Sand's |
136 |
100 |
DM: George R. "Dick" Sands was a famed
minstrel clogger born in England in the 1840s. He died in New
York City in 1900. |
| Douglas' Favorite |
137 |
102 |
DM: O'Neill's Mountains of Kerry. |
| Dundee |
146 |
110 |
DM: O'Neill's Kildare Fancy. |
| Durang's |
128 |
94 |
DM: Named for a famed early 19th-century American
stage dancer John Durang. |
| Duxbury |
146 |
110 |
NG: Dundee Hornpipe etc |
| Elks' Festival |
138 |
102 |
DM: These two parts are frequently found as the last
parts of The Derry Hornpipe. |
| Ferry Bridge |
130 |
95 |
DM: The version now most often heard was recorded by the
melodeon-playing Wyper Brothers of Scotland in the early 20th
century and is now called simply Wypers. |
| Florida Crackers |
148 |
111 |
DM: "Cracker" (short for "whip
cracker") is now mostly heard as an anti-white
pejorative, but it once had a more benign connotation as a
nickname for Florida or Georgia natives (see Georgia
Crackers, Ryan p140). |
| Fred Wilson's |
135 |
100 |
DM: Wilson was a Boston clog dancer and blackface minstrel born
1827. The tune is an F-major version of O'Neill's
Higgins' (for Conn Higgins). AKA The Cliff
(Kerr's I) or Ruby and closely related to The
Harvest Home (see Cincinnati, (Ryan p121). |
| Georgia Crackers |
140 |
104 |
DM: "Cracker" (short for "whip
cracker") is now mostly heard as an anti-white
pejorative, but it once had a more benign connotation as a
nickname for Florida or Georgia natives (see Florida
Crackers, Ryan p148). |
| Great Western |
155 |
117 |
NG: Millicent's Fav; The Belfast HP.
HH: Aka The Sweep's. |
| Highland |
123 |
90 |
NG: High Level Hornpipe by James Hill
DM: AKA Velocipede (p147). The tune is actually
The High Level, attributed to Northumbrian fiddler
James Hill. |
| Hull's Victory |
140 |
103 |
DM: Isaac Hull commanded the Constitution in the
famous 1812 sea victory over the H.M.S. Guerriere. |
| Irish |
139 |
103 |
DM: O'Neill's O'Connor's Favorite. |
| Jim Clark's |
126 |
91 |
DM: O'Neill's Clark's |
| Jock Tamson's |
144 |
108 |
DM: After a character in Scottish dialect songs.
"We're all Jock Tamson's weans" - Robert Burns. |
| Juniata |
139 |
103 |
DM: AKA Pushee's (Ryan p122) and O'Neill's
Handy Man. Juniata County is in Pennsylvania. |
| London |
122 |
88 |
NG: This is The Navvie or The Navvie
On the Line by James Hill. |
| Mazeppa |
141 |
105 |
A Byron poem and a Tchaikovsky opera are based on the tale of
Mazeppa, a handsome young Cossack nobleman who was
double-crossed by the elderly fiancé of his beloved, tied to
a wild horse and driven into the steppes (he survives to
fight in the Napoleonic wars). Andrew Ducrow's adaptation,
which debuted in England in 1831, was wildly popular in the
U.S. in the 1860s because the scantily clad actress Adah
Isaacs Menken played Mazeppa, a switch on the usual
19th-century theater practice of young men playing
"wench" roles. The popularity of touring
"Mazeppa" companies probably inspired the naming of
Mazeppa, Minnesota and Mazeppa, Alberta. |
| Miss Barker's |
134 |
99 |
NG: The Rocket (Jerry Holland's coll) |
| Miss Johnson's |
|
104 |
HH: Whiskey You're the Devil (OMI). Also in
Ryan/Cole as Silver Cluster reel.
DM: O'Neill's Off to California, not his reel
by this name.
|
| Morning Fair |
121 |
87 |
DM: AKA Texarkana (Ryan p132). O'Neill's
Tomorrow Morning. |
| Morpeth's |
145 |
108 |
NG: AKA The Morpeth Rant |
| Mountain Ranger |
138 |
102 |
DM: AKA Rose-Bud reel (p33). O'Neill's
Mountain Top. Related to Dundee/Duxbury/Kildare
Fancy family of tunes. |
| Myopia |
145 |
108 |
NG: Smith's HP
HH: Also in Ryan/Cole as Myopia. |
| Ned Kendall's |
121 |
87 |
DM: Keyed bugle virtuoso (1808-1861) who performed in
a famed head-to-head competition with cornetist P.S. Gilmore.
See Fiddler magazine article by Andrew Kuntz. |
| New Brig of Glasgow |
165 |
125 |
NG: Miss Gibson's (K3) |
| New Century |
123 |
90 |
DM: Not the tune in O'Neill's by this name. |
| Norfolk |
118 |
86 |
DM: AKA Shaw's Reel (Ryan p78). O'Neill's
Men of Ulster. See also Whiddon's (Ryan p119).
|
| Norton's Favourite |
|
106 |
HH: Remembrance of Dublin (OMI). Also in
Ryan/Cole as The Spring Garden.
DM: AKA Remembrance of Dublin (Ryan p156).
Jimmy "the Boss Jig Player" Norton was a Boston
fiddler who grew up in the Norton "juvenile
minstrels" troupe. |
| Obelisk |
151 |
114 |
DM: O'Neill's Bashful Bachelor. |
| Olive-Branch |
152 |
114 |
DM: O'Neill's Reconciliation. |
| Oriental |
128 |
94 |
DM: O'Neill's Boys from the East. |
| Parasott |
146 |
110 |
DM: C version of a tune known as Madame
Parisott's, which may be a corruption of Parazotti, to
whom The Banks has been attributed. |
| Prince Regent's |
153 |
115 |
DM: After George IV of England, who ruled as regent
from 1811-1820 due to the insanity of his father George III. |
| Princess |
131 |
95 |
DM: AKA Tammany Ring clog
(Ryan p157). The Wonder (probably composed by James
Hill) in Kerr's I. O'Neill's Coey's and (in G)
Southern Shore. |
| Pushee's |
122 |
88 |
DM: AKA Juniata (Ryan p139). Abram Pushee
(1791-1868) was a fiddler, dancing master and bandleader who
lived most of his life in Lebanon, NH. |
| Queen of the West |
138 |
101 |
DM: Recorded by influential Armagh fiddler Brendan
McGlinchey as The Tosspot. |
| Quindaro |
139 |
104 |
DM: Named for a Kansas town founded by abolitionists
in 1856 and subsequently abandoned. |
| Rickett's |
124 |
111 |
DM: Named for circus performer John Bill Ricketts, a
late 18th-century Scots immigrant to Philadelphia whose big
trick was to dance a hornpipe on the back of a galloping
horse. The tune itself was originally called Aldridge's
after Irish-born dancer Robert Aldridge. See note for
Aldridge's (Ryan p170) and articles on Aldridge and
Ricketts by Andrew Kuntz in Fiddler magazine. In Kerr's I and
Allan's Irish Fiddler as The Manchester Hornpipe.
O'Neill has it as Sailor's Hornpipe (second setting). |
| Salem |
120 |
86 |
DM: O'Neill's Gilmore's. Attributed by Ryan's to
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (born Dublin 1829, died St Louis,
Missouri 1892). Gilmore served with British army in Canada
then moved to Salem, Mass., where he became known as a
minstrel performer and cornet virtuoso. He was later a
celebrated brass band leader in New York City. |
| Sally Growler |
151 |
114 |
DM: A "Sally Growler" is a sea raven (AKA
puff belly, sea robin, mother-in-law fish), but the names of
both this extremely ugly cold water fish and the tune
probably derive from another now-obscure source. |
| Sans Souci |
134 |
95 |
DM: The first of several hornpipes in Ryan's attributed
to G.L. Tracy. George Lowell Tracy (1855-1921) was a composer
of light opera according to musicologist Charles Wolfe.
Sans Souci ("carefree" in French) was
the name of the Prussian emperor Frederick II's mid-18th
century palace in Potsdam. |
| Saratoga |
137 |
102 |
DM: Named for the upstate New York resort best known
for its summer horse racing. A G-major version was adapted to
the button accordion by Joe Burke, who recorded it as The
Smell of the Bog. |
| Sebastopol |
120 |
86 |
DM: The Russian port became famous during an 1854
Crimean War siege. |
| Shunster's |
136 |
100 |
NG: Sunshine Hornpipe (DMI)
DM: AKA St Elmo (Ryan p132). |
| Silver Star |
136 |
100 |
DM: O'Neill's Twilight Star. |
| Souvenir de Venice |
147 |
109 |
DM: Attributed by Ryan's to Louis Ostinelli (see
Ostinelli's, Ryan p67), this is a variation on
The Banks, a hornpipe credited to the now obscure
Scottish violinist Parizotti. |
| St Elmo |
132 |
98 |
NG: Sunshine Hornpipe (DMI)
DM: Shunster's (Ryan p136). O'Neill's
Sunshine. St Elmo is the patron saint of sailors, but
the tune may be named for St Elmo, Colorado, a mining boom
town that sprang up in 1879, or Augusta Evans Wilson's wildly
popular 1867 novel St Elmo, for which the town was named. |
| Steamboat |
148 |
110 |
DM: O'Neill's Tim, the Turncoat, the first part
of which is pretty much the same as his Goodnatured Man.
NG: I believe this is one of James Hill's compositions. |
| Texarkana |
132 |
98 |
DM: AKA Morning Fair (Ryan p121). O'Neill's
Tomorrow Morning. |
| Velocipede |
147 |
110 |
DM: "Velocipede" is an old name for a
bicycle. This is The High Level. See notes for
Highland (Ryan p123). |
| Vendome |
148 |
112 |
NG: AKA The Independent
DM: Named for a French town, or perhaps the Place
Vendôme in Paris, site of a column honoring Napoleon
demolished during the Paris Commune in 1871 and rebuilt in
1874. The tune is The Independent in the Darley and
McCall collection published in Dublin in the early 20th
century. |
| Vinton's |
124 |
90 |
DM: O'Neill's O'Fenlon's. |
| Wade Hampton's |
138 |
101 |
DM: Named for the South Carolina Confederate general
and later U.S. senator. Attributed to Frank Livingston, whose
name is attached to a number of tunes in Ryan's with
Southern-themed titles. The tune was recorded in the 1950s by
button accordion great Paddy O'Brien. |
| Whiddon's |
119 |
85 |
DM: Probably from W.H. Whiddon, credited by Ryan's
on The Norfolk Hornpipe (p118), the first part of which
resembles the second part of Whiddon's. This part is a
floater that also turns up in O'Neill's Wily Old
Bachelor (as pointed out by Lisa Ornstein.) |
|
4/4 Jigs |
| Title |
Ryan |
Coles |
Notes |
| Bird on the Wing |
117 |
83 |
DM: First part resembles the fifth part of
Kitty O'Neil's Champion (Ryan p112). |
| Black Sheep |
112 |
80 |
DM: Attributed by Ryan's to fiddler Dick Myers (born
Baltimore 1809, died Philadelphia 1874), who performed in the
1840s with the Virginia Serenaders. His blackface stage name
was "Ole Bull", after the famous touring Norwegian
violin virtuoso. |
| Bob Chadduck's |
113 |
80 |
DM: AKA King-Pin (Ryan p117) |
| Dar's Sugar in De Gourd |
118 |
84 |
DM: Ryan's attributes this to James Buckley of the
Boston-based minstrel family. Born in 1803 in Manchester,
England, he authored a banjo tutor in 1860 and died in
Quincy, Massachusetts in 1872. See notes on
Buckley's (Ryan p136). |
| H -' on the Wabash |
114 |
81 |
DM: In 1883 you couldn't print "Hell"
(though "Nigger" was allowable). This tune is
attributed to Dan Emmett, the minstrel fiddler and banjo
player who also took credit for the song Dixie. |
| Harry Bloodgood's Famous |
118 |
84 |
DM: Bloodgood, who led his own minstrel troupe, was
the composer of Poor Old Rufe (or Rube), a
popular blacface song printed in Minstrel Songs Old and New
(Boston, 1883). |
| Jersey Lightning |
113 |
80 |
DM: In Prohibition days, and probably much earlier,
Garden State "moonshine" was known as "Jersey
Lightning." Frank Quinn recorded an unrelated song by
this name. |
| King-Pin |
117 |
83 |
DM: AKA Bob Chadduck's (Ryan p113) |
| Kitty O'Neil's Champion |
112 |
80 |
DM: This tune is a "sand jig," i.e., a
shuffle dance performed on a sand-strewn stage or, in more
recent times, a sandbox placed on the stage. The name honors
the most famous female "jig" dancer on the American
variety stage in the 1870s and '80s. A version of the first
two parts was printed as Kitty O'Neil c. 1867 in Howe's
1000 from the playing of Boston fiddler Jimmy "the Boss
Jig Player" Norton. The fifth of seven parts resembles
the first part of Bird on the Wing (Ryan p117), while
the second part is much like that of Phil Isaac's
(Ryan p112). Revived (as Kitty O'Shea) by Tommy
Peoples in the 1970s and since recorded by Kevin Burke, among
others. |
| Kitty Sharpe's Champion |
117 |
83 |
DM: Named for a variety stage dancer of who performed
in the Bowery beer hall theaters of New York in the 1880s.
This tune would seem to have been composed by the same hand
that authored Kitty O'Neill's Champion. O'Neill printed
the first two parts as Everybody's Fancy. Kerr's II
reprinted it from Ryan's. |
| Nigger in De Woodpile |
114 |
82 |
DM: Another tune attributed to Dan Emmett in Hans
Nathan's biography of the minstrel.
NG: In Cole's this is simply called The Wood Pile. |
| Oakland Garden |
115 |
82 |
DM: Oakland Garden was a Boston theater. Ryan's
attributes this tune to Edwin Christie, a singer and banjo
player born in Philadelphia in 1815 and the founder of the
original Christie's Minstrels. Christie popularized (and took
credit for) some of Stephen Foster's songs. He committed
suicide in New York in 1862. |
| Phil Isaac's |
112 |
80 |
DM: Isaac was a fiddler born in London in 1831. In
1857 he became a founding member of Bryant's Minstrels. He
died in San Francisco in 1865. The second part of this tune
is quite similar to the second part of Kitty O'Neil's
Champion. |
| Root, Hog, or Die |
118 |
84 |
DM: A minstrel song/dance tune attributed to Dan
Emmett. |
| Tidal Wave |
112 |
80 |
DM: Attributed by Ryan's to Eddie Fox, a minstrel
fiddler of the 1870s and '80s who also composed the songs
Carry the News to Mary and Goodbye Liza Jane. |
| Tom Briggs |
113 |
80 |
DM: Briggs was a prominent minstrel-era banjo player
who in 1855 published a banjo tutor. He is also credited with
inventing the banjo "thimble" (used for rapid
tremolo picking) in 1848. |
|
Clogs |
| Title |
Ryan |
Coles |
Notes |
| Bernardo's Favorite |
158 |
119 |
DM: O'Neill's Humors of Castle Bernard. |
| City Life |
155 |
117 |
DM: AKA Showman's Fancy (Roche collection,
Allan's Irish Fiddler) |
| Dickie Rodger's Pedestal |
159 |
121 |
DM: Dickie is obscure, but clogging on a pedestal was
a popular variety specialty. |
| Fagan and Fenton's |
160 |
121 |
DM: Barney Fagan (born in Boston, 1850) and John
Fenton had a dance double act in the mid 1870s. The tune is
credited to J. Braham, most likely John Braham, a violinist
who led the orchestra at the Howard Athenaeum in Boston and
who composed numerous popular songs and dance tunes in the
1870s and '80s. His father Joseph led Tony Pastor's orchestra
while his uncle David Braham was Ned Harrigan's father-in-law,
musical director and songwriting collaborator. |
| Flee as a Bird |
154 |
116 |
DM: From Psalms 11:1 ("Flee as a Bird to your
mountain, thou who art weary of sin..."). |
| Gray's Opera House |
159 |
117 |
DM: O'Neill's Sweeps, Millicen's Favorite
or Royal Belfast in Kerr's I. |
| Great Western |
155 |
121 |
DM: The most prominent "Gray's Opera House"
was a Houston, Texas theater saved from fire in 1875. Oscar
Wilde lectured there in 1882. |
| Johnnie Queen's |
159 |
120 |
DM: Johnnie Queen was one of the best-known American
clog dancers of the late 19th century. "...Queen
electrified the English music halls when he went abroad for a
tour in the eighties. They found his triples, rolls, and
nerve steps uncanny, refused to believe he accomplished them
unaided by tricks, and caused him no end of embarrassment by
demanding to see his shoes. Queen stopped that by making his
entrance in his slippers and passing around his shoes for the
audience to examine, as proof that he used no clappers or
other Yankee gadgets." - Douglas Gilbert, American
Vaudeville: Its Life and Times, Whittlesey House (McGraw-Hill),
New York 1940. |
| Lee's Double Clog |
160 |
121 |
DM: Same as The Irish-American reel (Ryan p25) |
| Minnie Foster's |
156 |
118 |
DM: Named for a variety show actress who was a
celebrated blackface "Topsy" in performances of
Uncle Tom's Cabin. Recorded by Seán McGuire as
The Black Swan. |
| Minstrel's Fancy |
157 |
119 |
DM: O'Neill's McElligott's Fancy. Recorded by
flute player John McKenna as The Buck from the
Mountain. |
| Remembrance of Dublin |
156 |
118 |
DM: AKA Norton's Favorite Hornpipe (Ryan p143) |
| Statue |
155 |
117 |
DM: The "statue clog" was a variety show
specialty of the 1870s and '80s in which the performer posed
as a statue come to life on a pedestal. |
| Tammany Ring |
157 |
119 |
DM: See notes for
The Princess
(Ryan p131). This title is a reference to the corrupt
associates of New York's "Boss" Tweed, leader of
the Tammany Hall Democratic Party machine in New York in the
1870s.
Bill Black: I know that tune (in the key of G) as
The Southern Shore. It has other names as well, none
of which can I recall. The Dubliners recorded it years ago as
did Boston's (now Chicago's) fine fiddler Brendan Bulger.
Michael Hogan: This is The Wonder Hornpipe...
Andrew Pickering: ...composed by James Hill. The title
presumably refers to a racehorse.
PdG: Patty Furlong recorded it on her self-titled CD
as Coey's Hornpipe.
Jeff Lindqvist: It's recorded in G (G sharp) on the
De Dannan's Hibernian Rhapsody (in the set
George Ross' Hornpipes). |
|
Strathspeys |
| Title |
Ryan |
Coles |
Notes |
| Bonnie Lassie |
168 |
-- |
DM: Usually known as Miss Lyall (as in Kerr's I).
O'Neill's reel setting is Paddy Ryan's Dream. |
| Braes of Bushbie, The |
167 |
128 |
DM: The orignal of Dowd's Favorite, a reel
recorded by Michael Coleman.
NG: Published in Scottish fiddler John Bowie's
1789 collection, and was said to have been a favourite of Niel
Gow. There is a village outside Glasgow called Busbie or
Busby. |
| Here Awa' ("Fling") |
170 |
-- |
DM: Frank Roche's Favourite (Roche collection),
Lady Ann Hope (Kerr's I). |
I'll Cloot My Johnny's
Gery Breeks |
167 |
127 |
DM: Strathspey version of The Rose Tree in Full
Bearing, AKA Port Lairge, etc. "Gery" is
probably a misprint for "Grey." |
| Loch Eroch Side |
167 |
128 |
DM: The original of the polka The Lakes of Sligo. |
| Miss Drummond of Perth |
164 |
125 |
DM: AKA Titanic in Donegal, Devil in the
Kitchen in Cape Breton. |
| Neal Gow's Wife |
165 |
126 |
DM: O'Neill's The Watchmaker.
NG: Properly Niel Gow's Wife [K2v1p13], composed
by Duncan McIntyre. This tune, along with Jenny's
Bawbee [K2v1p4] and Loudon's Bonnie Woods [K2v1p19],
is played as The Shamrock and Thistle Highlands by
Donegal fiddler Danny O'Donnell. It's also played as a reel
in Ireland under the name The Watchmaker. |
| Roy's Wife |
162 |
123 |
DM: "as played by Niel Gow" First part is
that of Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch (Ryan p173) in
another key. |
Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch
("Fling") |
173 |
-- |
DM: See notes for Roy's Wife (Ryan p162). |
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