The Newcastle Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Newcastle Hornpipe", also known as "New Castle", "Newcastle Clog",<br> "McCormack's", "Newcastle Hill Clog" or "Prince Albert's Hornpipe" is a Scottish,<br> hornpipe known in Scotland, England, Northumberland, Canada and Cape Breton in<br> C Major (Hunter) or B Flat Major (Cranford, Hardie, Kerr, O'Malley).<br> The parts are played AB (Hardie, Hunter), AABB (Cranford) or AA'BB' (Kerr, O'Malley).<br> The tune has a range of more than two octaves and contains several jumps of more<br> than an octave. In the last measure of the A part the jump is two octaves.<br> It was composed by fiddler and renowned hornpipe composer James Hill (c. 1815-1853),<br> a native of Dundee who spent most of his life at Gateshead, northeast England, near<br> Newcastle, Northumberland.<br> Regarding an alternate title, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert officiated at the<br> opening in 1850 of the High Level Bridge and the Central Station in Newcastle, and<br> Hill may have been honoring both the monarchy and the new structures that graced his<br> city.<br> Famed Irish fiddler Michael Coleman recorded the tune in 1936 in New York under the<br> title "McCormack's", paired with another Hill composition ("High Level Hornpipe").<br> (Hill also composed "The Hawk" in this section.)<br> Canadian fiddler Don Messer recorded it as "Newcastle Hill".<br> It was printed in Cranford's Jerry Holland's Collection of Fiddle Tunes (1995) and<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1875),<br> Banalari's Celtic Encyclopedia (1999).<br> It was recorded by Michael Coleman (1936, as "McCormacks"),<br> Brian Conway on First Through the Gate (2002),<br> Don Messer, Larry Redican and on<br> The Early Recordings of Angus Chisholm (Cape Breton).<br>
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