The Banks
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Banks", also known as "The Banks Hornpipe", "Banks of the River", "Parazotti", "Kinloch's<br> Grand Hornpipe", "Morgan's Hornpipe", "Mrs. Taff" or "Souvenir de Venice" is a Scottish, Canadian<br> and Irish hornpipe in E Flat Major (Scottish versions, primarily) or G Major (Black).<br> The parts are played AAB (Black, Honeyman, Martin): AA'B (Silberberg): AABB (Brody, Hardie,<br> Hunter, O'Malley, Skinner). The B part is 16 measures long.<br> "Composed by Parazotti" is an ascription often found attached to this tune, sometimes called a<br> 'descriptive hornpipe', or (by Skinner) a 'Classical hornpipe'. It has become a tune by which<br> good fiddlers are judged and, as a virtuoso piece, is played by fiddlers from several different<br> styles and genres.<br> The tune was inspired by the sights and sounds of a river in flood. The melody appears first in<br> print in 1881 in Kohlers' Violin Repository (Book 1) under the title "Mrs. Taff" (whom Hardie<br> explains was a person who resided on the West coast of Scotland and was Parazotti's patron for a<br> time. It is said she was the owner of the house in which Parazotti composed his tune). The piece<br> is similar to the tune "Souvenir De Venice Hornpipe" in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883).<br> "Souvenir" has also been credited to L. Ostinelli, an Italian who arrived in Boston in the year<br> 1818.<br> It was printed in Black's Music's the Very Best Thing (1996),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Cranford's Winston Fitzgerald (1997),<br> Honeyman's Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor (1898),<br> Hardie's Caledonian Companion (1992),<br> Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988),<br> Johnson's A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection (2003),<br> Martin's Traditional Scottish Fiddling (2002),<br> O'Malley's Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music (1976),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002) and<br> Skinner's Harp and Claymore (1904). <br> It was recorded by Tom Doucet on The Down East Star (1975),<br> Frank Ferrel on Yankee Dreams: Wicked Good Fiddling from New England (1991),<br> Jean Carignan on Old Time Fiddle Tunes (1968),<br> Andy McGann and Paddy Reynolds on My Love is in America: The Boston College Irish Fiddle<br> Festival (1991),<br> Sean McGuire on Ireland's Champion Traditional Fiddler,<br> Jean Carignan on Jean Carignan,<br> Tom Anderson and Aly Bain on The Silver Bow,<br> Joe Cormier on Scottish Violin Music from Cape Breton Island (1974),<br> J. Scott Skinner on The Strathspey King and<br> Seamus and Manus McGuire on Humours of Lissadell (1980).<br>
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