O'Fenlon's Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"O'Fenlon's Hornpipe", in Gaelic "Crannciuil Ui Finnallain",<br> also known as "The Silver Box", "Vincent's Hornpipe" or<br> "Vinton’s Hornpipe" is an Irish hornpipe in B Flat Major.<br> The parts are played AABB.<br> It is a very popular hornpipe found in many printed and manuscript<br> collections under a variety of titles.<br> Samuel Bayard thinks the "Silver Box Hornpipe" (dated c. 1770)<br> is a simple, perhaps early, version of the tune.<br> The hornpipe appears under this title<br> in London publishers Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson's Twenty-Four Country Dances<br> for the Year 1799. It also appears under this title in the mid-19th century<br> music manuscript papers of Long Island painter and musician William Sydney Mount.<br> Shropshire musician John Moore included it in his 1837–1840 music manuscript as<br> "St. Vincent's Hornpipe". John Burks' music manuscript, dated 1821, has a<br> version (as "Vincent's Hornpipe") similar to the one in Moore's manuscript, and<br> likewise is set in the key of B Flat.<br> All of these titles probably honor Admiral Jarvis, Lord St. Vincent, a<br> contemporary of the celebrated Lord Horatio Nelson and himself a hero of the<br> Napoleonic Wars and the victor of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.<br> The title "Vinton's", by which the tune appears in the Boston, Massachusetts,<br> publisher Elias Howe's various editions from the mid-19th century on is<br> probably a corruption of the original title honoring Jarvis.<br> Francis O'Neill (1903) prints the tune as "O'Fenlon's Hornpipe"<br> which is also presumably a mis-hearing of the name "Vinton’s Hornpipe."<br> It was printed in Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1982) (as "Vinton’s Hornpipe"),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940) (as "Vinton’s Hornpipe") and<br> Phillips' Fiddle Case Tunebook: British Isles (1989).<br>
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