The Belfast Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Belfast Hornpipe", also known as "Clog des laboureurs", "Royal Belfast", "Millicent's<br> Hornpipe", "Millicen's Favourite", "Millicent’s Favourite", "Sweep's Hornpipe",<br> "Great Eastern Hornpipe" or "The Great Western Hornpipe" is an Irish, English and Scottish<br> hornpipe in D Major. The parts are played AABBC (Martin) or AABBCC (Allan, Kennedy, O'Neill).<br> The melody was printed under the generic title "Lancashire Clog" in Elias Howe's Musician's<br> Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (Boston, 1880-1882) and soon after as "Millicent's Hornpipe" in a<br> collection by Glasgow publisher James S. Kerr; but by the 1920's had acquired the title<br> "Belfast Hornpipe" (among other titles) by which it was printed in Allan's Irish Fiddler.<br> As "The Sweep's Hornpipe" it was button accordion player Joe Derrane's signature tune.<br> Quebec fiddler Albert Allard recorded the hornpipe, note for note the same as<br> "Belfast Hornpipe", in Montreal in 1938 as "Clog des laboureurs".<br> The name Belfast means 'crossing place by a sandbank'.<br> It was printed in Elias Howe's Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (1880-1882),<br> Kennedy's Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 2 (1951)("The Lass on the Strand"),<br> Martin's Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 2 (1988),<br> McDermott's Allan's Irish Fiddler (1920's) and<br> Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976).<br>
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