The Trumpet Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Trumpet Hornpipe", in Gaelic "Crannciuil Earglain" is also known as "The Trumpet<br> Reel", "Captain Pugwash", "Hasils’", "Reel du courrier" and "The Thunder Hornpipe" is an<br> Irish, Scottish and English hornpipe in G Major (Ashman, Craig, Hunter, Kerr, Martin,<br> O'Neill, Sweet), E Flat Major (Cranford, Honeyman, Skinner) or B Flat Major (Doyle).<br> The parts are played AB (Skinner), AAB (Hunter), ABB (Honeyman), AABB (Ashman, Craig,<br> Doyle, Kerr, Martin, O'Neill/1850), AA'BB (Cranford, Sweet) or AA'BB' (O'Neill).<br> It is a hornpipe (occasionally set as a reel) of unknown provenance, although it was contained<br> in a number of English musicians' manuscript collections of the first half of the 19th<br> century.<br> According to editor Gordon Ashman, "Today no one can play this tune without<br> the words 'Captain Pugwash' coming to mind." Captian Pugwash was a children’s show<br> (it ran on the BBC from 1957 - 1966) for which the "Trumpet Hornpipe" was used as a<br> theme. From this, "Captain Pugwash" is sometimes used as an alternate title.<br> The tune appears to have been<br> extremely popular from the mid-19th century, given its appearance in musician’s<br> manuscript collections of that era, although in modern times it is sometimes considered<br> somewhat of a beginner’s tune at English sessions. In the Joseph Kershaw manuscript<br> (c. 1820 onwards) the tune appears as "Hasils'", from North West England.<br> "Thunder Hornpipe" is an American variant (found in Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883).<br> Montreal fiddler Joseph Allard's (1873-1947) version is known as "Reel du courrier". <br> It was printed in<br> Ashman's The Ironbridge Hornpipe (1991),<br> Craig's The Empire Collection of Hornpipes (c. 1890’s),<br> Cranford's Winston Fitzgerald (1997),<br> Honeyman's Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor (1898),<br> Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1880),<br> Laybourn's Köhler’s Violin Repository, Book One (1881),<br> Martin's Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 2 (1988),<br> O'Neill (Krassen) (1976),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> Doyle's Plain Brown Tune Book (1997),<br> Skinner's Harp and Claymore (1904) and<br> Sweet's Fifer’s Delight (1965).<br> It was recorded by Jim MacLeod & His Band on Scottish Dances: Jigs, Waltzes and Reels<br> (1979),<br> The Jimmy Hogan Trio on Traditional Dance Music of Ireland (1958) and<br> Across the Pond on Across the Pond (2002).<br>
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