The Flying Dutchman
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Flying Dutchman" is an English hornpipe in G Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> The "Flying Dutchman" is credited in Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Book 2 (1881-1885)<br> to the great 19th century hornpipe composer and fiddler James Hill. Hill was born<br> in Dundonia, near Dundee, Scotland, between 1813 and 1819 but lived most of his<br> adult life in Tyneside, Newcastle, England. He died in 1853.<br> The Flying Dutchman was the name of a famous Yorkshire racehorse owned by<br> Archibald William Montomerie, the 13th Earl of Eglinton. The horse won title after<br> title in the late 1840's and 1850, until finally beaten by Voltigeur in<br> York in 1851.<br> Hill apparently liked horse racing and/or horses, for several of his<br> tunes are named for racehorses ("Beeswing", "XYZ", "The Underhand Hornpipe" also known<br> as "The Redesdale Hornpipe").<br> The Flying Dutchman sired one of Beeswing's foals.<br> It was printed in Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Book 2 (1881-1885) and<br> Northumbrian Pipers' Society's The Fiddle Music of James Hill (2005).<br>
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