Portsmouth
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Portsmouth", also known as "Portsmouth Hornpipe" is an English hornpipe or country dance<br> in cut time and E Flat Major (Chappell) or G Major (Barnes, Raven, Sharp).<br> The parts are played AB (Chappell), AAB (Sharp) or AABB (Barnes, Raven).<br> The air, probably a ballad tune according to Chappell, appears with country dance directions<br> in Henry Playford's Dancing Master (11th edition of 1701 and all later editions).<br> Ralph Vaughan Williams used the melody in the "Sea Songs" movement of his English<br> Folk Song Suite (1923) along with "Admiral Benbow" and "The Bold Princess Royal".<br> According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in the year 501 a Saxon named Port landed at the<br> area of Hampshire later known as Portsmouth with his two sons and killed a young British<br> nobleman. The first docks were established in Portsmouth in 1194 by Richard I. The French<br> burned them in 1369, but it was Henry VII who developed a dockyard there in 1496.<br> It was printed in Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes (1986),<br> Barlow's The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1986),<br> Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 2 (1859),<br> John Walsh's Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (1740),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and<br> Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909).<br> It was recorded by Hesperus on Early American Roots (1997).<br>
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