Delaware Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Delaware Hornpipe" is an American hornpipe in G Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> The name 'Delaware' derives from Thomas, Lord de la Warr, the first Governor of Virginia, a<br> courtier and soldier who as a young man had been knighted by Queen Elizabeth. At first the<br> bay was named for him, then a river emptying into it was discovered and also given the same<br> name, and finally the region was named for the river. <br> A very similar (nearly identical in most measures) hornpipe is to be found in the large mid-19th<br> century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon James Goodman<br> as an untitled "hornpipe".<br> "Delaware Hornpipe" was one of the tunes cited by Lettie Osborn (New York Folklore Quarterly)<br> as having commonly been played for dances in Orange County, New York, in the 1930's. <br> It was printed in<br> Oliver Ditson's The Boston Collection of Instrumental Music (c. 1850),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) and Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940).<br>
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