Lord St. Vincent's hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Lord St. Vincent's hornpipe", also known as "St. Vincent's Hornpipe", "Vincent's" and<br> "Vinton’s Hornpipe" is an English hornpipe. A very popular hornpipe found in many<br> printed and manuscript collections under a variety of titles, including "Vinton’s<br> Hornpipe", "St. Vincent's Hornpipe", "The Silver Box" and "O'Fenlon's Hornpipe".<br> <br> Professor Samuel Bayard thinks the "The Silver Box" hornpipe,<br> dated c. 1770 (in Alfred Moffat and Frank Kidson's Dances of the Olden Time, 1912),<br> is a simple, perhaps early, version of the tune. As "Lord St. Vincent's,"<br> "St. Vincent's Hornpipe" or "Vincent's Hornpipe" the tune appears in several 19th<br> century publications and manuscripts. It was printed under this title in Thompson's<br> Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1799 and also appears as<br> "Lord St. Vincent" in the mid-19th century music manuscript papers of Long Island<br> painter and musician William Sidney Mount. Shropshire musician John Moore included<br> it in his 1837-1840 music manuscript as "St. Vincent's Hornpipe", dropping the 'Lord'<br> from the title. John Burks' music manuscript, dated 1821, has a similar version (as<br> "Vincent's Hornpipe") to Moore's, including being set in the key of B Flat.<br> <br> All of these titles honor Admiral John Jervis (1735-1823), Lord St. Vincent, a<br> contemporary of the celebrated Lord Horatio Nelson's and himself a hero of the<br> Napoleonic Wars and the victor of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. The title<br> "Vinton's", by which the tune appears in the Boston, Massachusetts, publisher<br> Elias Howe's various volumes (from the mid-19th century on) is a probably a corruption<br> of the original title honoring Jarvis. The piece is in the repertoire of Missouri<br> fiddler Kelly Jones (b. 1947) who learned the melody from Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes.<br> <br> It was printed in both Cole's 1000 and its predecessor, Ryan's Mammoth Collection<br> (1883), both Howe publications that included directions for a contra-dance to the tune.<br> The tune seems common to many of Howe's publications and first appears in the 1844<br> edition of his Musician's Companion {containing 18 sets of cotillions arranged with<br> figures and a large number of popular marches, quick-steps, waltzes, hornpipes,<br> contra dances, songs, &c.&c.}. O'Neill prints the tune as "O'Fenlon's Hornpipe." <br>
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