Middletown Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Middletown Hornpipe" is an American hornpipe in F Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> The melody appears among the music manuscripts of 19th century Setauket, Long Island,<br> fiddler and painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868). It is the same "Middletown<br> Hornpipe" that was printed in Original Dances, Waltzes & Hornpipes for the Violin,<br> by Michael Higgens, published in 1829.<br> There are Middletowns in Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut. There is no evidence<br> as to which, if any of them, Higgens had in mind when he composed this tune.<br> The tune was printed in Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995).<br> It was recorded by Gilbert Ross on The Cradle of Harmony: William Sidney Mount's<br> Violin and Fiddle Music (1976) and Kim & Jim Lansford on New Harmony.<br>
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