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