Niagara Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Niagara Hornpipe" is an American hornpipe in B flat major. The parts are played AABB.<br> Boston publisher Elias Howe printed contra dance instructions along with the tune in 1000<br> Jigs and Reels and dance directions only in his American Dancing Master and Ball-Room Prompter.<br> The printing in Ryan's Mammoth (1883) and its successor, Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> gave the tune wide dissemination and it was played by fiddlers from Missouri,<br> North Dakota, New York's Adirondacks to Nova Scotia.<br> The tune is a bit unusual being in Bb. It also has an interesting rhythm in the A part.<br> It was printed in<br> Howe's 1000 Jigs and Reels (1867),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> White's Unique Collection (1986) and<br> Phillips's Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995).<br> It was recorded by Tom Doucet (Nova Scotia) on The Down East Star (1975), Mark Hamilton<br> (Adirondacks) on Songs and Tunes from Wolf Run (1992). <br>
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