Occidental Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Occidental Hornpipe" also known as "Holmes' Hornpipe" or "Pirate's Hornpipe" is an American<br> hornpipe in G Major. The parts are played AABB. Like the "Oriental Hornpipe", this tune may<br> possibly have been named for a New York City concert saloon. Brooks McNamara, in his book<br> The New York Concert Saloon: The Devil's Own Nights (2002), records:<br> In 1864, the Occidental may well have had both music and waiter girls, who spent at least<br> part of their time performing. The veteran William Allen had both a piano and violin at the<br> Occidental. "Taking a look around the internal arrangements," wrote the Clipper (a period<br> entertainment periodical), "we noticed a piano fixed plumb up against the windows facing the<br> street - rather a cold place in the winter time - with a very nice looking girl seated thereat;<br> and by her side sat a violinist. While the latter fiddled the former played upon the grand<br> pianner."<br> There have been many Occidental Theaters, however (if indeed the title refers to a venue.<br> Occidental theater is also a genre of performance with dialogue, as opposed to the Oriental<br> theater, which emphasizes movement). The tune was published twice in William Bradbury Ryan's<br> Mammoth Collection (1883), in the key of 'G' as "Occidental Hornpipe" and the key of 'Eb' as<br> "Holmes' Hornpipe." A few years later, across the Atlantic, it appeared in Laybourn's Köhler’s<br> Violin Repository Book 3 (Edinburgh, 1885) as "Pirate's Hornpipe," also in the key of Eb. <br> It was printed in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) and Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940).<br>
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