Prince Albert's Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Prince Albert's Hornpipe" is a Scottish, Canadian and American Hornpipe in C Major (Cole) or<br> D Major (Messer). The parts are played AABB.<br> The tune was first printed in Boston publisher Elias Howe's Musician's Companion,<br> Part 3 (1844) where it is attributed to one E.L. White. Edward Little White (1809-1851)<br> was a journeyman musician-composer in the mid-1800's in the greater Boston region, a<br> teacher of the piano forte and organ. He was a prolific author of numerous instrumental<br> and sacred and secular vocal publications, including Organ without a Master,<br> Cecillian Glee Book (1858), the Boston Melodeon (1846), Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's<br> Fried (1846, Elias Howe Co.), Young America's Collection, and so on.<br> The title honors Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819-1861), who married his<br> cousin, Queen Victoria, in 1839.<br> It was printed in Howe's The Musician’s Companion, Part 3 (1844),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 3 (c. 1880’s),<br> Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Messer's Way Down East (1948) and<br> Messer's Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes (1980).<br>
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