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