Saratoga Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Saratoga Hornpipe", also known as "Queer's Hornpipe"<br> is an American hornpipe from southwestern Pa. in G Major (Bayard)<br> or A Major (Bayard). The parts are played AB.<br> It was collected from Harry Queer near Ligonier in Westmoreland County<br> in Pennsylvania in 1957. He claimed that this was his own composition,<br> although it is a combination of other versions of "Saratoga Hornpipe"<br> (Bayard list three versions in Dance to the Fiddle.<br> The first strain of the tune appears also in "Kitty O'Neill",<br> "Old Time Straight Jig", "Away Back" (Frank Harding) and<br> "Snapping Jig" (Septimus Winner, 1883), "Duncan's Reel",<br> "Little Billy Wilson" (or "Billy Wilson" an alternate title<br> for "Ace of Spades") and an untitled breakdown in Christeson (1973).<br> Bayard states that folklorist Phillips Barry once said to him<br> "If a folk-singer added a doggerel couplet to Paradise Lost, he would<br> claim the whole poem as his composition."<br> Bayard cites over a dozen publications of cognate sets, including his own<br> Hill Country Tunes where #53 (titles simply "Quadrille") has a B part<br> that mirrors the A part given here.<br> This version was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle, March to the<br> Fife (1981).<br>
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