Silver Star Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Silver Star Hornpipe", also known as "The Star Hornpipe" or "The Twilight Star" is an<br> American, Scottish or Irish reel or hornpipe in G Major and either 2/4 or 4/4 time.<br> The parts are played AABB (Cole and O'Neill) or AB (Bayard).<br> Bayard observed that the second strain is international and "resounds endlessly through<br> our present day instrumental folk music".<br> It was collected by Samuel Bayard from Irvin Yaugher in Mount Independence, Fayette County,<br> Pa. in 1944. He had learned it from John O. Miller, a fiddler from Michigan who had lived<br> in Dunbar, also in Fayette County.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Christeson's Old Time Fiddlers Repertory vol. 2 (1984),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 (c. 1880’s),<br> Lerwick's Kilted Fiddler (1985),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883) and<br> Sweet's Fifer’s Delight (1965).<br> It was recorded by Joseph Cormier on Informal Sessions (1998).<br>
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