Staten Island Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Staten Island Hornpipe" is also known as "Staten Island Ferry", “The Arranmore Ferry”,<br> "Burns' Hornpipe"; an earlier title is "The Earl of Staten".<br> It is in D Major. The parts are played AABB (most versions) or AA’BB’.<br> "Staten Island Hornpipe" was first printed in James Aird’s<br> Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs (1782),<br> printed in Glasgow, identical to version played today.<br> It appears in a few musician’s manuscripts from North England in the 19th century,<br> though none predate Aird. A version appears in the 1823-26 music manuscript book of<br> Lincolnshire musician Joshua Gibbons under the title “Scotch Hornpipe.”<br> It was reintroduced in traditional circles during the 1960’s “folk revival” in the<br> United Kingdom (and America), largely through the playing of English fiddler Dave Swarbrick.<br> Any associations to the Staten Island ferry (e.g. the ‘c’ natural notes in the ‘B’ part being<br> likened to the 'toots' of a steam whistle) are spurious.<br> It was also printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle,<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes and others.<br> This is one of those tunes like "The De’il Amang the Tailors"<br> which gets played as a reel in Scotland and England, and a hornpipe in Ireland.<br> It was printed in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. II (1785),<br> Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005),<br> Honeyman's Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor (1898),<br> Elias Howe's Second Part of the Musician’s Companion (1843),<br> Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988),<br> Jarman's Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes,<br> Johnson's The Kitchen Musician No. 4: Collection of Fine Tunes (1983) (revised 1991, 2001),<br> Johnson's A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter 18th Century (1998),<br> Kennedy's Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 1 (1951),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1880),<br> Miller & Perron's New England Fiddler's Repertory (1983),<br> Milne's Middleton’s Selection of Strathspeys, Reels &c. for the Violin (1870),<br> Phillips' American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> Ryan’s Mammoth Collection(1883),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980),<br> Sumner's Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript (1997) (appears as “Scotch<br> Hornpipe”,<br> Sweet's Fifer’s Delight (1965/1981) and Tolman's Nelson Music Collection (1969).<br> It was recorded by F&W String Band on F&W String Band,<br> Fennigs All Stars on Saturday Night in the Provinces,<br> John McCutcheon on The Wind That Shakes the Barley (1977),<br> Hank Sapoznik on Melodic Clawhammer Banjo and<br> The Wind in the Rigging on A New England Voyage (1988).<br>
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