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"Staten Island Hornpipe" is also known as "Staten Island Ferry", "The Arranmore Ferry",
"Burns' Hornpipe"; an earlier title is "The Earl of Staten".
It is in D Major. The parts are played AABB (most versions) or AA’BB’.
"Staten Island Hornpipe" was first printed in James Aird’s Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs (vol. II, 1782), printed in Glasgow, identical to the version played today. This is one of those tunes like "The Devil's Dream" ("The De’il Amang the Tailors") which gets played as a reel in Scotland and England and a hornpipe in Ireland. It was printed in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. II (1785), Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981), Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983), Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940), Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005), Honeyman's Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor (1898), Elias Howe's Second Part of the Musician’s Companion (1843), Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988), Jarman's Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes, Johnson's The Kitchen Musician No. 4: Collection of Fine Tunes (1983) (revised 1991, 2001), Johnson's A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter 18th Century (1998), Kennedy's Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 1 (1951), Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1880), Miller & Perron's New England Fiddler's Repertory (1983), Milne's Middleton’s Selection of Strathspeys, Reels &c. for the Violin (1870), Phillips' American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984), Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883), Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002), Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980), Sumner's Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript (1997) (appears as “Scotch Hornpipe”, Sweet's Fifer’s Delight (1965/1981) and Tolman's Nelson Music Collection (1969). It was recorded by F&W String Band on F&W String Band, Fennigs All Stars on Saturday Night in the Provinces, John McCutcheon on The Wind That Shakes the Barley (1977), Hank Sapoznik on Melodic Clawhammer Banjo and The Wind in the Rigging on A New England Voyage (1988). |