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TRADITIONAL TUNES OF UNCERTAIN DATE.
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Humours, never before published : containing Hornpipes, Jiggs, North Country-
Frisks, Morrises, Bagpipe-Hornpipes, and Rounds, with severall additional
Fancies added ; fit for all that play [in] publick." Although this collection was
entered at Stationers' Hall in 1713 (21st May), the hornpipe was composed by
Hale, the Derbyshire piper, in the reign of Charles II. If there were not the
copy of the music printed under Hale's portrait to refer to, the division, or
variation, would clearly prove it to be in triple time. In modern notation,
instead of § time, it should be thus : —
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I make these remarks because the manner of dancing the hornpipe has
certainly been changed. The stage hornpipes of the latter half of the last century,
and the steps taught by dancing-masters within the last forty years to tunes in
common time, cannot have agreed with the ancient country way of dancing.
The College Hornpipe, in spite of its extended compass, is the tune to which an
old sailor's song, called Jack's the lad, is sung. A copy of the words, printed in
Seven Dials, was once in my possession.
Ckeerfully. .p. .p. jSJP:
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