Hornpipes & Schottishes
Alexander’s Hornpipe
Also known as Prunoble’s Hornpipes.
Boys of school hill
An obvious variant of “Boys of Blue Hill”, which itself has a rather mysterious history, possible North American origins and many different names.
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Boys_of_Bluehill_(The)
Basically if you play Boys of Blue Hill as a dotted hornpipe and kind of “swing” it then you can hear the start of the evolution into Boys of School Hill. It becomes one of the styles of hornpipe that only English players seem to play, and different enough to warrant its own name.
ABC
X1
T: Boys Of School Hill
R: hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|: d>B| A2 f2 e2 d2 |(3BBB B>A B>cd>e | f>ag>f e>gf>e | d>fe>d f>ed>B |
A2 f2 e2 d2 | (3BBB B>A B>cd>e | f>ag>f e>gf>e | d2 d2 d2 :|
|: f>g | a>fd>f a2 g>f | e>fg>a b2 a>g | f>ag>f e>gf>e | d>fe>d f>ed>B |
A2 f2 e2 d2 | (3BBB B>A B>cd>e | f>ag>f e>gf>e | d2 d2 d2 :|Canal en Octobre
A schottische composed by Fredric Paris.
Click go the shears
Cliff Hornpipe, The
Fanny Frail
Used as morris (border) dance tune. It has a slightly bawdy song that goes with it.
The origins of the tune may come with a longer version of the song as is sometimes the case with morris dance tunes.
NB:- If you play Grandfather’s Polka, followed by Fanny Frail and the Cliff Hornpipe, then think about their relationship with Harvest home … you’ll start to get some idea of how the folk process changes and adapts tunes, and spreads them around Britain and Ireland in different related forms.
Look up the Cincinnati Hornpipe for a north American link.
Garland dance, The
Grandfather’s Polka
This tune is a polka version of the Cliff Hornpipe.
NB:- If you play Grandfather’s Polka, followed by Fanny Frail and the Cliff Hornpipe, then think about their relationship with Harvest home … you’ll start to get some idea of how the folk process changes and adapts tunes, and spreads them around Britain and Ireland in different related forms.
Look up the Cincinnati Hornpipe for a north American link.
Harliquin Air, The
Hunting the hare
Jackie Robinson
La Schottishe
A schottishe,that’s about all I know about it. I picked this up from dancing to Flowers and Frolics, or John Kirkpatrick, it’s all a bit vague.
This is a tune that doesn’t seem to be mentioned much (maybe not at all) online, though it obviously has some sort of link to the Linehope Lope / Glenbeigh Barndance family of tunes.
Lemmie Brazil’s No. 1
Lemmie Brazil’s No. 2
Madame Bonaparte
Malt Shovel Hornpipe, The
Off to California
Orlando’s return
Portobello hornpipe
Learnt from a piano accordion player at the CovTrad session.
Youtube
Redesdale Hornpipe
Written by James Hill Attributed to James Hill. Redesdale is a valley in Northumberland and an important (going back into antiquity) historical route between England and Scotland. It’s been speculated that this could have been the route by which James Hill travelled from Scotland to live in Northumberland.
Youtube
These players play the tune differently to me, but much of what they do often appears as “variations” in my playing.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKIuxM47duI
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODl8ZabWwPY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6pW43xJ78E