|
| Name |
Ryan |
Coles |
Notes |
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| Aldridge's |
120 |
86 |
DM: Irish-born Robert Aldridge was a famed hornpipe
dancer of the late 18th century who performed on stage in
Dublin, London and Edinburgh. See article by Andrew Kuntz in
Fiddler magazine. |
| American Rifle Team |
137 |
102 |
DM: The victories of the American rifle team against
an Irish team in 1874 and '75, and over competition from
Ireland, Scotland, Australia and Canada in 1876 inspired the
composition of several songs and instrumental pieces. |
| Ariel |
124 |
90 |
DM: AKA Ball and Pin (Ryan p133) |
| Babbit's |
151 |
113 |
NG: Smith's Hornpipe.
HH: Also in Ryan/Cole as Myopia. |
| Balkan |
|
91 |
HH: Jerry Hayes (a reel) |
| Ball and Pin |
133 |
98 |
DM: AKA Ariel (Ryan p133). |
| Bees' Wings |
126 |
91 |
DM: Composition of Tyneside fiddler James Hill, named
for a champion thoroughbred. |
| Belle of Claremont |
142 |
106 |
DM: O'Neill's Belles of Clonallan. |
| Best Shot |
147 |
109 |
DM: A G-major setting of Fly-by-Night
(Ryan p160). |
| Buckley's |
136 |
100 |
DM: Fred Buckley, to whom this tune is attributed in
Ryan's, was a fiddler in Buckley's minstrels, sometimes called
"Master Ole Bull" (after the Norwegian violin
virtuoso). He was born in England 1833, died in Boston 1864.
Buckley's Minstrels (or "Congo Melodists"), who
began playing in 1843, pioneered blackface minstrelsy in
Boston. |
| Buena Vista |
148 |
111 |
DM: Probably so named to commemorate the battle of
Buena Vista in the Mexican War. |
| Byrne's Favorite |
145 |
108 |
DM: O'Neill's Alexander's. |
| Cincinnati |
121 |
87 |
DM: AKA Harvest Home or Cork Hornpipe. |
| City of Savannah |
142 |
106 |
DM: The "City of Savannah" was the first
steamship to cross the Atlantic.
|
| College |
120 |
86 |
DM: O'Neill's Jack's the Lad, from the song of
that name. First published, according to Lisa Ornstein, in
Thompson's Complete Collection of 120 Favourite Hornpipes as
Perform'd at the Public Assemblies (London, c1775), where it
appears as The Colledge (vol 1, #18). |
| Cuckoo |
143 |
106 |
DM: Similar to O'Neill's Cuckoo's Nest (first
setting). |
| Czar of Russia's Favorite |
151 |
114 |
DM: Ryan's has this in F. It is is D in Kerr's I as
West's Hornpipe, perhaps after a dancing partner of
Johnnie Queen (see notes for Johnnie
Queen's, Ryan p159). |
| Democratic |
125 |
91 |
NG: Galway Bay Hornpipe
DM: O'Neill's Galway Bay. |
| Democratic Rage |
136 |
100 |
DM: O'Neill's One of the Boys. |
| Dick Sand's |
136 |
100 |
DM: George R. "Dick" Sands was a famed
minstrel clogger born in England in the 1840s. He died in New
York City in 1900. |
| Douglas' Favorite |
137 |
102 |
DM: O'Neill's Mountains of Kerry. |
| Dundee |
146 |
110 |
DM: O'Neill's Kildare Fancy. |
| Durang's |
128 |
94 |
DM: Named for a famed early 19th-century American
stage dancer John Durang. |
| Duxbury |
146 |
110 |
NG: Dundee Hornpipe etc |
| Elks' Festival |
138 |
102 |
DM: These two parts are frequently found as the last
parts of The Derry Hornpipe. |
| Ferry Bridge |
130 |
95 |
DM: The version now most often heard was recorded by the
melodeon-playing Wyper Brothers of Scotland in the early 20th
century and is now called simply Wypers. |
| Florida Crackers |
148 |
111 |
DM: "Cracker" (short for "whip
cracker") is now mostly heard as an anti-white
pejorative, but it once had a more benign connotation as a
nickname for Florida or Georgia natives (see Georgia
Crackers, Ryan p140). |
| Fred Wilson's |
135 |
100 |
DM: Wilson was a Boston clog dancer and blackface minstrel born
1827. The tune is an F-major version of O'Neill's
Higgins' (for Conn Higgins). AKA The Cliff
(Kerr's I) or Ruby and closely related to The
Harvest Home (see Cincinnati, (Ryan p121). |
| Georgia Crackers |
140 |
104 |
DM: "Cracker" (short for "whip
cracker") is now mostly heard as an anti-white
pejorative, but it once had a more benign connotation as a
nickname for Florida or Georgia natives (see Florida
Crackers, Ryan p148). |
| Great Western |
155 |
117 |
NG: Millicent's Fav; The Belfast HP.
HH: Aka The Sweep's. |
| Highland |
123 |
90 |
NG: High Level Hornpipe by James Hill
DM: AKA Velocipede (p147). The tune is actually
The High Level, attributed to Northumbrian fiddler
James Hill. |
| Hull's Victory |
140 |
103 |
DM: Isaac Hull commanded the Constitution in the
famous 1812 sea victory over the H.M.S. Guerriere. |
| Irish |
139 |
103 |
DM: O'Neill's O'Connor's Favorite. |
| Jim Clark's |
126 |
91 |
DM: O'Neill's Clark's |
| Jock Tamson's |
144 |
108 |
DM: After a character in Scottish dialect songs.
"We're all Jock Tamson's weans" - Robert Burns. |
| Juniata |
139 |
103 |
DM: AKA Pushee's (Ryan p122) and O'Neill's
Handy Man. Juniata County is in Pennsylvania. |
| London |
122 |
88 |
NG: This is The Navvie or The Navvie
On the Line by James Hill. |
| Mazeppa |
141 |
105 |
A Byron poem and a Tchaikovsky opera are based on the tale of
Mazeppa, a handsome young Cossack nobleman who was
double-crossed by the elderly fiancé of his beloved, tied to
a wild horse and driven into the steppes (he survives to
fight in the Napoleonic wars). Andrew Ducrow's adaptation,
which debuted in England in 1831, was wildly popular in the
U.S. in the 1860s because the scantily clad actress Adah
Isaacs Menken played Mazeppa, a switch on the usual
19th-century theater practice of young men playing
"wench" roles. The popularity of touring
"Mazeppa" companies probably inspired the naming of
Mazeppa, Minnesota and Mazeppa, Alberta. |
| Miss Barker's |
134 |
99 |
NG: The Rocket (Jerry Holland's coll) |
| Miss Johnson's |
|
104 |
HH: Whiskey You're the Devil (OMI). Also in
Ryan/Cole as Silver Cluster reel.
DM: O'Neill's Off to California, not his reel
by this name.
|
| Morning Fair |
121 |
87 |
DM: AKA Texarkana (Ryan p132). O'Neill's
Tomorrow Morning. |
| Morpeth's |
145 |
108 |
NG: AKA The Morpeth Rant |
| Mountain Ranger |
138 |
102 |
DM: AKA Rose-Bud reel (p33). O'Neill's
Mountain Top. Related to Dundee/Duxbury/Kildare
Fancy family of tunes. |
| Myopia |
145 |
108 |
NG: Smith's HP
HH: Also in Ryan/Cole as Myopia. |
| Ned Kendall's |
121 |
87 |
DM: Keyed bugle virtuoso (1808-1861) who performed in
a famed head-to-head competition with cornetist P.S. Gilmore.
See Fiddler magazine article by Andrew Kuntz. |
| New Brig of Glasgow |
165 |
125 |
NG: Miss Gibson's (K3) |
| New Century |
123 |
90 |
DM: Not the tune in O'Neill's by this name. |
| Norfolk |
118 |
86 |
DM: AKA Shaw's Reel (Ryan p78). O'Neill's
Men of Ulster. See also Whiddon's (Ryan p119).
|
| Norton's Favourite |
|
106 |
HH: Remembrance of Dublin (OMI). Also in
Ryan/Cole as The Spring Garden.
DM: AKA Remembrance of Dublin (Ryan p156).
Jimmy "the Boss Jig Player" Norton was a Boston
fiddler who grew up in the Norton "juvenile
minstrels" troupe. |
| Obelisk |
151 |
114 |
DM: O'Neill's Bashful Bachelor. |
| Olive-Branch |
152 |
114 |
DM: O'Neill's Reconciliation. |
| Oriental |
128 |
94 |
DM: O'Neill's Boys from the East. |
| Parasott |
146 |
110 |
DM: C version of a tune known as Madame
Parisott's, which may be a corruption of Parazotti, to
whom The Banks has been attributed. |
| Prince Regent's |
153 |
115 |
DM: After George IV of England, who ruled as regent
from 1811-1820 due to the insanity of his father George III. |
| Princess |
131 |
95 |
DM: AKA Tammany Ring clog
(Ryan p157). The Wonder (probably composed by James
Hill) in Kerr's I. O'Neill's Coey's and (in G)
Southern Shore. |
| Pushee's |
122 |
88 |
DM: AKA Juniata (Ryan p139). Abram Pushee
(1791-1868) was a fiddler, dancing master and bandleader who
lived most of his life in Lebanon, NH. |
| Queen of the West |
138 |
101 |
DM: Recorded by influential Armagh fiddler Brendan
McGlinchey as The Tosspot. |
| Quindaro |
139 |
104 |
DM: Named for a Kansas town founded by abolitionists
in 1856 and subsequently abandoned. |
| Rickett's |
124 |
111 |
DM: Named for circus performer John Bill Ricketts, a
late 18th-century Scots immigrant to Philadelphia whose big
trick was to dance a hornpipe on the back of a galloping
horse. The tune itself was originally called Aldridge's
after Irish-born dancer Robert Aldridge. See note for
Aldridge's (Ryan p170) and articles on Aldridge and
Ricketts by Andrew Kuntz in Fiddler magazine. In Kerr's I and
Allan's Irish Fiddler as The Manchester Hornpipe.
O'Neill has it as Sailor's Hornpipe (second setting). |
| Salem |
120 |
86 |
DM: O'Neill's Gilmore's. Attributed by Ryan's to
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (born Dublin 1829, died St Louis,
Missouri 1892). Gilmore served with British army in Canada
then moved to Salem, Mass., where he became known as a
minstrel performer and cornet virtuoso. He was later a
celebrated brass band leader in New York City. |
| Sally Growler |
151 |
114 |
DM: A "Sally Growler" is a sea raven (AKA
puff belly, sea robin, mother-in-law fish), but the names of
both this extremely ugly cold water fish and the tune
probably derive from another now-obscure source. |
| Sans Souci |
134 |
95 |
DM: The first of several hornpipes in Ryan's attributed
to G.L. Tracy. George Lowell Tracy (1855-1921) was a composer
of light opera according to musicologist Charles Wolfe.
Sans Souci ("carefree" in French) was
the name of the Prussian emperor Frederick II's mid-18th
century palace in Potsdam. |
| Saratoga |
137 |
102 |
DM: Named for the upstate New York resort best known
for its summer horse racing. A G-major version was adapted to
the button accordion by Joe Burke, who recorded it as The
Smell of the Bog. |
| Sebastopol |
120 |
86 |
DM: The Russian port became famous during an 1854
Crimean War siege. |
| Shunster's |
136 |
100 |
NG: Sunshine Hornpipe (DMI)
DM: AKA St Elmo (Ryan p132). |
| Silver Star |
136 |
100 |
DM: O'Neill's Twilight Star. |
| Souvenir de Venice |
147 |
109 |
DM: Attributed by Ryan's to Louis Ostinelli (see
Ostinelli's, Ryan p67), this is a variation on
The Banks, a hornpipe credited to the now obscure
Scottish violinist Parizotti. |
| St Elmo |
132 |
98 |
NG: Sunshine Hornpipe (DMI)
DM: Shunster's (Ryan p136). O'Neill's
Sunshine. St Elmo is the patron saint of sailors, but
the tune may be named for St Elmo, Colorado, a mining boom
town that sprang up in 1879, or Augusta Evans Wilson's wildly
popular 1867 novel St Elmo, for which the town was named. |
| Steamboat |
148 |
110 |
DM: O'Neill's Tim, the Turncoat, the first part
of which is pretty much the same as his Goodnatured Man.
NG: I believe this is one of James Hill's compositions. |
| Texarkana |
132 |
98 |
DM: AKA Morning Fair (Ryan p121). O'Neill's
Tomorrow Morning. |
| Velocipede |
147 |
110 |
DM: "Velocipede" is an old name for a
bicycle. This is The High Level. See notes for
Highland (Ryan p123). |
| Vendome |
148 |
112 |
NG: AKA The Independent
DM: Named for a French town, or perhaps the Place
Vendôme in Paris, site of a column honoring Napoleon
demolished during the Paris Commune in 1871 and rebuilt in
1874. The tune is The Independent in the Darley and
McCall collection published in Dublin in the early 20th
century. |
| Vinton's |
124 |
90 |
DM: O'Neill's O'Fenlon's. |
| Wade Hampton's |
138 |
101 |
DM: Named for the South Carolina Confederate general
and later U.S. senator. Attributed to Frank Livingston, whose
name is attached to a number of tunes in Ryan's with
Southern-themed titles. The tune was recorded in the 1950s by
button accordion great Paddy O'Brien. |
| Whiddon's |
119 |
85 |
DM: Probably from W.H. Whiddon, credited by Ryan's
on The Norfolk Hornpipe (p118), the first part of which
resembles the second part of Whiddon's. This part is a
floater that also turns up in O'Neill's Wily Old
Bachelor (as pointed out by Lisa Ornstein.) |
