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Description: | Hampton's Hornpipe can be found in Ryan's Mammoth Collection of fiddle Tunes (Boston 1883) under the title Wade Hampton's Hornpipe. Wade Hampton was born in Charleston on March 28, 1818. He was a member of one of the richest families in the antebellum South. He owned and operated many plantations in Mississippi and South Carolina. It is probable that the melody was composed by Frank Livingstone who also composed the Cincinnati (Lancashire) Clog and the City Of Savannah Hornpipe which can be found in Kerrs Merry Melodies and Ryan's Mammoth Collection.This tune is taken from T. Craig's Empire Collection of Hornpipes. This small collection is one of a number of books published by Thomas Craig of Aberdeen in the late nineteenth century. This eight page publication contains 36 melodies arranged in keys starting with A and working through to Eb. This mode for arranging collections of melodies is reflected in Kerr's Merry Melodies and we have seen it used in some of the hand written texts in the North of England. One such volume, written by T. Newlands (1831-33) contains a number of tune sets arranged for dancing grouped by key. This seems very much at odds with the current practice of arranging tune sets around dramatic changes of key.Although it only contains 36 melodies, this slim volume is of great interest. Many of the tunes are by known composers. Some are certainly American or Scottish, but at least one composition has obvious Tyneside Links. The tune 'Hill's Hornpipe' is definitely in the style of James Hill of Gateshead, it would be fair to assume then that this is one of Hill's compositions. The fact that this Scottish publication contains compositions by American and Italian musicians alongside melodies from Tyneside gives us a very clear picture of the important place held by Tyneside composers such as James Hill and it is no little surprise that these compositions remain popular to this day. ; 19th century hornpipe collection | Publisher: | Thomas Craig George Street ; Aberdeen | Rights holder: | rights holder : | Temporal: | start=1861;end=1900; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:X0001033 | Go to resource |
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