Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on September 3rd 2006 by Trevor Jennings.
This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.
Also known as Henry Cave's No. 2.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Henry Cave's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
GABc d2gf|g2ec BdBG|FGAB c2ed|cBAG FA(3DEF|
GABc d2gf|g2ec BdBG|FGAB cecA|1 G2F2 G2 (3DEF:|2 G2F2 GABc||
|:d2ed d2ed|d2ga bgdB|c2dc c2dc|c2ag fedc|
d2ed d2ed|d2ga bgaf|gdec dBcA|1 GBAF GABc:|2 GBAF G2(3DEF||
Henry Cave's
One of several tunes that our tune tutor brought back from a fiddle workshop at the Sidmouth Festival 2006, and is now teaching to us.
It is an English hornpipe (not like an Irish hornpipe), and comes from Somerset in the West Country.
# Posted on September 3rd 2006 by Trevor Jennings
Trevor, how are English hornpipes different from Irish?
# Posted on September 5th 2006 by Bob himself
Henry Cave's
Bob, I hadn't really thought about the difference between English and Irish hornpipes so I asked a couple of players at the English session I go to on Tuesdays. I was told that English hornpipes aren't played quite as dotted as the Irish ones, and that English hornpipes preceded the Irish, historically speaking.
There may very well be more to it than that, so if any members can give a more detailed explanation I'm sure we'd be very grateful.
# Posted on September 6th 2006 by Trevor Jennings
Henry Cave's
This particular hornpipe is also known as Henry Cave's No. 2. Apparently, he composed more than one.
# Posted on September 6th 2006 by Trevor Jennings
Henry Cave's Hornpipe
Bob, have look at discussion #11128 (if you haven't already), on the difference between hornpipes and reels. Relevant points I uncovered are,
1. An English hornpipe isn't swung as much as an Irish hornpipe.
2. An English hornpipe would be played in more of a "classical" style than an Irish hornpipe.
3. It's not so much of a structural difference as the way in which they're played, something like the difference between the way the Scots and the Irish play reels etc.
Hope this helps.
# Posted on September 10th 2006 by Trevor Jennings
Henry Cave's
A little more information about Henry Cave: he was a Somerset fiddler, and knife grinder by trade.
# Posted on June 15th 2008 by Trevor Jennings