Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on September 6th 2001 by dfost.
This tune has been added to 81 tunebooks.
Also known as The Aldridge, Bottom Of The Punch Bowl ?, The Manchester , Pibddawns Aldridge, Pibddawns Wrecsam, Ricket's, Rickets, Rickett's, Ricketts, The Spanish, The Wrexham, Y Bibddawns Sbaenig, The Yarmouth.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Rickett's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
(3ABc|dcdA FAdf|edcB A2fg|afaf bagf|edcB A2fe|
dcdA FAdf|edcB A2fg|afdf (3gag ec|d2f2d2:|
fg|afaf dfaf|bgbg efge|afaf bagf| (3efe (3dcB A2fe|
dcdA FAdf|edcB A2fg|afdf (3gag ec|d2f2d2:|
Manchester hornpipe
in swansea, it's used to dance the gower reel, and phill tanner who dowdled the music for dancing, called the tune the liverpool hornpipe. the rest of wales calls in the wrexham hornpipe, (wrexham not being that far from liverpool)
variations were played in wales but under different names - the spanish hornpipe, seven, and the aldrige amongst others. the aldrige hornpipe is known in england but is a number of different tunes. also in england the tune is used by the bampton morris, in oxfordshire as a jig, called the fool's jig. aldrige is near birmingham but mr aldrige was a dancer who had several dance tunes including hornpipes and allemandes composed for him in the eighteenth century
as if that weren't confusing enough, there is another tune called the wrexham hornpipe in wales, which the people around that area in north east wales call the swansea hornpipe, which is near gower.
# Posted on May 7th 2004 by cerimatho
Leo Rowsome recorded this as the Manchester Hornpipe. It's a common tune in American fiddling.
# Posted on February 3rd 2005 by KLR
"Tro Llaw: A Collection of 200 Welsh Hornpipes"
Collected, edited and arranged by Robin Huw Bowen
National Library of Wales, 1987
ISBN: 0-907158-25-0
~ & those other names, as mentioned above, pages 47 & 48:
54.) "Pibddawns Wrecsam" / "The Wrexham Hornpipe"
~ & variants:
54a.) "Y Bibddawns Sbaenig" / "The Spanish Hornpipe"
54b.) "Saith" / "Seven"
54c.) "Pibddawns Aldridge" / The Aldridge Hornpipe"
# Posted on November 13th 2006 by ceolachan
"Rickett's Hornpipe" / "Sailor's Hornpipe" ~ a duplication from the future
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on March 15th 2007 by Falkbeer.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6947
With a few subtle differences ~
The Sailors Hornpipe #2 (~ ?)
R: hornpipe
K: D Major
|: (3ABc |
dcdA FAdf | edcB A2 fg | afaf bagf | edcB A2 fe |
dcdA FAdf | edcB A2 fg | afdg bgec | d2 d2 d2 :||
|: (3efg |
afaf d2 ga | bgbg e2 fg | afaf bagf | edcB A2 fe |
dcdA FAdf | edcB A2 fg | afdg bgec | d2 d2 d2 :|]
# Posted on March 15th 2007 by ceolachan
"Rickett's Hornpipe", and no, I don't have ricketts
Just having some fun with this, and I wouldn't necessarily do all this at once, as given, but here are some other ways with this old standard, first swung and then not. I did also, not notated, tend to throw in a 'snap' now and then ~
K: D Major
|: (3gfe |
d2 d>A F>A (3def | e>d (3dcB A2 f>g | a2 (3fga b>ag>f | (3efe (3dcB A>gf>e |
d>cd>A F2 d>f | e>dc>B A2 g2 | f>ad>g b>ge>c | d2 A2 D2 :|
|: (3efg |
a2 f>a d2 (3fga | b2 g>b e2 f>g | a>fd>g b2 (3agf | e2 (3dcB A2 (3gfe |
d>cd>A F>A (3def | e2 (3dcB A>gf>g | a2 d>g b2 e>c | d2 (3ABA D2 :|
K: D Major
|: fe |
d2 dA FAdf | edcB A2 fg | a2 fa bagf | e2 dB Agfe |
dcdA F2 df | edcB A2 g2 | fadg bgec | d2 A2 D2 :|
|: fg |
a2 fa d2 fa | b2 gb e2 fg | afdg b2 af | e2 dB A2 fe |
dcdA FAdf | e2 dB Agfg | a2 dg b2 ec | d2 A2 D2 :|
# Posted on March 15th 2007 by ceolachan
Colonial American Version of Rickett's in F
I found this version of Rickett's and Fisher's Hornpipes on YouTube and transcribed Rickett's for this posting.
See-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjc4mSyBveo
The above sample has is from an unidentified source of 17th colonial music with violin, flute and classical guitar. In keeping with the music of the times, it sounds more like Mozart and the barely resembles the version Rickett's found on The Session or Fiddler's Companion website.
If you imagine being dressed like George & Martha Washington (in a hoop skirt that covers a full square yard), who are attending a formal presidential ball, then the tune works well.
X:1
T:Rickett’s Hornpipe Colonial in F
C:Colonial America Version
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:F
%Colonial Version
f>c- cf/e/|dg/f/ ed/c/ | d>c-cB/A/|Gc/B/ AG/F/|
f>c- cf/e/|dg/f/ ed/c/ | dc-c=B | c2 z A|
B/c/ d/e/ f>f | g/a/ b/a/ g>f | gf fe | f2 z A |
B/c/ d/e/ f>f | g/a/ b/a/ g>f | gf fe | f3 z ||
# Posted on August 30th 2009 by troisrive
'it barely resembles the version'...
You couldn't be more right! It's not the same tune and a finer tune at that! Only the second part sounds like a hornpipe. So doees the second tune in the said set.
# Posted on April 28th 2010 by birlibirdie