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The Stoney Steps

hornpipe

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on June 2nd 2004 by jdave.

This tune has been added to 39 tunebooks.

Also known as Cincinnati (B&E), Jenkin's, Jenkins', The Stepping Stone, The Stony Steps, Washington, The Washington.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

A Sound Skin by Junior Davey And Friends
An Tobar Gl�é by Neil Mulligan
Dublin Made Me by Liam O'Connor And Seán McKeon
Give Us A Penny And Let Us Be Gone by Teada
Mo Chairdin by Paul Brock
Pure Banjo by Brian McGrath
Seanchairde by Dermy Diamond, Tara Diamond, Dáithí Sproule
Songs, Jigs, Reels by Glenside And Kilfenora Ceili Bands
The Irish Concertina Two by Noel Hill
Traditional Irish Fiddle Music by The Kilfenora Fiddle Ceili Band
Traditional Irish Music From County Clare by Eamon Cotter

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

X: 1
T: Stoney Steps, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
GABc dG~G2|eGfd gG~G2|EGDG EGDG|(3ABc BA GFED|
GABc dG~G2|eGfd gG~G2|EGDG cedc|1BAGF ~G3F:|2BAGF G2Bc||
dG~G2 dG~G2|efgf edeG|edeB cBAG|FcBA GFED|
GABc dG~G2|eGfd gG~G2|EGDG cedc|1BAGF G2Bc:|2BAGF ~G3F||

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The Stoney Steps

A hornpipe learned from Eamonn Cotter's wonderful pure drop recording "Traditonal Music from County Clare" This tune is different than the stoney steps reel that's the title for one of Matt Molloy's albums.

-Jonathan

# Posted on June 2nd 2004 by jdave

Lovely tune

Thanks for this one - a cracking wee tune with a lovely swing to it and a couple of great runs.

# Posted on June 5th 2004 by breandan

Stoney Steps

Sorry to upset you hibernophiles but this one is venerable and English. Its a classic English polka recorded from at least two if not more) 19th Century Southern English manuscript tunebooks. It makes a pleasant change to have Irish players pinch English tunes 'cos it usually works the other way round.

Noel Jackson
Angels of the North

# Posted on June 6th 2004 by noelbats

Washington Hornpipe

I don't hear the polka in this tune at all. It's definitely a hornpipe the way I play it anyway. Not sure about its origin but I understood it was a 19th century Scottish tune. There's another hornpipe called Stoney Steps that appears in English manuscripts. One of the 2 tunes gets mistaken for a James Hill tune but I'm not sure which one. The original key for this one was apparently Bb but I've seen it in A also. My setting goes like this:

A variation for bars 3 and 7 is 6th leaps |GeFd EcDB|.

# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Dow

Duplicated - but the B-part's in a different key

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5255

# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Dow

"The Stony Steps" / "The Stoney Steps" ~ 1884

"The Athole Collection" ~ 870 strathspeys, reels, jigs, hornpipes and country dances...
Compiled by James Stewart Robertson of Perthshire
http://www.heallan.com/athole.html

# Posted on December 12th 2006 by ceolachan

"The Washington Hornpipe" ~ specifics for the duplications linked to above

Key signature: A Major
Submitted on November 29th 2005 by Ptarmigan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5255

# Posted on December 12th 2006 by ceolachan

"Good For The Tongue" ~ hornpipe - close sibling

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on December 11th 2006 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6499

# Posted on December 12th 2006 by ceolachan

I have this from a friend's original copy of an 1851 fife tune collection. It's in Bb major and titled "Good for the Tongue."
The booklet is called "Howe's School for the Fife," published by Elias Howe, Jr., through Oliver Ditson and Co., of 277 Washington Street in Boston.

# Posted on January 13th 2007 by Miss Lonelyhearts

Elias Howe has a great publishing history and had considerabe linfluence on the 'traditional' scene, despite the perpetual claims of music notation illiteracy by some ~ his output included some great tune and dance collections...

# Posted on January 14th 2007 by ceolachan