The Hawk

hornpipe

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.

This tune has been added to 36 tunebooks.

Also known as Hawk.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Archives #2 by Jean Carignan
• Beginish by Beginish
• Fiddle On The Fiddle by Sean Maguire
• Fiddler's Fancy: The Music Of James Hill by Tom McConville
• Five by Old Blind Dogs
• Flittin by Dave Swarbrick
• From The Archives by Sean McGuire And Josephine Keegan
• In The Tradition by Boys Of The Lough
• Jig It In Style by Sean Keane
• Light And Shade by Skylark
• Live And Kicking by Swarb's Lazarus
• Man Of Achievement by Sean Maguire
• Return To Inis Mor by Joe Derrane
• Scottish Violin Music -Volume 1 by Hector MacAndrew
• The Floating Bowhand by Jim McKillop
• The Man Behind The Box by Joe Derrane
• The Northumbrian Small Pipes by Various Artists
• The Wansbeck Piper by Pauline Cato
• Trip Over The Mountain by Watkin Lees

X: 1
T: Hawk, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
(3ABc|:d2 fd Adfe|dfeg fagf|e2 ge Begf|edcB ABcA|
d2 fd Adfe|dfeg fagf|edef gABc|1dAfe d2 (3ABc:|2dAfe d2 cB||
Aafd Agec|Agec dcBA|BAcB dced|fegf e2 ef|
gafg efde|caBg AfGe|cdef gABc|1dAfe d2 cB:|2dAfe d2 (3ABc||

The Hawk

Thanks for posting this Jocklet. One of James Hill's most famous hornpipes. Different versions have that 2nd bar of the B-part as |Ag/f/ec dcBA| or |Afdc dcBA| - I don't know which one I prefer. Anyway, it was originally written in E major:

K:Emaj
(3Bcd|e2ge Begf|egfa gbag|f2af cfag|fedc BcdB|
e2ge Begf|egfa gbag|fefg aBcd|eBgf e2:|
|:(3BBB|Bbge Bafd|Ba/g/fd edcB|cBdc edfe|gfag f2fg|
abga fgef|dbca BgAf|defg aBcd|eBgf e2:|

# Posted on June 11th 2004 by Dow

The Shetland Fiddler

This tune sounds like "Out on the Ocean" (joking) Actually, it sounds very much like "The Shetland Fiddler" http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/97

# Posted on June 11th 2004 by Phantom Button

The Shetland Fiddler is probably a corruption of the original hornpipe

# Posted on June 11th 2004 by Dow

Beginish recorded it as a reel. It seems they took it from John Doherty.

# Posted on June 11th 2004 by slainte

If you're like me and you don't like that ascending bit in the B-part, you do something like this:

|:B2|Bbge Bafd|Bged edcB|cBdB eBfB|gBag f2fg|
abga fgef|dbca BgAe|defg aBcd|eBgf e2:|

This is based on Joe Hutton's setting, who had it slightly differently on the pipes:

|:B2|Bbge Bafd|Bged edcB|cBeB fBgB|aBag f2fg|
abga fgef|decd BcAe|defg aBcd|eBgf e2:|

# Posted on August 7th 2004 by Dow

...Except that he had it in D, and his pipes were tuned about a tone below concert so the whole thing came out in C.

# Posted on August 7th 2004 by Dow

Yamadasan, although this tune is more like a hornpipe the way the melody leaps about, it more often than not gets played fast and straight like a reel, since there are no strings of triplets. I think it works played both ways.

# Posted on August 15th 2004 by Dow

The Hawk

This is indeed the original of "The Shetland Fiddler", which is a pipe version first published in 1954 by Donald Shaw Ramsay.

# Posted on December 17th 2005 by nigelg

It begins a set entitled "The Bells Of St. Louis" on De Danann's album "A Song For Ireland".

# Posted on November 26th 2006 by nicholas