Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on October 22nd 2001 by Joerg Froese.
This tune has been added to 107 tunebooks.
Also known as Coey's, George Ross, George Ross' Hornpipes, The Southern Shore, The Thames, Wonder.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Wonder, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|:(3DEF | GdBG FcAF | (3GFG BG D2GF | EGAB cBAG |Fd (3d^cd ed=cA|
GdBG FcAF | (3GFG BG D2GF | Eedc BAGF|A2G2 G2 :|
|:AG | FAd^c dBAG | FAd^c dfed | ^cdef (3gfe ^ce | d^cde d2 =c2 |
BcBA ^GBe2 | ABA=G FAd2 | egfe (3ded (3cBA | GgdB G2 :||
The Wonder Hornpipe
First heard many years ago on a record by The Dubliners played by their fiddler John Sheehan.
I thought it was Irish until I found it in a book called "The Lads Like Beer" (Graham Dixon, Random Pub. ISBN 0-951 1572-05) dealing with the music of Newcastle fiddle player James Hill (around 1850) who is attributed with the composition of this one.
The G# doesn´t turn up in the printed version though I have never heard the tune without it.
The original seems to have been in Bb but that isn´t any easier than this version.
# Posted on October 22nd 2001 by Joerg Froese
James Hill
James Hill was the author of many favorite Hornpipes including Newcastle, The Banks, The Rights of Man and about a good ten other hornpipes that I esacpe me right now. He often wrote in Bb which make his hornpipes a little harder to play. I always thought of his hornpipes as showpiece tunes, nice as a solo but due to funky keys & huge ranges not so great for a session.
# Posted on October 24th 2001 by Brad Maloney
Manuscript setting
K: Bb
|:(3FGA|BfdB AecA|BcdB F2BA|GBcd edcB|Acfe (3agf (3edc|
BfdB AecA|BcdB F2BA|Ggfe|dcBA|c2B2 B2:|
|:(2dcB|Acf=e fdcB|Acf=e fagf|=efga bgeg|f=efg f2f_e|
dedc Bdg2|cdcB Acf2|gbag fedc|B2d2 B2:|
# Posted on March 30th 2004 by Dow
Oops, beginning 2nd part should be a triplet (3, and also I think bar 4 sounds better as |Acf=e gf (3_edc|
# Posted on March 30th 2004 by Dow
If you're playing this in G, there's an opportunity to drop in a nice G# in bar 3 of the A-part as well as bar 5 of the B-part that Jorg mentioned, so for bar 3 you get |E^GAB cBA=G|. In the key of Bb, this comes out as |G=Bcd edc_B|.
# Posted on August 7th 2004 by Dow
The great Galway flute player Tom Morrison recorded this on a 78, he called it the London Clog. His first part is a tad different - GABG FGAF GABG D2GF and so on. Surprised to find it was a Hill tune, and not to be confused with his "South Shore" hornpipe, which in Ireland is called the Scholar.
# Posted on March 29th 2005 by Kevin Rietmann
The Wonder Hornpipe
Great to read this all information about one of my favourite hornpipes. I always find it's sad that the composer of some of these great tunes seldom gets a mention.
# Posted on July 27th 2007 by Free Reed
The Wonder Hornpipe
Hi Brad - I enjoy your contributions to this site, so I hope you don't mind if I offer an alternative opinion. James Hill did not compose the "Banks Hornpipe" (nor was it Scott Skinner, but Parazotti), and it's only conjecture that Hill wrote "Rights of Man". So many other great tunes are his, though, including
Beeswing http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/945
Bottle Bank http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7429
Earl Grey http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4678
The Hawk http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3146
The High Level http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2261
The Locomotive http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5382
to name but a few.
# Posted on July 28th 2007 by nigelg
George Ross' hornpipe (2nd tune) by De Dannan
In "Hibernian rhapsody" by De Dannan there is a couple of hornpipes under the title "George Ross' hornpipes". The 2nd is equal to The Wonder hornpipe.
# Posted on November 14th 2007 by OsvaldoLaviosa
George Ross' Hornpipes ~ #2of 2 ~ De Danann
From "Hibernian rhapsody" by De Danann you find a couple of hornpipes:
George Ross' hornpipes 1 & 2
1. "The New Century" http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2001
2. "The Wonder "
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by OsvaldoLaviosa
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by ceolachan