Princess Beatrice

hornpipe

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on March 10th 2005 by FyfferGuy.

This tune has been added to 23 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Fidil by Ciarán Ó Maonaigh And Aidan O'Donnell
• Serenade by Mick McAuley And Winifred Horan
• Shetland Dialect - Language Of The Fiddle by Various Artists
• The Blue Lamp by Jonny Hardie And Gavin Marwick
• Walking Stones by Ken Kolodner, Laura Risk, Robin Bullock
• With Silver And All by Jenna Reid

X: 1
T: Princess Beatrice
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
BA|GB,EG FB,DF|EB,EG BAGF|GBed cBAG|FEDC B,AGF|
GB,EG FB,DF|EB,EG BAGF|d^c=cA GEDF|G2 B2 G2::DC|
B,GCG DGCG|B,DGB dgdB|B,ACA DAEA|FAcA FDCA,|
B,GCG DGCG|B,DGB dgdB|d^c=cA GEDF|G2 B2 G2:|

Princess Beatrice

Tune origin info from scottish-fiddle.com:

"Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore was born on April 14, 1857. She was Queen Victoria's ninth (and last) child. This Hornpipe was written by W. B. Laybourn in her honour."

The tune I originally found was in B-flat major, which is painful on the fife/flute. I transposed it, cleaned it up a bit to my taste, and this is how I play it. This is a real fun tune to play on the fife (up one octave, of course), and it took me a long time to be able to play those jumps, but it was worth the effort. Not sure how this key will work on fiddle, but someone try it out and let me know. Perhaps I'll put the Bb version here as well ...

# Posted on March 10th 2005 by FyfferGuy

Don't suppose this has anything to do with the same Beatrice as the Reel Beatrice?

# Posted on March 11th 2005 by Donough

Will the "Reel" Beatrice please stand up??

I dunno. Maybe. :-\

# Posted on March 11th 2005 by FyfferGuy