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David's

hornpipe

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on March 31st 2007 by ceolachan.

This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.

Also known as Davie's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Borderlands by Kathryn Tickell
Debbie Scott by Debbie Scott
Live-Disc 1 by Natalie MacMaster
Stepping Stones by Juniper
Yours Truly by Natalie MacMaster

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"David's Hornpipe" ~ by Robert Whinham

This is for Alex Boydell, aologies Alex that I was semi-conscious and did not get the missing measure and corrections to you in time... I'm guessing we were both either semi-conscious or in need of reading glasses. This is the adulterated version first. I'll be adding more...

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by ceolachan

"Remember Me: The Fiddle Music of Robert Whinham"

Compiled and edited by Graham Dixon
Wallace Music, 1995
ISBN: 0-9511572-1-3

This is a great collection ~ WITH PICTURE! ;-)
No, really, great scholarship too, highly recommended. I just wish Graham's other works were still available, like the James Hill collection, sigh!

Page 29: "David's Hornpipe"

Here are the notes from beneath that transcription ~

In the original manuscript the following verse appears beneath the tune:

"David with his harp play'd psalms
To win the Lord into good terms
But had he play'd this merry strain
He'd pleas'd the Lord as well again."

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by ceolachan

Further notes from the book ~

An unattributed version of this tune appears in JD* where it is called 'Davie's Hornpipe'. That version of the tune has a number of differences in detail ~ " to the transcription given in the book, and Graham Dixon gives these few differences:

In bars 1 & 5 of the A-part ~
~ | GFGD (3EFG (3DEF | ~

In bars 3 & 7 of the A-part the G is natural, not sharp (^g)...

The lead in from the A-part to the B-part is also different ~
|: DC | ~

JD* ~ J.Davidson ("Kielder Jock"); manuscript early 20th Century; copy in Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum.

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by ceolachan

"David's / Davie's Hornpipe" ~ by Robert Whinham

~ unadulterated and minus the swing & most triplets...& with a few other possibilities...

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by ceolachan

The Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum

http://www.bagpipemuseum.org.uk/

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by ceolachan

~ Craft Centre & Tea Rooms ~ ;-)

& "An excellent selection of recorded and sheet music on sale."

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by ceolachan

Mea culpa! Alex Boydell...

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by ceolachan

ROBERT WHINHAM WEEK ~ common then, who's next?

I can't enter another one just yet, even if it were Alex who started this... See if you've a favourite Whinham tune to add over the next week? I'll be back... ;-)

# Posted on March 31st 2007 by ceolachan

I think Kathryn Tickell's recorded this one.

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by nicholas

Damn spelling bug ~ alright nicolas, come on (not 'common') and find a favourite Robert Whinham tune to contribute? ~ Anyone else? :-/

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by ceolachan

Do you play...

the second G in bar seven of the A part sharp or natural? The sharp sounds unnatural there to me. (Sorry for the pun-isment!)

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by muspc

"The sharp sounds unnatural there to me." ~ muspc

I almost thought I was in another tune... I like the pun... I've just checked the other sources at hand ~ they all have it as #... That said, if you are happier with the natural, I see no reason why you couldn't take it that way... There is a Whinham tune where all the transcripts I've seen have it natural, but I take it sharp, just that one time in the whole tune, and a 'g' too...

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by ceolachan

~ | c>ea>^g a>d (3f=ga | g2 (3ddd G2 :| ~

DAMN! Apologies ~ I missed that second 'g'... You are absolutely right. It is natural... :-( The correction has been made in the ABC's...

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by ceolachan

Thanks muspc...

# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by ceolachan

ROBERT WHINHAM WEEK?! ~ anyone? ~

~ come on ~ Dow,? Nigel?, Nicholas?, Alex?, Maryland Highlander?, anyone?

Out of respect for a request, 'Fitchett Week' has been delayed till May... ;-)

'muspc', your comment on the 'unnatural' came as I was messing with a few different tunes, and guess what, =G & G#, =g & g# were part of that, so I was not fully conscious, but that isn't unusual for me. As well, I sometimes play that beat of that measure simply f>a... All I had to do was stop, slow down, and go check this transcription... :-/

I now have another tune to make sense of, by request, but as played by a favourite musician, so lots of joy there mixed in with the frustration of trying to get their take on it and transcribe it into something reasonable...

# Posted on April 3rd 2007 by ceolachan

"David's Hornpipe" ~ rescued duplication ~ dear nicholas of the North

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on February 6th 2008 by nicholas.
~ /tunes/display/8232

# Posted on February 7th 2008 by ceolachan