Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on July 16th 2007 by nicholas.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Liddell's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
dc|:BGBd g2 fg|afge d2 ef|gfgf ebag|f2 d2 d2 dc|
BGBd g2 fg|afge d2 cB|cedc BAGF|1 A2 G2 G2 dc:|2 A2 G2 G2 fg||
|:afdf afdf|bgeg bgef|gfgf ebag|f2 d2 d2 gf|
egdg cgBg|egdg cgBg|cedc BAGF|1 A2 G2 G2 fg:|2 A2 G2 G2 ||
Liddell's Hornpipe
This is one to be found in the Charlton Memorial Tune Book, a collection of tunes suited for the Northumbrian Pipes but whose introduction says, "We have not sought to confine ourselves to 'Northumbrian tunes'.."
I do not know where this tune originated or who Liddell was, though perhaps the latter has left other musical traces.
# Posted on July 16th 2007 by nicholas
This is a pretty cool tune. I think it would go well with Glamorganshire Hornpipe. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1995 . Anywho, just for my sake, here is a different format of the same tune...
X: 1
T: Liddell's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
d>c|:B>GB>d g2 f>g|a>fg>e d2 e>f|g>fg>f e>ba>g|f2 d2 d2 d>c|
B>GB>d g2 f>g|a>fg>e d2 c>B|c>ed>c B>AG>F|1 A2 G2 G2 d>c:|2 A2 G2 G2 f>g|
|:a>fd>f a>fd>f|b>ge>g b>ge>f|g>fg>f e>ba>g|f2 d2 d2 g>f|
e>gd>g c>gB>g|e>gd>g c>gB>g|c>ed>c B>AG>F|1 A2 G2 G2 f>g:|2 A2 G2 G2 |
# Posted on July 16th 2007 by Jeffery
The tune's not dotted in the source I've given above. (Some of the hornpipes are, some are not.)
# Posted on July 16th 2007 by nicholas
Liddell's Hornpipe
On Pete Loud's website giving lists of tunes, Liddell's Hornpipe is not in the extensive list he gives of "Northumbrian And Tyneside Tunes", but is in another one headed "Popular Session Tunes", featuring many Irish, Scottish, Shetland tunes - tunes which, as I understand it, have no (or no obvious) origin in NE England.
Judging by the NE composers Pete has listed along with the tunes attributed to them, if Liddell of this hornpipe had been known as a NE composer, he'd quite likely have been mentioned in Pete's list of Northumbrian tunes, which he isn't. So I assume for now that this hornpipe doesn't come from North-East England, but from somewhere else (Scotland? Ireland? America?).
# Posted on July 16th 2007 by nicholas
(England? Wales?)
# Posted on July 16th 2007 by nicholas
Transylvania? Even vampires dance the hornpipe...
In different situations I have played this both swung and straight...
# Posted on July 17th 2007 by ceolachan
L: 1/2 at 120 bpm
Straight and played more like a reel at around L: 1/2 at 120 bpm...
# Posted on July 17th 2007 by ceolachan