Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on February 3rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as Gloster, The Gloster , Gloucester.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Gloucester, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|:(3DEF|G2g2g2 d>B|c>Bc>d e>fg>e|d>BG>B e>dc>B|A>Bc>A G>FE>D|
G2g2g2 d>B|c>Bc>d e>fg>e|d>BG>B e>cA>F|G2 G2 G2:|
|:(3FGA|B2 B>A B>cd>B|c>Bc>d e>fg>e|d>BG>B e>dc>B|A>Bc>A G>FE>D|
B2 B>A B>cd>B|c>Bc>d e>fg>e|d>BG>B e>cA>F|G2 G2 G2:|
The Gloucester Hornpipe
Hornpipes are supposed to have a maritime association, but Gloucester is not on the coast ....
Gloucester is a small city in south-west England. It is situated near the east bank of the River Severn, and was once a thriving commercial port. Today, the docks are mostly only used by pleasure craft.
Although Gloucester lies close to the Severn, this river has the second highest tidal range in the world, and was thus deemed too dangerous for navigation. To get around this, an artificial 16-mile waterway was constructed called "The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal" which links Gloucester docks to downstream Sharpness, where the tide is less severe. The canal also shortens the distance considerably, as it bypasses several meanders of the river.
You can of course use the river if you prefer, but expect to meet something like this:
http://www.severn-bore.co.uk/images/bore2.jpg
# Posted on February 3rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
There is a variant of this tune, The Men of Wrexham's Hornpipe (Pibddawns Gwyr Wrecsam), in the Welsh triple harp repertoire.
Also variously known as The March of the Men of Wrexham and Pibddawns Heol Y Felin (The Mill Street Hornpipe - although this could be a wrongly attributed name, as there's another Welsh hornpipe by this name).
X: 1
T: The Men of Wrexham's Hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: G
|: Bc | d2 g2 gdBG | c2 e2 e2 ge | dBdB edcB | ABcB AGFD |
d2 g2 gdBG | c2 e2 e2 ge | dBdB cAFA |G2 B2 G2 :|
|: Bc | dBdB d2 g2 | ecec e2 g2 | dBdB edcB | ABcB AGFD |
dBdB d2 g2 | ecec e2 g2 | dBdB cAFA |G2 B2 G2 :|
# Posted on February 4th 2009 by OrganicPeatCreature
"Hornpipes are supposed to have a maritime association, but Gloucester is not on the coast"
??
Neither is Wrexham.... or Sheffield or Tuamgraney or Tullycrine...
# Posted on February 4th 2009 by OrganicPeatCreature
Ha! But I only said "supposed to be". And many are.
Wrexham and Sheffield are both on rivers, which lead to the sea .... And Sheffield has a canal, as well.
And Tuamgraney and Tullycrine are not too far from the Shannon
# Posted on February 4th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Thanks for the cross-ref to "Men of Wrexham", by the way..
# Posted on February 4th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Gloucester Hornpipe
This is one tune by this name but there is another tune also called the Gloucester Hornpipe in "The Coleford Jig - Traditional Tunes from Gloucestershire" by Charles Menteith & Paul Burgess. However that tune is also called The Swansea Hornpipe and The Man from Newry". Confusion reigns
# Posted on February 5th 2009 by ph
Alternate names
Thanks for th info, ph.
Swansea and Gloucester are both on the same maritime trading route, so - who knows - the tune could easily have been "exported" from one place to the other.
# Posted on February 6th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
"Pibddawns Gwŷr Wrecsam" / "The Men Of Wrexham's Hornpipe"
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on February 28th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/9394
# Posted on March 2nd 2009 by ceolachan
Hornpipes were popular in 3/2 and later in 4/4 massively so on stage in the late 1700s when they became associated with sailors on stage and so spread through the populataion. Name seems only to serve as a help to rememeber where it was heard or from whom. As today not necessarliy the origin but a useful tag.
# Posted on October 1st 2009 by Michael Sam Wild