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TOWER WAITS HORNPIPE. English, "Old" Hornpipe (3/2 time). G Minor. Standard. AABB. The tune appears in Walsh's Lancashire Jigs, Hornpipes, Joaks, etc. (c. 1730). Waits were paid musicians who served as civic functionaries, akin to the town crier.
RAVENSCROFT'S FANCY. English, Old Hornpipe (3/2 time). E Flat Major (Walsh): G Major (Geoghegan). Standard. ABCDEF (Geoghegan): AABBCCDDEEFF (Walsh). The tune can be found in Walsh's Lancashire Jigs, Hornpipes, Joaks etc. (3rd Volume, c. 1730). The title perhaps refers to the English composer Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1590-c. 1633), responsible for the preservation of the largest collection of popular vocal music in his three printed catch books: Pammelia (1609), Deuteromalia (1609), and Melismata (1611). Geoghegan (Compleat Tutor for the Pastoral or New Bagpipe), c. 1745-46; pg. 26.
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RAVENSCROFT'S MAGGOT. English, "Old" Hornpipe (3/2 time). E Major. Standard. AABBCCDD. Maggot, from the Italian word maggioletta meaning a plaything, a trifle. The tune appears in Walsh's Lancashire Jiggs, Hornpipes, Joaks etc. (c. 1730).
RAVENSCROFT'S HORNPIPE. English, Old Hornpipe (3/2 time). England, North?West. A Minor. Standard. AABBCC. The tune is originally found in the third volume of The Dancing Master (Pearsona and Young), c. 1726. Knowles (Northern Frisk), 1988; No. 45.
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