The West End hornpipe

Another simple but fine Northumbrian hornpipe attributed to James Hill.

I think it makes a better rant than hornpipe.

Essentially a D-Maj tune, with modulation into D-Mix (just for the second bar of the “B” part) , which adds character and interest.

Notated from Martin Mulvihill’s 1978 LP ‘Traditional Irish Fiddling from County Limerick’. Martin “learned it from the fiddle playing of Tom Dillane”.

Northumbrian, transcribed from the playing of Jim Rutherford as recorded in 1954 by Peter Kennedy. Has hints of the Norfolk version but (imho) more guts.

With a few notes reversed, this bears a strong resemblance to the Hornpipe called “Tomorrow Morning”: https://thesession.org/tunes/2233

The version of West End in Kennedy (Second Fiddler’s Tune Book. EFDSS 1954) seems to be quite different from the one above, so perhaps this setting should be filed somewhere else, but for present purposes here is a 2-part arrangement of the Kennedy tune.

Bazza’s setting (X:3) is quite well known in Scotland under the name “The Kirks” or “Kirk’s Hornpipe”. It can be found in Middleton’s Collection of 1870 with the latter title. Although there are similarities with “The West End Hornpipe” I’m not convinced they are the same tune.

This is known in Scotland as “The West End Hornpipe”. It was published in triplicate in ‘Honeyman’s Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor’ (Edinburgh 1898) to portray three different styles of bowing hornpipes: Newcastle Style, Sand Dance Style and Sailor’s Style.

“Ebb Wren’s Hornpipe” corresponds to the Sailor’s style, “almost identical with that of bowing reels”. The other styles can be seen on this page: https://thesession.org/tunes/7554

And not to be confused with “Kirk’s” 🙂

…or “Spock’s” 🙁

This is part of the Circassian Circle dance set
on the CD “Australian Traditional Dance Tunes, Volume 1” by the Australian Band, Wongawilli.
The set:
Circassian Circle aka Hill’s Fancy
Ebb Wren’s Hornpipe
Luedecker’s Polka
Teddy Creighton’s Step Dance Tune

As heard at a session in Austin, TX. (Played by Sam Teeter, a fiddle player.)

This tune is essentially the same as Sean Healy’s (https://thesession.org/tunes/9443). 2nd bar of the turn has B’s where the other version has C’s. Otherwise very similar.

This is essentially a duplicate of Seán Healy’s Hornpipe https://thesession.org/tunes/9443

see https://thesession.org/tunes/18890 for a close relative , the Ebb Wren’s Hornpipe