Hornpipes

This is the place for hornpipes in 4/4 time as opposed to the earlier versions that can be found in the 3/2 and 6/4 tunes section.

A probably definitive article on the hornpipe was written by George Emmerson in the Folk Music Journal Vol.2 No.1

Many of the 4/4 hornpipes in the English tradition originated in the theatre, the most famous being the Sadler's Wells, in London.

Many of the tunes we play now were named for the actor/dancers who performed them - Fisher, Durang, Ball..... The tunes travelled and many of them crossed the North Sea where they settled into a new Scandinavian home as Engelskas.

The early tunes were mostly written down and presumably played 'straight', ie. without dotted notes. As the 4/4 hornpipe moved into the end of the 19th century, it acquired a more dotted characteristic and many of these tunes shared a common feel with the Schottische and many Schottische dances today are done to dotted hornpipes - eg. Nottingham Swing.

Please refer to the help page on Referencing Hornpipes before adding tunes.

• Albert Farmer's Bonfire Tune
• Astley's Hornpipe
• Ball's Hornpipe
• Bath Hornpipe
• Brown Paper Hornpipe
• Butcher's Hornpipe
• The Cage
• Chatham Hornpipe
• Cliffe Hornpipe
• Cokey Hornpipe
• Cook Hornpipe
• Come Ashore Jolly Tar With Your Trousers On
• Cuckoo's Nest
• Elterwater Hornpipe
• Fisher's Hornpipe
• George Craske's Hornpipe
• Gloucester Hornpipe
• Grand Hornpipe
• Gypsey Hornpipe
• Gypsy Hornpipe
• New Gypsey Hornpipe
• Howsen's New
• Kershaw's Hornpipe
• Kirkgate Hornpipe
• London Hornpipe
• Lord Nelson's Hornpipe
• [[Nelson's Hornpipe
• Manchester Hornpipe
• Miss Baker's Hornpipe
• Miss Gayton's Hornpipe
• Miss Menager's Hornpipe
• Miss Richards' Hornpipe
• Mittel's Hornpipe
• Pigeon on the Gate
• Portobello Hornpipe
• Prince of Cabourg's Hornpipe
• The Prussian Hornpipe
• Red Pettycoat Hornpipe
• Sadlers Wells Hornpipe
• Savage Hornpipe
• Sheffield Hornpipe
• Shipdham Hornpipe
• Shuter's Hornpipe
• Sportsman's Hornpipe
• Staffordshire Hornpipe
• Tom Tolley's Hornpipe
• True Blue Hornpipe
• Tumbler's Hornpipe
• Miss Sackville's Fancy
• Sweeps' Hornpipe
• Worcestershire Hornpipe
• Worsborough Hornpipe
• Yarmouth Hornpipe