Salem Hornpipe & Ulster Hornpipe

[Eric Lerner]

Here’s a couple of G major hornpipes I’ve been working out with my newly acquired Edgley Heritage C/G Anglo.  I found the Ulster Hornpipe in O’Neill’s Music of Ireland.  Surprisingly, it’s not on The Session at all.  It’s online at the Traditional Tune Archive here – 
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Ulster_Hornpipe
but with three typos in the ABC (three high Cs are bumped down an octave).  Here’s ABC corrected based on my paper O’Neill’s – 

T:Ulster Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Hornpipe
S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland (1903), No. 1599
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
dc|BGFG DGBd|cBAG FAGF|Ggfe dBAG|B2A2A2 dc|
BGFG DGBd|cBAG FAGF|Ggfe dcAc|B2G2G2 :||
dc|BGBd gabg|abc’a gfed|egfa gbac'’|bgfg e^def|
gbdg egBd|cBAG FAGF|Ggfe dcAc|B2 G2G2 dc|
BGBd gabg|abc'’a gfed|(3efg (3fga (3gab (3abc'’|bgfg e^def|
gbdg egBd|cBAG FAGF|Ggfe dcAc|B2G2G2|]

 

 

I found the Salem Hornpipe in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, where it is credited to P.S. Gilmore.  I have to admit I was unfamiliar with Gilmore until I looked him up last week.  Through much of the 1870s and 1880s, he was America’s best known and most popular band leader.  He wrote the lyrics to When Johnny Comes Marching Home.  He was the leader of The Gilmore Band, the very first band ever to make a commercial recording on Edison Wax Cylinders.  He introduced the custom of celebrating New Year’s Eve in New York’s Time Square.  But early in his career, he directed the Salem Massachusetts Brass Band, and composed the Salem Hornpipe.