The Staffordshire Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Staffordshire Hornpipe" is an English sword dance tune in 2/2 time and D Major.<br> It is the second figure of the sword dance from the Flamborough, England.<br> One of the earliest recordings of the tune was in 1909 when Cecil Sharp waxed it<br> on a cylinder from the playing of John Locke from whom he also recorded "Blue Eyed Stranger".<br> It was printed in Callaghan's Hardcore English (2007), Karpeles & Schofield's<br> A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951), Kirkpatrick & Harris's Opus Pocus (1988) and<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984).<br>
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