Thursday 29 November 2018
Tune of the Day: The Medal
Traditional Scottish/Irish hornpipe
The earliest appearance of this tune is as “Lord Eglington's Hornpipe” in James Alexander's Fifty New Scotch & Irish Reels and Hornpipes, published in London around 1825. The same tune can also be found, with the title “Ross's Hornpipe”, in the mid-19th century manuscripts of Irish musicologist James Goodman. The title “The Medal”, probably of American origin, is first used in Harding's All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances, published in New York in 1905.