The lively Hornpipe is really very characteristic of the Englishin nature and is a very old Celtic solo dance that is very much based on the sailor's abilities during the dancing with the sailors originally performing it with folded arms. The steps are clearly shipwise such as hauling in the anchor, climbing or rigging ropes etc. The Sailor's Hornpipe was most popular during the 16th to 18th Centuries but the original (Hornpipe) goes much farther back and was originally done by men only.
It is said that the English sailing ship and Royal Navy Captain James Cook (1728-1779) thought dancing was most useful to keep his men in good health during a voyage. When it was calm, and the sailors had
consequently nothing to do, he made them dance -- usually the hornpipe -- to the sound of a fiddle; and to this he attributed much freedom from illness on his ship.
Today, mainly due to competitions, there are basically two kinds of hornpipes - 'fast or traditional' and the 'slow or advanced'. It is somewhat difficult to master this dance as a beginner and usually is taught dances like the light and Slip Jig and some reels before progressing on to the Hornpipe. There is much written on the net about the origins having to do with the ancient Wind Instrument called the' Hornpipe' which I will leave to the other sites to detail.
A Hornepype (Aston)
An Comhra Donn (The Brown Coffin)
$ College Hornpipe
Come Away
Durang's Hornpipe
Frances' Hornpipe
Fisher's Hornpipe ($ krauss)
Fisher's Hornpipe Medley
Golden Eagle Hornpipe
Happy Day Hornpipe
Happy Hollow Hornpipe
Hornpipe (Aston)
Hornpipe for Samoyeds
Hornpipe in “A”
Hornpipe in 'E' (ship version) (Purcell)
Jock Thomsons Hornpipe
Liverpool Hornpipe
London Hornpipe (Londonberry)
Monroe's Hornpipe
Old Timer's Hornpipe
The Fly (Fishers Hornpipe)
Thunder Hornpipe
Vinton's Hornpipe
$ Water Music: Hornpipe
Wobble Gears
1) Edison Blue Amberol cylinder phonograph record #1770 - Fisher's Hornpipe Medley by D'Almaine.
2) Play-Rite Music Roll: Columbia Roll #0-599
Aldridges Hornpipe
Fischer's Hornpipe
Ocean Wave Hornpipe
Slip Jig
Arkansas Traveller
Folk Dancing
Oregon Hornpipe
Smith's Hornpipe
Barn Dances
Highland Fling
Parish Hornpipe
Square Dancing
Blackbird, the (set)
Highland Schottische
Pop Goes The Weasel
St. Clair Hornpipe
Bricklayers Hornpipe
Huntsman Hornpipe
Quadrilles
Step Dances
Cane Hornpipe
Irish Set Dances
Red Lion Hornpipe
Strathspeys
Camptown Hornpipe
Irish Hornpipe
Reels
Sword Dances
Christmas Hornpipe
Jigs (Gigue)
Rickett's Hornpipe
Tap Dance
Cincinnati Hornpipe
Jockey Hornpipe
Sailor's Hornpipe
Venetian Hornpipe
Clog (clogging)
Lamp Lighters Hornpipe
Savin Hill Hornpipe
Whipples Hornpipe
College Hornpipe
Money Musk
Schottische
Village Horn Pipe
Corithian Hornpipe
Morris Dances (Moresque)
Scotch Hornpipe
Country Dances (Contre)
Mountain Horn Pipe
Scottish Lilt, the
Virginia Reel
Dundee Hornpipe
New Century Hornpipe
Scottish Nat'l. Dances
Niagara Hornpipe
Seann Triubhas
Fetter Hornpipe
Ole Bull Hornpipe
Sir Roger de Coverly
~Camden Hornpipe Set
~Gairloch Hornpipe
Competition Dances
~Jessies also Kendalls
T. P. 'Tippy' Cooke
Joseph LeDasma III
Aston, Hugh (1485-1558)
Sailor's Hornpipe (F. H. Ramberg, *circa 1100)
Chaucer’s works
Emerson, Bill (c.1940s)
Samuel Pepys Diary
Handell
Jackson, Tommy (c1950s)
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
All Star Ceilidhe Band (1950s)
Skillet Lickers
The Chieftains
Yo-Yo Ma
Dancing the Slaves
Hornpipe Wind Instrument
Slavery
Ceilis (group dances)
Fiddle
Pibgorn, Pibcorn, Piob
Stockhorn
Scotch Measure
Inishfree softshoes
Rutherford flexi hardshoes
Hootenanny
Bluegrass
Steps to Sailor's Hornpipe: By Elias Howe (1891) (Music: Durang's Hornpipe, Danced by a single Person.)
Double shuffle and gliding step round--heel and toe back, finish with back shuffle Double shuffle and gliding step round--side shuffle right and left, finishing with beats -- repeat first change Pigeon wing going round -- repeat first change Rocking step forward on the toes--repeat first change Wave step down - -repeat first change Changes back, finish with back shuffle and beats -- repeat first change Wave step down -- repeat &c. Heel and toe shuffle obliquely back -- repeat &c. Whirligig, with beats down -- repeat &c. Sis-sone and entre-chats back -- repeat &c. Running forward on the heels -- repeat &c. Double scotch step, with a heel brand in place -- repeat &c. Single Scotch step, back -- repeat &c. Parried toes round, on toes in and out --repeat &c Cooper shuffle right and back --repeat &c. Grasshopper step down -- repeat &c. Beat on the toes back -- repeat &c. Jockey crotch step down -- repeat &c. Traverse step round, with hornpipe gliding step, Bow and finish.
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