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hornpipe
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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horn·pipe
/ ˈhôrnˌpīp/
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n.
a lively dance associated with sailors, typically performed by one person.
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a piece of music for such a dance.
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 "Hartlepool Mail (Hartlepool, England)")
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Hornpipe dancers prepare for record attempt.
Newspaper article from: Hartlepool Mail (Hartlepool, England); 5/30/2008; 465 words
; ...I am hopefully going to be among 500 Hartlepudlian volunteers trying to set the record for the most people dancing to the hornpipe at one time. To prepare I was joined by eight keen youngsters from the Bad Taste Crew dance workshop who helped guide me through...
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Keyboard Suites: Z 660-663; Z 666-Z 668; Z-668 Prelude. Chaconne, "Timon of Athens." Hornpipe, Z T684. Keyboard Grounds: Z 681-682; 645; Z D221-222
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 1/1/2009; ; 669 words
; PURCELL Keyboard Suites: Z 660-663; Z 666-Z 668; Z-668 Prelude. Chaconne, "Timon of Athens." Hornpipe, Z T684. Keyboard Grounds: Z 681-682; 645; Z D221-222 * Richard Egarr (hpd) (period instrument) * HARMONIA MUNDI 907428...
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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Sculpture celebrates daddy of hornpipe.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 2/28/2006; 700+ words
; ...celebrated exponent of the hornpipe style, he left behind...wrote several very fine hornpipes and many more and he was the daddy of them all at hornpipe playing." Contemporary...composition, the High Level hornpipe, written for the opening...
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Record hornpipe effort pays off.
Newspaper article from: Hartlepool Mail (Hartlepool, England); 7/7/2008; 474 words
; ...record for the most people dancing to the hornpipe simultaneously. A first attempt saw...Aerial Theatre were planning on doing a hornpipe with a difference as they dangled upside...rain. Choreographer of the Hartlepool Hornpipe, Amanda Drago, from Falling Cat, said...
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Amphitryon, or the Two Sosias: Overture; Saraband; Hornpipe; Celia, that I once was blest; Scotch tune; For Iris I Sigh; Air; Minuet; Pastoral dialogue; Hornpipe; Bourée. Sir Barnaby Whigg: Blow, Boreas, blow. The Gordian Knot Unty'd: Overture; Second Music Aire; Second Music Minuet; First Act Air; Second Act Rondeau; Third Act Aire; Fourth Act Jigg; Chacone. Circe: We must assemble by a sacrifice; Their necessary Aid you use; Come every Demon; Magician's dance; Pluto, arise!; Lovers who to their first Embraces go
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...PURCELL Amphitryon, or the Two Sosias: Overture; Saraband; Hornpipe; Celia, that I once was blest; Scotch tune; For Iris I Sigh; Air; Minuet; Pastoral dialogue; Hornpipe; Boure. Sir Barnaby Whigg: Blow, Boreas, blow. The Gordian...
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 "The Racing Post (London, England)")
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Horse Racing: Hornpipe set to lead his rivals a merry dance; TRADING POST.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 1/16/2007; 700+ words
; Byline: Matt Williams Hornpipe 3.10 Wolverhampton Back Hinted at return to winning form over...winners - it's a competitive race It wasn't that long ago that Hornpipe was being looked on as a serious prospect for some of the better...
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Review Features: How an English sentence danced an Irish hornpipe Ours is the only global language since Latin. Greeks who talk to Belgians about French defence systems use it. It's our gift to the world
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/8/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...verb, object) into a melodic line that skips like an Irish hornpipe and doesn't seem to have any grammar in it at all. But it...McCourting Frank McCourt, which doesn't skip like an Irish hornpipe at all.) "Don't you love the way we can make nouns into...
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 "Mundelein Review (IL)")
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Hornpipe and Horton ready for Blarney stone
Newspaper article from: Mundelein Review (IL); 3/13/1997; 700+ words
; ...where the 13-year old redhead will compete in the All World Irish Dance Championships. The reel, the treble jig and the hornpipe are just three traditional Irish melodies Horton can expect to perform to in the prestigious competition. Since he began dancing...
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Is that a hornpipe - or are you just pleased to see me?
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 12/7/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...drifting by, the girls from Nettie Fowler's spa kick their legs high so that their skirts flare like sails. The trawlermens' hornpipe is so ruggedly muscular that it almost bursts the confines of the Savoy's stage. As Nettie, Lesley Garrett is bizarre casting...
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Letter: Dancing the Hornpipe Your Memories
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail; 8/12/2006; ; 244 words
; ...Moseley, to dance for the king and queen in 1937-38, but I thought it was at the Town Hall not Bingley Hall. I danced the Hornpipe. Our suits were made by Dunn's Mens Outfitters and our photograph was in the Mail. Mrs Beryl Robinson, Hall Green
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hornpipe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
hornpipe English folk dance known since the 16th...wind instrument that accompanied it. The hornpipes of the 17th and 18th cent. have moderate...and numerous gestures and steps. The hornpipe appears in the works of Purcell and Handel...
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dancing
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...survives in the ethnic repertory is dance music (jigs, reels, hornpipes), it is scarcely surprising to discover that corresponding...Single, double, and hop (or slip) jigs, reels, and hornpipes were danced as solos, or in group formation. In the mid...
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matelotte
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
matelotte (from Fr. matelot , sailor). Dutch sailors' dance like a hornpipe, perf. in wooden shoes, the dancers' arms being interlaced behind their backs.
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Music
Book article from: American Eras
...audiences were treated to a variety of acts that ranged from plays and operas to sentimental or satirical songs, comic dancing of hornpipes and jigs, and pantomimes and burlesques, often all on the same bill. Prominent producers in the musical theater typically...
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Lerchenquartett
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...Tostquartette ; it is sometimes described as Op.64, No.5. Its nickname is derived from the opening. The rhythm of the last movement has given rise to another, less frequently used, nickname, the ‘Hornpipe’ Qt.
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