Save the Hornpipe!
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008“Save the Hornpipe!” That is the cry and motto of the N.H.P.S – the National Hornpipe Preservation Society. Hornpipes are lovely tunes generally written in 2/4 or 4/4 time nowadays, that have a jaunty “dotted rhythm” characterized by a dotted eighth note followed by a sixteenth note. They are also an “Endangered Species” as hornpipes [...]