Hornpipes and jigs were two of the exciting additions to our repertoire over the past three or four years. In case you haven’t played many of them and were wondering about thematic structure, jigs often (but not always!) have the pattern AA, BB, CC, DD, etc. and can be chained together to add to the time the dancers are dancing. Hornpipes often (but not always!) have an AABABA structure. Both are in compound triple meter (but very occasionally not, such as Wrong Foot Forward), and have a happy lilt.
We’ve added a new hornpipe, The Boys of Bluehill. No one seems to know its exact origin, or which boys or hills it’s about, but we know you’ll enjoy playing it!
