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Thread #25385   Message #297586
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
14-Sep-00 - 08:29 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: The Second Star/The Sunshine Hornpi
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Second Star/The Sunshine Hornpi
The Fiddler's Companion  has the following entries:

SUNSHINE HORNPIPE, THE (Crannciuil Taitneam na Greine). AKA and see "Shunster's Hornpipe." English, Irish, Scottish; Hornpipe. England, Northumberland. A Major (Carlin, O'Neill): G Major (Mallinson). Standard. AABB. Carlin, 1977; pg. 46. Mallinson (Enduring), 1995; No. 75, pg. 31. O'Neill (1001), 1986; No. 952, pg. 163.

SHUNSTER'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "The Sunshine Hornpipe." American, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard. AABB. "Can be used as a Clog" (Cole). Cole, 1940; pg. 100.

SECOND STAR HORNPIPE, THE. Scottish, Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard. AABBCCDD. Composed by G. Tate. Hunter, 1988; No. 339 (arrangement and variations with Arthur S. Robertson).

JC's Tunefinder has two versions of Shutter's Hornpipe, which you might like to check out in case they're anything like what you're looking for.  I have a copy of the version of The Sunshine which Mallinson prints, but he doesn't give sources, so I don't know which version it is; though it's in Enduring Irish Session Tunes, it sounds more Northumbrian than Irish to me.  If you'd like a copy, let me know.  I haven't been able to find the tune in the online O'Neill.

Malcolm