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Posted By: Desert Dancer
15-Oct-11 - 07:01 PM
Thread Name: origin of the tune Staten Island
Subject: RE: origin of the tune Staton Island
Sorry - some days I just get obsessed with these things...

The MacLean Music Collection from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia includes "104 published books of Scottish and Cape Breton fiddle music, all of which were either purchased by or given to Joseph MacLean and date from 1793 to 1996".

There is a reasonably good representation of pre-1850 titles. They have ever so helpfully indexed the entire thing by tune name (you can download a pdf at that site).

Here are the only "Staten Island" or "Burns" hornpipe results:

Tune title
Author (if any)
Book title
Publisher
Date of publication (I added these for the last three)


Staten Island
One Thousand Fiddle Tunes
Cole Publishing Co., M. M.
1967 (This is a reprint of a 1940 publication that is actually the same thing as "Ryan's Mammoth Collection" 1883, which came from Elias Howe's.)

Staten Island
Burt, John
Cornhuskers Book Of Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes, The
Jarman & Co., Harry E.
1938

Staten Island
Kerr's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th Collections of Merry Melodies for the Violin
Kerr, James S.
~ 1870+

Staten Island
Kerr's Collection of Reels & Strathspeys, Highland Schottisches, Country Dances, & Etc.
Kerr, James S.
1875

Staten Island or Burn's Hornpipe
Milne, Peter
Middleton's Selection of Strathspeys, Reels, & Etc. For the Violin
Bayley & Ferguson Ltd.
1870 (plus later editions)


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