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HORNPIPE

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 711 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HORNPIPE , originally the name of an See also:

instrument no longer in existence, and now the name of an See also:English See also:national See also:dance. The sailors' hornpipe, although the most See also:common, is by no means the only See also:form of the dance, for there is a See also:pretty tune known as the " See also:College Hornpipe," and other specimens of a similar See also:kind might be cited. The See also:composition of hornpipes flourished chiefly in the 18th See also:century, and even See also:Handel did not disdain to use the characteristic See also:rhythm. The hornpipe may be written in -t or in common See also:time, and is always of a lively nature.

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