| Title | Cooper's Hornpipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternate titles | The Exciseman's Hornpipe Fox in the Dumps Swan's Hornpipe | |||
| Composer | Traditional Scottish | |||
| Instrumentation | Flute solo |     | ||
| Key | D major | |||
| Range | D4–A5 | |||
| Time signature | 4/4 | |||
| Tempo | 132 BPM | |||
| Performance time | 1:00 | |||
| Difficulty level | easy | |||
| Download printable score | PDF Sheet Music (46 kB) (preview) | |||
| Download audio tracks | MIDI (change tempo/key) MP3 (483 kB) | |||
| Date added | 2016-02-26 | |||
| Last updated | 2016-02-26 | |||
| Download popularity index |   0.6 (below average) | |||
| Categories |
Celtic Music, Hornpipes, Traditional/Folk | |||
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This Scottish tune appears twice in Northumbrian musician William Vickers's 1770 manuscript, once as “Fox in the Dumps” and once as “Exciseman's Hornpipe”. The melody later appeared in a number of 19th-century English manuscripts, sometimes under the title “Swan's Hornpipe”.
