127 - Hornpipe #4
For contrast, here’s a hornpipe composed about a month before the one from yesterday. Here the accompaniment is 100% the default from easyABC (except for the last measure).
This is probably my favorite from the set of hornpipes. Don’t know whether or not I’ll post any more of them.
Possibly - consider when I composed this in 2012 I wasn’t thinking anybody would see it besides me, plus, it never occurred to me 2/4 would be any more difficult for someone to read than 2/2 or 4/4. Then again, I had a friend once who also had a doctorate in music and was an accomplished guitarist tell me he could not read my score in 2/1 though it was clearly subdivided. He also couldn’t read an 8va octave sign. The score had to be changed so all his notes perched atop racks of ledger lines.
Is there any reason why you notated that in 2/4 rather than the 4/4 that most hornpipes are written in? I find it far harder to read tunes that have semiquavers - it takes more effort to distinguish a quaver from a semiquaver than distinguishing a crotchet from a quaver.