HORNPIPE  , originally the name of an See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument no longer in existence, and now the name of an See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• DANCE
• DANCE (Fr. danse; of obscure origin, connected with Old High Ger. danson, to stretch)

dance . The sailors' hornpipe, although the most See also:

• COMMON

common, is by no means the only See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the dance, for there is a See also:

• PRETTY

pretty tune known as the " See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College Hornpipe," and other specimens of a similar See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind might be cited . The See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition of hornpipes flourished chiefly in the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and even See also:

• HANDEL, GEORGE FREDERICK (1685–1759)

Handel did not disdain to use the characteristic See also:

• RHYTHM (Greek pvBµds, from bap, to flow)

rhythm . The hornpipe may be written in -t or in common See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and is always of a lively nature .