Harvest Home

The alternate titles of "Harvest Home" trace its travels: in Ohio it circulated as the "Cincinnati Hornpipe," and elsewhere as the "Cork Hornpipe." The earliest printed setting appears in Manson and Hamilton's Universal Tune Book (vol. 2, 1846), though the melody is older — it sits in northern English manuscripts of the 1820s and '30s, among them the Browne family's Troutbeck collection in Cumbria. It had reached North America by the 1840s, copied untitled into the music books of the Long Island painter and fiddler William Sidney Mount, and took particular hold in New England, New York, and Ohio.