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|f_annotation='''4th OF JULY.''' Scottish, March (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "4th of July" is a march composed by Edinburgh fiddler-composer and bandleader [[Robert Mackintosh]] (c. 1745-1808), who included it in his '''Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels''' (c. 1804). It is located in that volume on a couple of pages devoted to marches that includes "Yankie Doodle" (p. 37), so there seems little doubt that the march was named for the American holiday. | |f_annotation='''4th OF JULY.''' Scottish, March (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "4th of July" is a march composed by Edinburgh fiddler-composer and bandleader [[biography:Robert Mackintosh]] (c. 1745-1808), who included it in his '''Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels''' (c. 1804). It is located in that volume on a couple of pages devoted to marches that includes "Yankie Doodle" (p. 37), so there seems little doubt that the march was named for the American holiday. | ||
|f_printed_sources=<span>Robert Mackintosh ('''A Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels, also some Famous old Reels'''), c. 1804; p. 36.</span><span></span> | |f_printed_sources=<span>Robert Mackintosh ('''A Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels, also some Famous old Reels'''), c. 1804; p. 36.</span><span></span> | ||
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4th OF JULY. Scottish, March (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "4th of July" is a march composed by Edinburgh fiddler-composer and bandleader biography:Robert Mackintosh (c. 1745-1808), who included it in his Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels (c. 1804). It is located in that volume on a couple of pages devoted to marches that includes "Yankie Doodle" (p. 37), so there seems little doubt that the march was named for the American holiday.
