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|f_country=United States
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'''CITY GUARDS'''. Related to "Rustic Reel [1]," "Libby Prison Quickstep," "First Western Change," and "O Dear Mother My Toes Are Sore [1]" in the first strain. The City Guards, at least in Edinburgh, were the precursors to the official police force, established around 1696. They were abolished in that city in November, 1817, after which the police assumed all their remaining duties. The populace, at least in the latter years, called them "The Toon Rottens," according to Henry Cockburn (1779-1854), writing in his posthumous memoir '''Memorials of His Time''' (1856):  
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''The police has made them useless; but I wish they had been perpetuated, though it''
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''had been only as curiosities. Their number was liable to be increased or diminished ''
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''according to circumstances. At this period they amounted, I conjecture, to about 200,''
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''regimented like ordinary soldiers. They were all old, hard-featured, red-nosed veterans;''
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''regiment, they thought themselves fortunate if they got into this fragment of our old''
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''burgher militia, where the pay was better than nothing, and the discipline not quite''
''consistent with whisky, while the service was limited to keeping the peace within the''
''city. Naturally disliked by the people they were always asserting their dignity by testy''
impatient anger. This excited the mischief and the hostility of the boys, by whom their
small remains of temper were intolerably tried; and between the two there never ceased
to be a cordial and diverting war. Their uniform was a red coat turned up with blue, a
red waistcoat, red breeches, long black gaiters, white belts, and large cocked hats bound
with white worsted ribbon. They had muskets and bayonets, but rarely used them; for
their peculiar weapon was the old genuine Lochaber axe-a delightful implement. One
saw Bannockburn in it. One of these stern half-dotard warriors used to sit at each side
of the prisoners at the bar of the Court of Justiciary as guard; with his huge hat on his
old battered head, and his drawn bayonet in his large gnarled hand. They sat so immovably,
and looked so severe, with their rugged weather-beaten visages, and hard muscular trunks,
that they were no unfit emblems of the janitors of the region to which those they guarded
were so often consigned. The disappearance of these picturesque old fellows was a great loss.  (pp. 322-323)
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T:City Guards Quickstep [1]
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R:Quickstep March
S:M.E. Eames music manuscript collection (1859, p. 75)
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 Theme code Index    1H1H2H3H 1H1H 2H1H
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Military
 Meter/Rhythm    March/Marche
 Key/Tonic of    D
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    6/8
 History    
 Structure    ABCD
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:M.E. Eames
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:M.E. Eames music manuscript collection
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 75
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1859
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
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City Guards (1): Annotations

X:1 T:City Guards Quickstep [1] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Quickstep March S:M.E. Eames music manuscript collection (1859, p. 75) N:Drone 'D' note for first six measure of 3rd strain Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D A|d2A dcd|ede faf|d2A dcd|efe dcB| d2A dcd|ede faf|A2d e2d|cBc d2!fermata!|| e|eee f2e|ccc d2c|AAA B2A|G3 F2d| eee f2e|ccc d2c|AAA B2A|G3 F2|| D|FFF FFF|FFF FFF|GGG GGG|GGG GGG| AAA AAA|AAA AAA|F2G F2G|A2d A2|| d|fff fff|fff f2B|dcB dcB|c2 F F2d| fff fff|fff f2B|dcB dcB|f3 f2!D.C.!||


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