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PRINCE RUPERT'S MARCH. AKA - "Prins Robbert Masco." English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). A Minor (Sharp). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Chappell): ABB (Sharp). The air can be found in manuscript form in Elizabeth Rogers' Virginal Book, and was published by John Playford in his English Dancing Master [1] (1650-1, and all subsequent editions, through the 18th and final edition of 1728), in Bellerophon (Gesangh der Zeeden, 1648, with words), and in blind recorder virtuoso Jacob van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lusthof (1649, as "Prins Robbert Masco"). Chappell (1858) points out the march resembles "British Grenadiers (The)," albeit in minor instead of major key.

Prince Rupert commanded the Royalists at the battle of Edgehill, in 1642. He died and was interred with great magnificence in Henry the Seventh's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, in 1682. He was a nephew of Charles I., and the discoverer of mezzotinto, the hint of which he is said to have taken from seeing a soldier scraping his rusty musket. The first mezzotinto print ever published was the work of his hands, and may be seen in the first edition of Evelyn's Scidptura.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barlow (The Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 81, p. 33. Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 1), 1859; p. 317. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 43 (a facsimile copy of the Playford original). Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1994; p. 46.

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-'''PRINCE RUPERT'S MARCH.''' AKA - "Prins Robbert Masco." English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). A Minor (Sharp). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Chappell): ABB (Sharp). The air can be found in manuscript form in '''Elizabeth Rogers' Virginal Book''', and was published by John Playford in his '''English Dancing Master''' [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play1065.htm] (1650-1), in '''Bellerophon''' (Gesangh der Zeeden, 1648, with words), and in blind recorder virtuoso Jacob van Eyck's '''Der Fluyten Lusthof''' (1649, as "Prins Robbert Masco").  Chappell (1858) points out the march resembles "[[British Grenadiers (The)]]," albeit in minor instead of major key.
+'''PRINCE RUPERT'S MARCH.''' AKA - "Prins Robbert Masco." English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). A Minor (Sharp). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Chappell): ABB (Sharp). The air can be found in manuscript form in '''Elizabeth Rogers' Virginal Book''', and was published by John Playford in his '''English Dancing Master''' [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play1065.htm] (1650-1, and all subsequent editions, through the 18th and final edition of 1728), in '''Bellerophon''' (Gesangh der Zeeden, 1648, with words), and in blind recorder virtuoso Jacob van Eyck's '''Der Fluyten Lusthof''' (1649, as "Prins Robbert Masco").  Chappell (1858) points out the march resembles "[[British Grenadiers (The)]]," albeit in minor instead of major key.
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