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|f_annotation='''TEMPEST OF WAR, THE.''' American, March (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Tempest of War" appears in several American musician's manuscripts of the late 18th and early 19th century, including the copybooks of Thomas Nixon (c. 1776-78), John Hoff (c. 1797), and Henry Beck (1786). It was also published in Norris & Sawyer's '''Village Fifer''' (Exeter, N.H., 1808) and Alvan Robinson's '''Massachusetts Collection of Martial Musick''' (Hollowell, ME, 1818). Beck and Hoff were flute players, while Nixon was a fifer, and the two publications contain martial music. The tune was in use at least through the American Civil War and was in the music book of Union Army fifer Luther Whiting Mason (from Ohio), who, at age 46 in 1864, was older than most army musicians (many of whom were number of boys and adolescents twelve to sixteen). Mason, who became the Chief Fifer for the 138th Regiment, sewed together sections of publications, including a fife tutorial and sixty one fife tunes from pages of '''Massachusetts Collection''', an older martial collection from the first half of the 19th century. "Tempest of War" was one of the marches from the '''Massachusetts Collection'''. | |f_annotation='''TEMPEST OF WAR, THE.''' American, March (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Tempest of War" appears in several American musician's manuscripts of the late 18th and early 19th century, including the copybooks of Thomas Nixon (c. 1776-78), John Hoff (c. 1797), and Henry Beck (1786). It was also published in Norris & Sawyer's '''Village Fifer''' (Exeter, N.H., 1808) and Alvan Robinson's '''Massachusetts Collection of Martial Musick''' (Hollowell, ME, 1818). Beck and Hoff were flute players, while Nixon was a fifer, and the two publications contain martial music. The tune was in use at least through the American Civil War and was in the music book of Union Army fifer Luther Whiting Mason (from Ohio), who, at age 46 in 1864, was older than most army musicians (many of whom were number of boys and adolescents twelve to sixteen). Mason, who became the Chief Fifer for the 138th Regiment, sewed together sections of publications, including a fife tutorial and sixty one fife tunes from pages of '''Massachusetts Collection''', an older martial collection from the first half of the 19th century. "Tempest of War" was one of the marches from the '''Massachusetts Collection'''<ref>Howe, S. (1991). "The Tempest of War": Luther Whiting Mason in the American Civil War. The Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education, 12(2), 100-112. Retrieved July 9, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40214793 </fef>. | ||
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X: 1 T:Tempest of War,The. BC.04 M:C| L:1/8 Q:1/2=75 S:Benjamin Cooke MS.circa 1770, F.Kidson Coll. R:.March O:England A:Uncertain, probably northern N:Is this a bad translation of "Tempesta Di Mare"(Storm at Sea) Opus 8 & N:Opus 10. By Vivaldi ? Anybody know the tune?CGP. Z:vmp.John Bagnall K:G GA|B2 Bc d2 cB|A2 AB c2 BA|G2 GA B2 AG|D2 DD D2:|! |:Bc|d2 ((3gfe) d2 AB|c2 ((3edc) B3 c|BdBG AcAF|G2 GG G2:|
TEMPEST OF WAR, THE. American, March (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Tempest of War" appears in several American musician's manuscripts of the late 18th and early 19th century, including the copybooks of Thomas Nixon (c. 1776-78), John Hoff (c. 1797), and Henry Beck (1786). It was also published in Norris & Sawyer's Village Fifer (Exeter, N.H., 1808) and Alvan Robinson's Massachusetts Collection of Martial Musick (Hollowell, ME, 1818). Beck and Hoff were flute players, while Nixon was a fifer, and the two publications contain martial music. The tune was in use at least through the American Civil War and was in the music book of Union Army fifer Luther Whiting Mason (from Ohio), who, at age 46 in 1864, was older than most army musicians (many of whom were number of boys and adolescents twelve to sixteen). Mason, who became the Chief Fifer for the 138th Regiment, sewed together sections of publications, including a fife tutorial and sixty one fife tunes from pages of Massachusetts Collection, an older martial collection from the first half of the 19th century. "Tempest of War" was one of the marches from the Massachusetts Collection<ref>Howe, S. (1991). "The Tempest of War": Luther Whiting Mason in the American Civil War. The Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education, 12(2), 100-112. Retrieved July 9, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40214793 </fef>.
