'''BEDFORDSHIRE MARCH.''' English, March (4/4 time). England, Yorkshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The name Bedford is an Old English name derived from a man's name, Bedda, who was associated with a ford in a river (Matthews, 1972). The march can be found in several fife and oboe tutors and musicians' manuscripts of the latter 18th century, beginning with Longman, Lukey & Co. '''Compleat Instructions for the Fife''' (London 1770), Charles and Samuel Thompson's '''Compleat Tutor for the Fife''' (London, 1770), Longman & Broderip's '''Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife''' (London, 1780), and others.
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''Source for notated version:'' a MS by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].
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