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'''GENERAL [1], THE'''. American, March. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. This tune is a fife and drum air used by soldiers during the American Revolution as a signal for camp duties and military | '''GENERAL [1], THE'''. American, March. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. This tune is a fife and drum air used by soldiers during the American Revolution as a signal for camp duties and military maneuvers. The march was also entered into the c. 1776-1778 music copybook of fifer Thomas Nixon Jr. [http://www.framinghamhistory.org/framinghamhistory/Default/exhibit4/e40082b.htm] (1762-1842), of Framingham, Connecticut. Nixon was a thirteen-year-old who accompanied his father to the battles of Lexington and Concord, and who served in the Continental army in engagements in and around New York until 1780, after which he returned home to build a house in Framingham. The copybook appears to have started by another musician, Joseph Long, and to have come into Nixon’s possession. | ||
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GENERAL [1], THE. American, March. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. This tune is a fife and drum air used by soldiers during the American Revolution as a signal for camp duties and military maneuvers. The march was also entered into the c. 1776-1778 music copybook of fifer Thomas Nixon Jr. [1] (1762-1842), of Framingham, Connecticut. Nixon was a thirteen-year-old who accompanied his father to the battles of Lexington and Concord, and who served in the Continental army in engagements in and around New York until 1780, after which he returned home to build a house in Framingham. The copybook appears to have started by another musician, Joseph Long, and to have come into Nixon’s possession.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Camus (Military Music of the American Revolution), 1976; Example 2, p. 86.
Recorded sources: