Annotation:Queen's March--Louth

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QUEEN’S MARCH—LOUTH. AKA - "The Queen's March." AKA and see "Queen's Grand March." English, March (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC’CC’AABB. The tune was printed as early as 1789 in Edinburgh in David Sime's Select Collection of Favorite Marches, Airs &c., and M. Miller's Twelve Military Marches (six Slow and Six Quick), published in London by the firm of Longman and Broderip in 1795. As "Queen's Grand March" it was printed in 1803 by Glasgow musician James Aird. "The Queen's March" appears in several musicians' manuscript collections on both sides of the Atlantic, including the English collections of Shropshire musician Joshua Gibbons (originally set the tune in the key of ‘F’ major), Rev. R. Harrison (Cumbria, c. 1815), and J. Jones (North Shropshire, 1801); and the Irish ms. of fifer John Miller (Strabane, Londonderry, 1798). In North America it can be found in the 1788 manuscript of flute player Ensign Thomas Molyneaux (Shelburne, Nova Scotia). There are some general similarities to publisher John Walsh's earlier "Kiss Quick Mother's a-Coming."

Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].

Printed sources: Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; No. 138, p. 77.

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