Annotation:Bologna's March

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BOLOGNA'S MARCH. AKA and see "Favorite Slow March (A)," "Hornsby's March." Scottish (?), March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was first published by John Watlen in his Celebrated Circus Tunes (Edinburgh, 1791). It was reprinted five years later by Glasgow publisher James Aird, along with several other tunes from Watlen's collection, without credit to the source. The march was included in the music manuscript collections of John Rook (1840, Waverton, Cumbria) as "Favorite Slow March (A)," and Joshua Gibbons (1823, Tealby, Lincolnshire) as "Hornsby's March."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1796; No. 80, p. 33. Watlen (The Celebrated Circus Tunes), 1791; p. 2.

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