Battle of the Nile (The)

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 Theme code Index    1H1H2H2H 3H3H5H1H
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 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    England
 Genre/Style    English
 Meter/Rhythm    Air/Lament/Listening Piece, March/Marche
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 Time signature    4/4
 History    
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 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Peter D. Sumner
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Lincolnshire Collections vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 84
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1997
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<abc float="left"> X: 1 T:Battle of the Nile,The.(primo) RH.428 R:march S:Rev.R.Harrison's MS,c1815,Cumbria O:England A:Temple Sowerby,Cumbria Z:vmp.Simon Wilson. Review PJH, 2008. M:C L:1/8 Q:2/4=80 K:D V:1 name="primo" A2|d3d e3e|f>ef>g a2d2|\ g2f>g e2d>d|e>dc>B A3A|! d3d e3e|f>ef>g a2b>a|\ gfed fedc|d2d'>d' d'2ff|! a2ff a3a|bagf g2e2|\ g2ee g3g|a>gf>e f>e dA/A/|! dddd e2ee|f>ef>g a2AA|\ dddd eeee|f>ef>g a2f2|! afaa bagf|e2gf e2AA|\ d3d e3e|f>ef>ga3e|! g2f>g e2d2|e>dc>B A>Bc>d|\ d3d e3e|f>ef>g a2b>a|! g>fe>d f>ed>c|d2d'>d' d'2|] </abc>
















BATTLE OF THE NILE, THE. English, Air or march (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody, a march but perhaps also a song air, commemorates Admiral Nelson's 1798 victory over the French fleet under Admiral François-Paul Brueys, anchored in one of the mouths of the Nile river. The battle was fought largely at night, unusual for the time, and resulted in an overwhelming victory for the British. Nelson was made Baron of the Nile as a consequence. It appears in numerous publications and musicians manuscripts on both sides of the Atlantic, dating to the beginning of the 19th century. Printed publications in which it appears include J. Ball's Gentleman's Amusement Book 3 (London, c. 1815, reprinted in 1830), Paff's Gentleman's Amusement No. 1 (New York, 1812), Oliver Shaws' For the Gentlemen (Dedham, Mass., 1807), and Edward Riley's Flute Melodies, vol. 2 (New York, 1817). The march also appears in the manuscript collections of Dexter Dean (Dedham, Mass., 1800), John Fife (Perthshire, begun in 1780), and Daniel Henry Huntington (Onondaga, N.Y., 1817).

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 source: Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 84.

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