Bunker Hill (1)

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Theme code Index	1H1H5H3H 2H2H3H1H
Also known as	Dead March, 'A' Drag, Harrison City
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Military
Meter/Rhythm	March/Marche
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History	USA(Mid Atlantic)
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Samuel Bayard
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife
Tune and/or Page number	No. 322A, p. 281
Year of publication/Date of MS	1981
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BUNKER HILL [1]. AKA and see "Dead March," "A Drag," "Harrison City." American, Quickstep (2/4 time). Southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Bayard (1981) identifies this tune as adapted from a work of classical music, namely von Weber's "Huntsman's Chorus" from the third act of his opera Der Freishutz. The tune entered folk tradition, and kept the title "Huntsman's/Huntsmen's/Hunter's Chorus" in England. It was well-known as a martial tune by Pennsylvania fifers who at some point named it after the Revolutionary War battle, and its operatic origins and name were forgotten.

Source for notated version: a manuscript by fifer Thomase Hoge (Greene County, Pa., 1944) [Bayard].

Printed source: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 322A, p. 281.