Bedfordshire March

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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	March/Marche
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Longman & Broderip's Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife
Tune and/or Page number
Year of publication/Date of MS	1780
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Year recorded
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BEDFORDSHIRE MARCH. English, March (4/4 time). England, Yorkshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The name Bedford is an Old English name derived from a man's name, Bedda, who was associated with a ford in a river (Matthews, 1972). The march can be found in Longman & Broderip's Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife (London, 1780).

Source for notated version: a MS by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].

Printed source: Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 107, pg. 60.

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