Annotation:Vulcan's March

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VULCAN'S MARCH. Scottish, March (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Glasgow publisher James Aird notes that the tune was "Composed by the Countess of Balcarres." The Countess of Balcarres in Aird's time was Elizabeth Dalrymple (1759-1816), who married Elizabeth Dalrymple Lindsay (1759-1816) was the Countess of Balcarres in Fife, a patroness of musicians in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, and an accomplished keyboard player. Two of her compositions, "Lady Eliza Lindsay" and "Lady Eliza Lindsay's Minuet", hornpipe and minuet, were named for her ten-year-old daughter, and appear in John Watlen's 1791 collection of Celebrated Circus Tunes. She married General Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres, in 1780 in London.

The march also appears in J. Watlen's A Collection of Celebrated Marches & Quick Steps (London, 1798, p. 3). "Vulcan’s Forge" is meant to be a companion piece, printed by both Watlen (1791) and Aird (1796).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1796; No. 119, p. 47. Watlen (The Celebrated Circus Tunes), 1791; p. 21.

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