Annotation:Neptune (1)

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NEPTUNE. American, March (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A quickmarch for the fife. Printed versions can be found in James Hulbert's A Variety of Marches (1803), and The Complete Fifer's Museum (Northampton and Greenfield, Mass., 1807 and 1811). The march was also entered into the c. 1776-1778 music copybook of fifer Thomas Nixon Jr. [1] (1762-1842), of Framingham, Connecticut. Nixon was a thirteen-year-old who accompanied his father to the battles of Lexington and Concord, and who served in the Continental army in engagements in and around New York until 1780, after which he returned home to build a house in Framingham. The copybook appears to have started by another musician, Joseph Long, and to have come into Nixon’s possession.

There is also a 6/8 tune called "Neptune" in John Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1719), but it is a different melody.

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