Band of Freemen

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Theme code Index	6663 5551H
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Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm	March/Marche
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History	USA(Mid Atlantic)
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Samuel Bayard
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife
Tune and/or Page number	No. 287, p. 241
Year of publication/Date of MS	1981
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BAND OF FREEMEN. American, March (4/4 time). USA, Pa. D Major. Standard. AB. From the Pennsylvania fifing tradition. The title comes from a song called "The Old Granite State," popularized in the early 1800's by the Hutchinson family of singers, and which had a repeated chorus-line of "We're a band of freeman." The tune was used for several spirituals and camp-meeting songs, especially by the Millerites. Bayard (1981) "emphatically" disputes Winston Wilkinson's assertion that the tune is the air or the Irish reel "Take Her Out and Air Her." He also thinks that the tune may possibly be a derivative of a Scots march by Oswald, "The Tulip."

Source for notated version: fifer Hiram Horner (Western Pa., 1944) [Bayard].

Printed source: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 287, pg. 241.

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