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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.
