Annotation:Stonehaven Volunteers March (The)
X:1 T:Stonehaven Volunteers March, The C:Mr. Barclay Dun (Aberdeen) M:C L:1/8 R:March B: John Morison - A Collection of New Strathspey Reels, with a few favourite Marches (Edinburgh, c. 1797, No. 59) N:Organist and fiddler Morison (1772-1848) was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the N:easternmost point in Scotland, on the North Sea. Alburger notes that failing fortunes N:forced him to diversify: he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery. F:https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_New_Strathspey_Reels_wit/Vo-EymUbJkYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22john+morison%22+%22new+strathspey+reels%22%C2%A0&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover K:C g/f/e/d/|c2 G>G E2 G>G|c2 c/d/e/f/ [c2e2g2][c2f2a2]|g2 e/f/g fe dc|B2 d>d d/e/f/g/- g/f/e/d/| c2 G>G E2 G>G|c2 c/d/e/f/ [c2e2g2][c2f2a2]|g<e d>e g>f e>d|[E2g2c2] [EGc]>[EGc] [E2G2c2]:| |:g/a/b|(c’b) .a.g c’3f|(ag) fe f3a|Ff/g/ af Ee/f/ ge|f2 d>d d/e/f/g/ g/f/e/d/| c2 G>G E2 G>G|c2 c/d/e/f/ [c2e2g2][c2f2a2]|g/f/e/f/ g/f/e/d/ T[E2G2c2][D2F2B2]|{AB}[E2G2c2] [EGc][EGc] [E2G2c2]:|]
STONEHAVEN VOLUNTEERS MARCH, THE. Scottish, March (whole time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Stonehaven Volunteers March" was composed by Barclay Dun of Aberdeen, and is one of two tunes attributed to other composers in the c. 1797 collection of John Morison (1772-1848), a fiddler and, for a time, organist at St. Peter's Chapel, Peterhead. Morison was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point of Scotland and a port town on the North Sea. He had a small fiddle band for playing dances, but he supported himself, as many musicians did, with diversification. Alburger notes he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery; he also tuned pianos and organs and copied out music, but eventually he went bankrupt (at least once). Morison published two collections; the first around 1797 and the second in 1815.
The Stonehaven Volunteers, Aberdeenshire, were a militia unit raised in the last decade of the 18th century for home defense in response to the perceived threat of invasion by France, with whom Britain was at war.
