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Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region
England
Genre/Style
English
Meter/Rhythm
March/Marche
Key/Tonic of
G
Accidental
1 sharp
Mode
Ionian (Major)
Time signature
4/4
History
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BIRMINGHAM MARCH, THE. English, March. England, Shropshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The 'B' part of the tune is the same as the 'B' part for the Adderbury stick dance tune "Lads a Buncham." The name Birmingham (Warwickshire) derives from the Anglo-Saxon place-name 'Beorma's ham', meaning 'the homestead of Beorma'.
Source for notated version: a c. 1837-1840 MS by Shropshire musician John Moore [Ashman].
Printed source: Ashman (The Ironbridge Hornpipe), 1991; No. 91a, p. 36.
