Annotation:Count Brown's March
X:1 T:Count Brown’s March M:C| L:1/8 R:March Q:”Allegro” B: Robert Bremner – Collection of Airs and Marches for Two Violins or German Flutes (c. 1756-61; No. 35, pp. 42-43) F: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104412887 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D V:1 (A/B/c)|d2d2d2d2|dcde dede|f2f2f2f2|fefg fgfg|a2a2a2 ba| g2g2g2 ag|Tf2 ed g2f2|{f}e6::cd|e2e2e2f2|edcB A2 (A/B/4c/4d/4e/4f/4g/4)|a2a2a2b2| agfe d2 (ag)|f2e2 d2 (ag)|(3fgf (3efe d2 (ag)|fgab f2Te2|d6:||:(A/B/c)| dAFA dAFA|dcde dAFA|fdAd fdAd|fefg fdAd|a2a2 aAAa| g2g2 gAAg|f2 ed fagf|{f}e6::ef|edcB edcB|cBA^G A2 fg| aAAa gAAg|f2e2d2 ag|(3fgf (3efe d2 AG|(3FGF (3EFE D2 ag|fgab f2Te2|d6:| V:2 z2|z8|z4 a2 A/B/c|d2d2d2d2|dcde dede|f2f2f2 gf| e2e2e2fe|d4 e2d2|A6::AB c2c2c2d2 cBA^G A2A2|f2f2f2g2| fedc d2fe|(3ded (3ABA F2 fe|d2A2F2 fe|d2d2d2Tc2|d6:|z2| z8|z4 z2 (A/B/c)|dAFA dAFA|dcde dAFA|fAAf f2f2| eAAe e2e2|d2AF Dfed|A6::cd|cBA^G cBA^G|edcB A2 de| f2f2 e2e2|(3ded (3ABA F2 fe|d2A2 F2 FE|D2[A,2A2]D2fe|d2d2d2Tc2|d6:| V:3 clef = bass z2|D,DCB, A,G,F,E,|D,4 z4|D,A,DC DF,G,A,|D,4 z4|DD,D, D,2 z2| A,2A,,A,, A,,2 z2|D,4G,,4|A,,6::z2|A,,2 A,^G, A,A,F,D,|E,2E,,2A,,2z2|D,2DC DDB,G,| A,2A,,2D,2z2|D,2C,2D,2A,,2|D,2C,2D,2z2|D,2G,2A,2A,,2|D,6:|z2| D,8-|D,4z4|D,8-|D,4z4|D,4D,4| A,4A,,4|D,6G,,2|A,,6::z2|A,2E,2A,,2E,2|A,2E,2A,,2z2| D,4A,,4|D,2C,2D,2z2|D,2C,2D,2z2|D,2C,2D,2z2|D,2G,2A,2A,,2|D,6:|
COUNT BROWN'S MARCH. AKA and see "Bodmin Riding," "Grand Turk's March (1) (The)," "St. Ives Feast," "St. Ives Well Procession." English, Scottish; March. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in the Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768), but was printed prior to that date in the earliest known fife tutor published by Rutherford in London c. 1756. Subsequently it was often printed in martial music collections and tutors such as Robert Bremner's A Collection of Airs and Marches (London, 1761), Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Tutor for the Fife (London, 1770) and Thomas Skiller's Compleat Instructions for the Fife (London, 1780). In America it was printed in George Willig's Compleat Tutor for the Fife (Philadelphia, 1805), and by M. Holyoke (1800). It occasionally appears in fifers' and fiddlers' manuscripts on both sides of the Atlantic, including James Ballantine's 1770 music manuscript collection (Peeblesshire).
