Bonaparte's Grand March
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Bonaparte's Grand March", also known as "Bonaparte's March", "The Cossack's March",<br> "Hanoverian March" and "Napoleon's March" is a Scottish, English, Irish march in<br> 4/4 time and D Major. The parts are played ABC.<br> Most titles for this march reference (sometimes with different spellings) Napoleon Bonaparte.<br> The tune appears in numerous English fiddlers' manuscripts of the 19th century:<br> John Moore of Ironbridge, Shropshire ("Hanoverian March"),<br> J. Winter of Stanton, Gloucestershire (1833),<br> Henry Stables of Waithwaite, Cumbria, (1881),<br> William Irwin of Langdale, Cumbria (1838) and<br> John Clare of Helpstone, Northants (c. 1820) as (see "Napoleon's March").<br> O'Neill (1922) says<br> "In the heyday of Bonaparte's renown, early in the nineteenth<br> century, many songs, marches, hornpipes etc. were named in his honor in Ireland. Most<br> of the tunes, being traditional, retain their popularity. It is not claimed that<br> "Bonaparte's Grand March" is an Irish composition. In fact we have no information<br> concerning its history or origin, but there can be no question as to its circulation<br> and popularity in Ireland in former times. Its rescue from the oblivion of faded<br> manuscript to the publicity of the printed page may endow this spirited march with<br> renewed vitality."<br> While the march probably does not have an Irish provenance, it<br> was also popular in that country. County Cork cleric, collector and uilleann piper<br> James Goodman and Oriel region, south Ulster, curate and fiddler<br> Rev. Luke Donnellan both entered the tune in their music manuscript collections<br> as "The Cossack's March".<br> It was printed in Kerr's Merry Melodies vol. 4 (c. 1880's) (as "Buonoparte's March") and<br> O'Neill's Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody (1922).<br> It was recorded by<br> Stephen Baldwin on Here's One You'll Like, I Think (2005) and<br> Bernard O'Sullivan & Tommy McMahon on Clare Concertinas (1975).<br>
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