The Dorsetshire March
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Dorsetshire March", also known as "Dorchester March", "Dorcestershire March",<br> "Captain Reid's Delight" or "The Third Buffs March." is an English and Scottish march<br> in D Major. The parts are played AB (Huntington, Miller) or AABB (Knowles, Sumner).<br> The name Dorset stems from the Latin term Dornsaete, signifying<br> the people whom made their homes around the Roman city of Dorchester).<br> Early printings of the melody appear in the Gillespie Manuscript (Perth, Scotland, 1768)<br> a volume entitled "A Collection of the Best and Most Favourite Tunes for the Violin"<br> (appears as "Dorchester March"). This was followed by numerous printings in London music<br> publications around the year 1770, particularly fife and flute tutors and march<br> collections. The march was common in the Revolutionary War period in the British army and<br> was in use for many decades afterwards.<br> It also appeared in the manuscript of John Greenwood who was fife major (at age 15) of the<br> 15th Massachusetts regiment in 1775 and 1776.<br> The melody was also very popular in America in the Revolutionary and post-war eras and<br> was included in a number of musician's copybooks.<br> It was printed in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 6 (1803),<br> Huntington's William Litten's (1977) (appears as "Dorchester March"),<br> Johnson's A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter 18th<br> Century (1998),<br> Knowles' Northern Frisk (1988),<br> Miller's Fiddler's Throne (2004),<br> Sumner's Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript (1997),<br> Thompson's The Compleat Tutor for the Fife (1760) and<br> Moon's Musick of the Fifes and Drums, Vol 2: Slow Marches (1977). <br>
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