The Georgia Grenadier’s March
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Georgia Grenadiers" is an American march in G Major. The parts ae played AABB.<br> Part A has 8 measures and part B has 12 measures.<br> Several American musicians' period music manuscript collections contained the tune,<br> including those of flute player John Hoff (1776-1818), flute player Henry Beck and fifer<br> Seth Johnson (Woburn, Massachusetts, 1807-c. 1840). <br> The Georgia Grenadiers was an American militia company formed in 1772 by Samuel Elbert<br> to help protect the Georgia colony's frontier from Native American incursions.<br> A few years after the Colonial-era Georgia Grenadiers was formed, music teacher and<br> composer James Alexander wrote a march for the company called "The Georgia Grenadiers"<br> and had it published by Hall and Sellers in Philadelphia in 1776.<br> Alexander was born in Scotland in 1749 and emigrated to Savannah around 1775, where he<br> initially was intensely pro-American. He joined Elbert's militia and rose to the rank of<br> Captain.<br> Alexander may have tried to walk a line between Royalist and Rebels in wartime Georgia<br> during the American Revolution. At the conclusion of hostilities in 1782 Alexander<br> was forced to flee to Canada, although he was later exonerated.<br> The march became relatively popular and even found its way into British martial tradition. <br> It was printed in<br> Aird's Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3 (1788),<br> Willig's The Compleat Tutor for the Fife (1805) and<br> Moon's Musick of the Fifes and Drums, Vol 2: Slow Marches (1977). <br>
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