Governor King's March
Notation:
Standard Notation
ABC Notation
Mandolin Tablature
Violin Tablature
traditional
PDF Files:
--- choose file type ---
Standard Notation
Mandolin Tablature
Violin Tablature
Tune Sheet
American
Play
MIDI
No audio
available
Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Governor King's March" is an American march in 4/4 time and D major. The parts are<br> played AB.<br> It was known in southwestern Pennsylvania.<br> Samuel Bayard relates that it is an old fifer's tune. It also appears in Boston publisher<br> Elias Howe's Diamond School for the Violin (1861).<br> A related version appears in Bayard's Hill Country Tunes (1944) as "The Old Man and Old<br> Woman Scoldin'" modified to have a slow first part and a quick second part.<br> It was collected from Hiram Horner (a fifer from Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pa.)<br> in 1944 by Samuel Bayard.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981) and<br> Howe's Diamond School For the Violin (1861).<br>
Click
here
for a full page view.