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"Governor King's March" is an American march in 4/4 time and D major. The parts are
played AB.
It was known in southwestern Pennsylvania. Samuel Bayard relates that it is an old fifer's tune. It also appears in Boston publisher Elias Howe's Diamond School for the Violin (1861). A related version appears in Bayard's Hill Country Tunes (1944) as "The Old Man and Old Woman Scoldin'" modified to have a slow first part and a quick second part. It was collected from Hiram Horner (a fifer from Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pa.) in 1944 by Samuel Bayard. It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981) and Howe's Diamond School For the Violin (1861). |