The Marquis of Granby's March
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Marquis of Granby's March", also known as "1st Troop of Horse Grenadier's March" or<br> "Lord Carmarthen's March" is an English air and march in 4/4 time and D Major.<br> The parts are played AABB. The parts are short, just four measures in each.<br> A very popular fife march that appears in a great many music tutors, country dance<br> collections and musicians' manuscripts on both sides of the Atlantic from just prior<br> to the American War of Independence through beginning of the 19th century.<br> The Marquis, John Manners (1721-1770), was "a good man at the bottle" whose image once<br> graced no less that eighteen London public-houses and who can still be seen on sign-boards<br> for inns, partly due to his personal bravery and partly to the baldness of his head.<br> Legend has it that he set the best of his soldiers up as innkeepers when they retired<br> from service. Granby led one of the great cavalry charges of British history on<br> July 31, 1760 at Warburg, where he led 22 squadrons against the French, first driving<br> their horse form the field and then routing their infantry. He was also a hero of the<br> French and Indian War in the American Colonies (and thus this tune appears in a number of<br> late 18th century American music manuscripts and publications). The Marquis was made<br> commander-in-chief of the British Army in 1766 but was the subject of bitter political<br> attacks and, in declining health, he resigned in 1770 and gave up most of his public<br> offices. He died in debt.<br> Curiously, the march was printed twice in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Tutor<br> for the Fife (1760), once as "Marquis of Granby's March" (p. 19) and again as "Lord<br> Carmarthen's March" (p. 31). <br> It was printed in<br> Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Tutor for the Fife (1770),<br> Thompson's Thirty Favorite Marches, Book 2 (1770),<br> Longman, Lukey & Co.'s Compleat Instructions for the Fife (1770),<br> Johnson's A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter<br> 18th Century (1998),<br> Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs, vol. 1 (1782),<br> Keller's Giles Gibbs Jr. His Book for the Fife...1777 (1974),<br> Keller's Fiddle Tunes from the American Revolution (1992),<br> Knowles's Northern Frisk (1988),<br> Winstock's Songs and Music of the Redcoats (1970)<br> and Moon's Musick of the Fifes and Drums, Vol 2: Slow Marches (1977).<br>
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