Annotation:Kentish March
X:1 T:Kentish March M:C L:1/8 Q:"Slow" R:March B:James Aird – Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3 (Glasgow, 1788, No. 549, p. 209) N:”Humbly dedicated to the Volunteers and Defensive Bands of Great Britain and Ireland” Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G D/E/F|G2 g>g g2 B/c/d|E2 G>G G2 A>B|c>de>f g>dcB|A>GA>B A2 (D/E/F)| G2G>G G2 (B/c/d)|E2 G>G G2 g/f/e|d2 (e/d/)c B2 (c/B/)A|G2 GG G2:| |:Bc|d2 B/c/d G2 (3gfg|e2 d>d d2 (3GBd|c2 (3DAc B2 (3gdB|A>GA>B A2 (D/E/F)| G2 G>G G2 (B/c/d)|E2G>G G2 (g/f/e)|d2 (e/d/)c B2 (c/B/)A|G2 GG G2:|]
KENTISH MARCH. English, March (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The march was originally published in James Oswald's Fifty-Five Marches for the Militia, published in London in 1759. It was also published in Longman, Lukey & Co.'s A Fourth Collection of Twenty Four Favorite Marches In 5 Parts (London, 1770), and, in America, in Thomas Ball's Gentleman's Amusement Book 1 (1815, p. 28).
"Kentish March" is also contained in the music manuscript collections of flute player William Killey (Jurby, Isle of Mann, mid-19th centy.) and Lionel Winship (Wark, Northumberland, 1833).
