Annotation:Hull's Fourth Dragoon March

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 HULL'S FOURTH DRAGOON MARCH. AKA and see "Fourth Dragoon's Regimental March." English, March (4/4 time). England, Yorkshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCD. There is a town called Hull (formerly Kingston-on-Hull) in Yorkshire which takes its name from the adjacent river, however, the title refers not to the town but to the composer, one E. Hull (whose quick and slow marches were advertised in 1826 as being played at Vauxhall Gardens). See note for "Talk:Fourth Dragoon's Regimental March" for more on this tune.  Source for notated version: a MS collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].  Printed sources: Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 106, p. 60.  Recorded sources:

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