Bedfordshire March

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BEDFORDSHIRE MARCH. English, March (4/4 time). England, Yorkshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The name Bedford is an Old English name derived from a man's name, Bedda, who was associated with a ford in a river (Matthews, 1972). The march can be found in several fife and oboe tutors and musicians' manuscripts of the latter 18th century, beginning with Longman, Lukey & Co. Compleat Instructions for the Fife (London 1770), Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Tutor for the Fife (London, 1770), Longman & Broderip's Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife (London, 1780), and others. Source for notated version: a MS by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle]. Printed source: Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 107, pg. 60.

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