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Annotation:Cossack's March (The)
X:1 T:Cossack March, The M:C| L:1/8 R:March B:James Goodman music manuscript collection, Book 4 (p. 155, B:mid-19th century, County Cork) F: http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-four#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=158&z=-312.7514%2C5017.8673%2C7678.5735%2C2365.496 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D AB/c/|d2dd d2 A/B/c/d/|e2 ee e2 de|f2 ef g2 fg|e2 ee e2 (3ABA| (3ded (3ABA (3FAF (3ABA|(3ded (3ABA (3FAF (3ABA|d2 df edef|d2 dd d2z2| Se>d (3cdB ABcA|dcde defd|e>d (3cdc ABcA|dcde defd| B2 gg gb a/g/f/e/|A2 ff fafd|e2 ff edef|d2 dd d2z2!fine!|| d/e/f/g/|a2 a2 b2b2|a4g f2a2|g2g2 fagf|e2 ee e3f|a2 g/f/e/d/ c2 z2| A/B/c/d/ a2f2d3f|f2a2 g/f/e/d/| a2 aa a3fS||
COSSACK(S) MARCH, THE. AKA and see "Buonaparte's March," "Bonaparte's Grand March (1)," "Bonaparte's March (2)," "Hanoverian March," "Napoleon's March," "Prince Albert's March (2)." Irish (?), March (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCC. "Cossack's March" is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster[1], and also in Book 4 (p. 155) of the mid-19th century collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist). Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor identified the composer of the march as Stephen Glover (1813-1870), and although it appears that Glover did compose a tune by that title, this particular "Cossack's March" may predate him (in view of the alternate title references to Napoleon Bonaparte). See note for "annotation:Bonaparte's Grand March (1)" for more.
- ↑ Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.
