Annotation:Duke of Cumberland's March (1) (The)
X: 1 T:Duke of Cumberland's March [1], The M:C L:1/8 S:Benjamin Cooke MS, circa 1770, F. Kidson Coll. R:March O:England N:I don't suppose this was a particularly popular tune north of the N:border, where the Duke's army waged a campaign against the rebels N:noted, even by the standards of the time, for its savagery. CGP. Z:vmp.John Bagnall K:D F/G/ | A2 B2 A2 B2 | AGFE D2 d2 | c2 d2 e2 f2 | edcB A2 GF | B2 B2 .Bc.dB| A2 A2 A2 GF | G2 G2 AGFE | D2 D2 DGFE | D2 D2 D3 :| |:f | edcd e2 f2 | edcB A2 f2 | edcd e2 f2 | edcB A2 de | f2 eg f2 eg | f2 e2 d2 ce | d2 ce d2 c2 | B2 g2 fedc | {c}B6 Ac | d2 d2 d2 cd | e2 e2 e2 de | f2 f2 gfed | cdec A2 GF | B2 B2 .Bc.dB | A2 A2 A2 GF | B2 B2 .Bc.dB | A2 A2 A2 GF | G2 G2 AGFE | D2 D2 DGFE | D2 D2 D3 :|]
DUKE OF CUMBERLAND'S MARCH [1], THE. English, March (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The march, named for Prince William Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765) and the younger son of King George II, appears in the c. 1770 music manuscript collection of Benjamin Cooke, along with a number of other martial airs. The Duke is remembered in Scotland as "Butcher Cumberland" for his cruelty after his victory at the Battle of Culloden, Inverness, in 1746. A version of the march was recorded in 1998 by English musician Brian Peters on his CD "Beast in the Box" as "Studentenmarch," which he had collected from folk musicians in Denmark, with the suggestion that it had been a 17th century Dutch melody. The tune is also similar to an untitled march in the Watts manuscript.
