Annotation:March for the 3rd Regiment of Foot Lord Amherst's

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MARCH FOR THE 3rd REGT. OF FOOT, LORD AMHERST'S. English, March (whole time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Composed by General John Reid (1721-1807), a Scottish musician and military figure who served in America during the Revolutionary War under Lord Jeffrey Amherst. The march was printed in Reid's Set of Marches for two clarinents, hautboys, or German flues, two horns & a bassoon (London, 1778, p. 2). The piece was reprinted (without the horn parts) in a publication called Martial Music (Albany, 1807), compiled by Timothy Olmstead, a Connecticut psalmnodist and composer who had also been a Connecticut fifer during the war. Raoul Camus believes Olmstead's publication is essentially military music from the American War of Independance era.

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Recorded sources: New World Records 80276-2, "Music of the American Revolution: The Birth of Liberty."