Annotation:Peterhead Artillery Volunteers March
X:1 T:Peterhead Artillery Volunteers March M:C L:1/8 R:March B: John Morison - A Collection of New Strathspey Reels, with a few favourite Marches (Edinburgh, c. 1797, No. 57) N:Organist and fiddler Morison (1772-1848) was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point in Scotland, on the North Sea. Alburger notes that failing fortunes forced him to diversify: he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery. F:https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_New_Strathspey_Reels_wit/Vo-EymUbJkYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22john+morison%22+%22new+strathspey+reels%22%C2%A0&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover K:C (G/A/B)|c2 c>c ~c>Bcd|e2 e>e e2 (c/d/e)|(fe).d.c (ag).f.e|d2 d>d d2 (G/A/B)| c2 c>c TcBcd|cdef g2 fe|dagf e2 (d/c/d/).e/|c2 c>c c2:| |:(c/d/e/f/)|g2 e>c a2 g>f|(fef).g (fe)(dc)|d>ef>g a>gf>e|d2 d>d d2 (G/A/B)| c2 c>c ~c>Bcd|~c>de>f g2 a/g/f/e/|dagf Te2 (d/c/d/).e/|c2 c>c c2:|]
PETERHEAD ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS MARCH. Scottish, March (whole time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Peterhead Artillery Volunteers March" was composed by John Morison (1772-1848), a fiddler and, for a time, organist at St. Peter's Chapel, Peterhead. Morison was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point of Scotland and a port town on the North Sea. He had a small fiddle band for playing dances, but he supported himself, as many musicians did, with diversification. Alburger notes he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery; he also tuned pianos and organs and copied out music, but eventually he went bankrupt (at least once). Morison published two collections; the first around 1797 and the second in 1815.
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