Annotation:Will Rarie Old March (2)

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WILL RARIE OLD MARCH [2]. AKA and see "Harrison's Grand March." American, March (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The tune, as "Harrison's Grand March," was printed by Boston music publisher Elias Howe in 1842 in his Musician's Omnibus, Part 1. The march is presumably a political piece, rallying support for wikipedia:William_Henry_Harrison's (1773-1841) presidential campaign. Harrison won in 1740 and was inaugurated in Jan., 1841, although he died just 31 days later^[1]--the shortest presidency in United States history.

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Source for notated version : - Walter Neal (fiddler from Armstrong County, Pa., 1952) [Bayard].

Printed sources : - Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 255, p. 217.

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↑ The prevailing theory was that he contracted pneumonia after riding to his inauguration in the rain without topcoat or hat, however, Jane McHugh and Philip A. Mackowiak did an analysis in Clinical Infectious Diseases (2014), examining Miller's notes and records showing that the White House water supply was downstream of public sewage, and they concluded that he likely died of septic shock due to "enteric fever" (typhoid or paratyphoid fever).

[1] The prevailing theory was that he contracted pneumonia after riding to his inauguration in the rain without topcoat or hat, however, Jane McHugh and Philip A. Mackowiak did an analysis in Clinical Infectious Diseases (2014), examining Miller's notes and records showing that the White House water supply was downstream of public sewage, and they concluded that he likely died of septic shock due to "enteric fever" (typhoid or paratyphoid fever).

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