FIFE TUNE (F)

X: 033040
T: FIFE TUNE (F)
O: Mount Pleasant Tablatures, 1950s, JB.
R: reel, march
B: DTFMTF: Sam Bayard's "Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife" p.33 #40
Z: 2026 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: D
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A | df a2 | ge fd | cd ed | cB AA | df af | ge cA | d2 z ||
A | DE FA | dd dc/d/ | ec ed | c/B/A/G/ FA | DE FA | dd dc | d2gc |  d2 z ||
A | FA A2 | GB B2 | FA AF | GEE A | FA A2 | GB B2 | AA Bc | d2 z |]
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% % The first part has some resemblance to a once well known Irish march tune called A Bed of
% % Feathers and Ropes: see Petrie Stan, No. 1336. The second strain I cannot acount for. The third
% % strain is a commonplace in the tunes of fifers and fiddlers both: for notes about its recurrences in
% % earlier-published tunes, see under our No. 224. A tune whose first part seems to be a minor-mode
% % form of the first strain of A Bed of Feathers and Ropes is in Feldman, p. 188, 2nd.
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Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Bayard/033040_Fife_Tune-D-23-3/0000