The Grenadiers March (Ashworth; Fife and Drum Sheet Music)

Описание: Went through the old collection of videos and found out that the old video for this had a few pretty massive errors. Unfortunate.

"The Grenadiers March", as with a large part of the American fife and drum repertoire, was originally from Britain.

By the time of the Napoleonic Wars, and specifically for the U.S. its wars with Britain and its First Nations allies, this piece was usually beaten when a unit presented arms. This version specifically, utilising the "rolling" version of the drum beating, was beaten when guards presented arms to each other. The other version, the "drag" version (basically identical to the version propagated in British drum tutors), was beaten when a unit presented arms to a general. Both versions were beaten simultaneously when there was more than one drum.

This version specifically comes from "A New, Useful and Complete System of Drum Beating" by Charles Stewart Ashworth, an English-born American, who was "Leader of the Marine band of Music" in Washington D.C. by 1812.
https://drumminaround.com/resources/h...

Also used was Samuel Potter's "The Art of Beating the Drum" (https://www.yorkshirecorpsofdrums.com.... While this is a British source, the more modern style of notation used, and the near identical nature of Ashworth's and Potter's drum beatings did prove important.

Images are as follows:
1. A depiction of the Battle of Crysler's Farm in 1813.
2. A depiction of the Battle of the Thames from 1836.
3." The final stand at Bladensburg, Maryland, 24 August 1814" by Charles Waterhouse.
4. A depiction of the Battle of Chippewa by H. Charles McBarron Jr.

MuseScore Studio was used to create the sheet music engraving and the audio.
Both drum roll and sticking patterns are indicated in the sheet music as well.