Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on March 21st 2008 by andy9876.
This tune has been added to 7 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Prince Rupert's March
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Emin
B2 | e2B2 e2f2 | g3a g2g2 | f2e2 e2d2 | e6 B2 |
e2d2 e3f | gfga g2g2 | fgfe e2d2 | e6 ||
|: e2 | f3e fga2 | d3e d2d2 | g2g2 abab | g6 g2 |
f3e fga2 | d3e d2g2 |1 f2e2 e2d2 | e6 :|2 fedf e2^d2 | e8 ||
Prince Rupert's March
This tune is popular in sessions in the re-enactment scene, but it makes a good dance session tune as well. There is a version of it in Playford (in D minor) which also contains the original dance instructions.
Prince Rupert was the nephew of Charles I and led the royalist cavalry during the Englisg Civil War. There's a lot more info on him and his military career here:
http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/rupert.htm
# Posted on March 21st 2008 by andy9876
Whoops!
.. I never was any good at Englisg at school
# Posted on March 21st 2008 by andy9876
Prince Rupert
This tune first appeared in Elizabeth Rogers' Virginal Book, together with 'Rupert's Retreat'
# Posted on April 23rd 2008 by Sharon the Flute