Complete Music For The Fife And Drum

A collection of 78 tunes containing some Civil War selections as well as many other traditional favorites. Each arrangement features harmony, style marks and guitar chords. The music is supplemented with histories of the tunes and drumbeats. Complete Music for Fife and Drum was compiled by a professional fifer and intended for the military fife in B-flat. This book offers tunes from the Revolutionary and Civil War eras with suggested snare and bass drum parts as well as chord progressions. It also contains a wealth of fife history and resources. The author, Walter Sweet, is the son of the well-known American fife maker Ralph Sweet of Connecticut. Includes access to online audio.

CONTENTS

• Ancient And Honorable Artillery
• Arkansas Traveler
• Army Six-Eight
• Army Two-Four
• Battle Hymn Of The Republic
• Blackberry Quadrille
• Blue & The Gray
• Bonnie Blue Flag
• British Grenadiers
• Caledonia
• Chicken Reel
• City Guards
• Cloverdale Jig
• Col. Robertson's Welcome
• Columbia, The Gem Of The Ocean
• Connecticut Halftime
• Crown Point
• Dixie
• Downfall Of Paris
• Drums And Guns
• East Hampton Fifes And Drums
• Eighteen-Twelve
• Eighth Volunteers
• Essence Of Tampa
• Fancy Six-Eight
• Father O'Flynn
• Fifty Cents
• Finnegan's Wake
• Firemen's Quickstep
• Frog In The Well
• Garry Owen
• Girl I Left Behind
• Goober Peas
• Grandfather's Clock
• Granny, Will Your Dog Bite?
• Green Cockade
• Guidon [Not On Cd]
• Harum Scarum
• Hashup
• Haversack
• Hell On The Wabash
• Huntington
• Inimitable
• Irish Reel
• Jaybird
• Jefferson And Liberty
• Just Before The Battle, Mother
• Katy Hill Ostling
• Kingdom Coming
• Lakes Of Sligo
• Long March Ashworth
• Marching Through Georgia
• Martin's Rattler
• Minstrel Boy
• Monumental Two-Four
• Moon And Seven Stars
• Nancy Hanks
• New Tatter Jack
• Northwest Passage
• Nutmeg Volunteers
• Old Dan Tucker
• Old Saybrook
• Oyster River Hornpipe
• Paddy On A Handcar
• Paddy O'toole
• Pet Of The Pipers
• Pig Town Fling
• Plain Six-Eight
• Pumpkin Creek
• Rally 'Roung The Flag
• Road To Boston
• Sailing Masters Of 1812
• Sailor's Hornpipe
• Scotty O'neil
• Sisters
• Six-Shooter
• Some Distance From Prussia
• St. Patrick's Day In The Morning
• Star-Spangled Banner
• Steamboat Quickstep
• Stonewall Jackson's Way
• Tallewan
• Tapoff [Not On Cd]
• Tearful Drummer
• The General
• The Powder Keg [Not On Cd]
• Three Hundred Years
• Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!
• Turkey In The Straw
• Village Quickstep
• Wearin' Of The Green
• Westbrook Drum Corps
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home
• Willie Weaver
• Wrecker's Daughter
• Yankee Doodle
• Yellow Rose of Texas
• York Fusiliers