Longman & Broderip's Entire and Compleat Instructions for the Fife
In 1767, James Longman established a music business at 26 Cheapside, London, which was then, despite its name, a quite fashionable address. Established initially as a pianoforte manufactory, the business thrived because that instrument was growing dynamically in prominence. Longman soon took in a partner, Mr. Francis Fane Broderip, and the enterprise grew even more dynamically, selling stringed instruments of all kinds as well as horns, reeds, and percussion instruments. In 1770, the firm expanded into a publishing house, printing music that ranged in genre from cotillions and marches to opera. The firm then published Compleat Instructor for the Fife. They also published a variety of instrument instruction books on the flute, oboe, bassoon, and the French horn. Their second fife instructor, published in 1780, was the Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife. It was followed in the same year by The Young Drummer's Assistant. Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife (1780) has been digitally enhanced to look as crisp and sharp as the day it was published and is 35 pages long. In addition to the lessons on the fife, it contains a total of 83 tunes from the time of the American Revolution.
English
Duty | Scotch Duty |
| The Reveilly | The Reveilly |
| The General | The General |
| To Arms | To Arms |
| Troop or Assembling | The Gathering |
| Doublings of the Troop | Grenadiers March |
| Troop | Foot March |
| Doublings | Retreat |
| Troop for the Colours | Tattoo |
| Doublings When Colours are Rec'd | |
| Troop | |
| Doublings | |
| Troop | |
| Doublings | |
| Grenadiers March | |
| The Retreat |
Other
Fife Tunes: | ||
| Rogue's March | Irish Widow | March in the 15th Regiment |
| The Drums Call | Marionets | Coronation March |
| A Scotch Reveilly | The Shambuy | Installation March |
| To Arms | La Promenade | First Coldstream March |
| Queen of Hungary's Tattoo | The Pantheon | Second Coldstream March |
| Hessian Tatoo | The Waterman | Third Coldstream March |
| French Troop | The Courtship | Janizaries March |
| Bellisle March | Guardian Angels | Prince Eugene's March |
| Singling of a Troop (Weldeman) | Soldiers Joy | Count Saxe's March |
| Singling of Johnson's Troop | Hob or Nob | Lord Harrington's March |
Doubling of Johnson's Troop | Turk's March | First Reg't of Guards March |
| Singling of Pool's Troop | Marquis of Granby's March | King George the 3rd March |
| Doublings | 2nd Grenadiers Guards March | Bedfordshire March |
| The Duke's March | Count Brown's March | Marshall Lowendahl's March |
| Duke of York's Favorite Troop | Duke of Gloster's New March | Captain Reed's March |
| Duke of York's March | March in the Deserter | King of Sweden's March |
| Trio | Captain Money's March | King of Denmark's March |
| Pioneer's March | March in Judas Macchabeus | Albinia Quick March |
| Lango Lee | General Wolfe's March | King of Prussia's March |
| Paddy Whack | Duke of Gloster's March | Marshall Saxe's New March |
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