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  • The Fife and Drum

    This is something I found when I was searching for some 'family history' background.
    It is the newsletter of Friends of Fort York and Garrison Common

    It about a 1.81mb download, however it is an interesting segment of Canadian history.

    A short quote from the Newsletter... Music at Fort York in the 19th Century
    by Robin Elliott


    It is a blustery late autumn day at Fort York in 1824; the
    winds howl and the skies are dark, with the promise of a cold
    rain later that day and an interminable winter stretching out
    ahead. Spirits are low among the troops of the 76th Regiment,
    who have been garrisoned at Fort York for two years and have
    another two long years of duty ahead of them. Suddenly a fifer
    strikes up Thomas Arne’s “Rule Britannia.” The skies do not
    part, yet the troops’ spirits lift and they sing along lustily with
    the tune that has stirred British souls for many decades.
    This vignette is fictional, though inspired by the performance
    of a fifer during a recent visit to Fort Henry. Nonetheless it is
    clear that in addition to playing calls and signals that regulated
    the daily life of his regiment, one of a military musician’s chief
    duties was to lift his comrades’ spirits.


    Now read on @ http://www.toronto.ca/culture/museum...e_and_drum.pdf
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