Works cited for British and American music scholarly sources.
Baule, Steven M. “Drummers in the British Army during the American Revolution.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 86 (2008), pp. 20-33.
Byrne, Maurice. “The English March and Early Drum Notation.” The Galpin Society Journal 50 (March 1997): 43-80.
Camus, Raoul F. Military Music of the American Revolution (1976). Integrity Press, 1993.
Downey, Peter. “On Sounding the Trumpet and Beating the Drum in 17th-Century England.” Early Music 24, no. 2 (May, 1996): 263-277.
Farmer, Henry G. Military Music and Its Story: The Rise & Development of Military Music. London: William Reeves, 1913.
Or, purchase a paperback edition of Farmer’s Military Music and Its Story.
Gibson, Joice W. “A Musical and Cultural Analysis of Inkle and Yarico from England to America, 1787-1844.” PhD diss., University of Colorado, 2011.
Hauley, Ray, William Bub, and W.H. Frueh. A Collection of Standardized Fife Tunes and Drum Accompanyment from the period 1775-1783 as used by The Brigade of the American Revolution. Brigade of the American Revolution. 1988.
Howe, Warren P. “Early American Military Music.” American Music 17, no. 1 (Spring, 1999): 87-116.
Johnson, Fred. “The Mother and the Three Camps.” CADRE (September 2014).
Jost, Kerry. Music for the Crown Forces Battalion. Crown Forces Staff. October 1981.
Kingsley, Ronald and Michael Edson. “The Military Musician in Eighteenth-Century America: A View from Fort Ticonderoga.” New York History 82, no. 3 (SUMMER 2001): 213-230.
Knopper, Rob. “5 Snare Drum Grips.” Circa 2020.
Maling, Bill. “Rudiments and Rudimental Drumming.”
Marsh, Christopher. “‘The Pride of Noise’: Drums and Their Repercussions in Early Modern England.” Early Music 39, no. 2 (May 2011): 203-16.
Vorwald, Gary, and Erik Lichack. Military Music of the American Revolution: A Collection of Authentic Signals, Camp Duties, Marches, and Favorite Airs for the Fife and Drum. Brigade of the American Revolution. 2007.
Wood, Bruce. “The First Performance of Purcell’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary.” in Performing the Music of Henry Purcell, Edited by Michael Burden, 61-81. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
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