Trom en trommelstokken, anoniem, ca. 1600 - ca. 1699 - Rijksmuseum
16th-l7th-CENTURY MILITARY MARCHES
By Henry George Farmer, Ph.D., D.Litt., Mus. Doc
''The drum march, pure and simple, was one of the main features of martial discipline, and every nation had its own particular national type. Gordon of Rothiemay records of 1637-1638 how Scottish drummers were teaching their soldiery
to distinguish between "The marches of severall nationes . . . the Scottish Marche
. . . the Irish Marche . . . the English Marche."1 This knowledge was a necessary
item even in the economy of tactics. During the Thirty Years' War the Germans once used the Scots March so as to deceive the enemy.2 At Oudenarde the Allied
drummers beat the French Retraite,which even a Vendôme could not stem.8''
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