The drummer's instructor : or martial musician, containing the rudiments of drum-beating, on a new and improved system, the rules for common, quick, and compound time, with beats in each mode, and the whole of the camp duties, consisting of the reveille, troop retreat, tattoo, parley, officers' calls, signals, salutes, &c., as practiced at head-quarters of the Army and Navy, U.S. A. : together with instructions for the bass-drum
Subtitle: intended particularly for the militia
Publisher: Printed by Packard & Van Benthuysen for the authors
Published: 1817
Place of publication: Albany N.Y.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Drum -- Methods; Fife -- Methods; Military calls -- United States; Military music -- United States; Fife and drum corps music; Marches (Fife and drum)
Description: Parallel title: Martial musician

Marches and calls for fife and drum with instructions for the bass drum.

T.p. verso contains notice of copyright 1817.

"To which is added a collection for the fife, adapted to the foregoing on the drum."

Grey-brown wrapper; printed from movable type.