minstrel: Marching songs

[Dantowse at aol.com]

Good folk,

 Do we in our collective wisdom know much about 1200-1450 English (or German) 
Marching songs? I presume they were a period feature of most armies. I am 
most interested to learn about rythmic structure. Are we looking at basic 
(forgive the OOP terminology) 2/4-4/4ish stuff or did they swing it around 
the corners a la Glenn Miller or a Highland pipe-band drum Corps?

Cantor/refrain? 
or 
Verse/Chorus?

Or (God forbid, :-)  ) Just devotional hymns with dirty words?

 Side question. When is the earliest reference to "The white cockade"? The 
earliest I know is Jacobean, so a bit useless..

Regards to all

Robert of Canterbury
Thamesreach,
Drachenwald.
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