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• EDS Vol 43 No 2
  Cover: Manley Morris Dancers Derek Schofield looks at ''The'' Traditional Dance Event, organised annually by the Black Cap Swordsmen, and asks, "Why hasn't
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• Jinky Wells
  Fiddler, morris musician, fool Tunes and Morris dances collected by Cecil Sharp in 1909 etc
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• Polkas
  ...ng with the Waltz and the Quadrille, in sweeping the Country Dance off the dance floors of England and elsewhere. * ''P & O'' collected from Caleb Walker, musician for [[Manley Morris]] - recorded by ''Pete & Chris Coe''
  1,021 bytes (152 words) - 13:28, 1 July 2007
• Thomas Denley
  ...09: Thomas Denley (Sharp wrote ‘Danley’) was connected with the Withington morris side, as his father Benjamin played pipe and tabor for them. But Thomas, al
  762 bytes (110 words) - 11:06, 11 November 2022
• John Mason
  Cecil Sharp collected many country dance and morris tunes of him.
  346 bytes (49 words) - 13:25, 14 November 2022
• Apple Howling at Henfield
  Published in [[EDS Vol 43 No 4|English Dance and Song, Christmas 1981]] ...as particular attraction as a tree fertility rite to the Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men whose badge has tree symbols.
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• EDS Vol 44 No 2
  ...find dances wherever he goes and in this article he passes on some of the dance information he's come across in the South of England. ===DANCE===
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• Arnold Woodley
  * FTX-384 - CONSTANT BILLY ''BILLY WELLS - Morris Dancing'' ...England. ‎(CD) Topic Records TSCD659 1998 ''Johnny's So Long At The Fair - Morris tune''
  832 bytes (118 words) - 22:39, 16 February 2022
• William Kimber
  ...rtina|anglo-concertina]] player and Morris Dancer with [[Headington Quarry Morris Men]]. ...g. Subsequently Kimber acted as Sharp's informant on the Headington Quarry Morris tradition, and as his assistant at lectures - Sharp would lecture on them w
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• EDS Vol 41 No 1
  ...first time the figures and background to Bedlington, Northumberland rapper dance, collected by him from the last of the old dancers in the early 1960s. ===MORRIS WORKSHOP===
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• National
  == The English Folk Dance and Song Society == The [http://www.efdss.org English Folk Dance and Song Society] is the longest running society in England dedicated to p
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• Dance Bibliography
  ...and also has a particular interest in the illustration of music and social dance over the centuries. http://www.broadsideband.co.uk ...e containing many articles and facsimiles pertinent to various aspects of dance, including quadrilles, the 1993 Hornpipe Conference, step and clog, English
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• Henry Allen
  ...e Gloucester towards Churchdown. He seems to have been active as a morris dance musician from about 1836, although what the connection was that led to him ...did not. However, one of the other musicians who played for the Ruardean Morris dancers was [[Tite Smith]], from whom [[Stephen Baldwin]] learned a hornpip
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• Frederick George Gardner
  ...sited by Cecil Sharp on 4th April 1912 and Gardner gave him several morris dance tunes - presumably those used by the North Leigh Set: 2765 - Mrs Kaysey (Morris Tune)<BR>
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• Janet Blunt
  ...wn details of the [[Adderbury#Morris Dancing in Adderbury|Adderbury morris dance tradition]], largely from [[William Walton]].
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• Essex
  ==Essex Dance Traditions== ===Morris Dance===
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• William Edwards Davies
  ...ris dancers, Sharp only recorded two tunes from him, only one of which had Morris connections. ...to 'Green Sleeves' music which was played to 'bacca pipes' or the Cushion dance by Mr. Davies at Winchcombe, April 8th 1909.
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• May
  :Green Man & Morris - Hastings, [[Sussex]] :Jack-in-the-Green procession & Morris - Whitstable, [[Kent]]
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• First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty
  *Track 17 - [[Bampton Morris]] with [[Jinky Wells]] - [[Banbury Bill]] ...]] & [[Ian Powrie]] - [[Stirling Militia]] / [[Ruthven House]] / [[Fairy Dance]]
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• Princess Royal
  ...h dancers as a long dance, and to musicians as a popular tune used for the dance. Many of the best Irish musicians of the 20th century have recorded it, inc ...ch version is largely based on Abingdon, the major key seems unique to the morris.
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