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'''GB/2/1 Hey Diddle Dis (Filkins Morris Dance)''' '''GB/2/2 Princess Royal (Filkins Morris Dance)'''

=== Northwest Morris === ...other types of morris dancing. The dancers generally wear clogs, and often dance to a brass band. The dances are often processional in nature, or contain fi

'''Bampton Traditional Morris Men'''. One of three morris sides in [[Bampton]], [[Oxfordshire]] - the ''[[Francis Shergold|Shergold]] [[Category:Morris Dance]]

There might be a regular country dance or a folk night! There might be a Morris, Sword or Molly Dance team to watch or even join!

Morris dance. At Bledington and Fieldtown this is a leapfrog dance.

== Morris Dancing == Since 1978 there have been two morris teams in the town, following an acrimonious split.

== Morris dancing == '''Morris sides'''

...tter, Volume 28, Number 2, September 1, 2008 is now hosted at the American Morris News [http://www.americanmorrisnews.org/pastissues/sept2008v28n2/tonybarran Back to [[Dance]]

Country dance and morris tune, also known as 'Balance A Straw' and 'Balancy Straw'. Used as a morris tune at

===A TRIP TO UXBRIDGE (dance)=== A longways dance and music, devised and composed by Colin Hume.

==Dance Research== * [[Dance Bibliography]]. Includes books, articles,academic studies, and links to not

Fiddler and Morris Dancer Cecil Sharp collected a good few morris and country dance tunes from him between 1907-11.

===DANCE IN TUDOR ENGLAND=== Jill Beck looks at the 16th century dance renaissance.

'''You Lazy Lot of Bone-Shakers: Songs & Dance Tunes of Seasonal Events''' ...01 - [[The Britannia Coconut Dancers]] - Live Performance - [[The Nut Dance]]

One of three morris sides in [[Bampton]], Oxfordshire. Often referred to simply as "the Woodley [[Category:Dance]]

...onut dance in nearby Bacup, there is no evidence to suggest that a coconut dance ever existed in Rochdale. If not, where did the tune come from? It is likel ...ocman&task=doc_view&gid=55&Itemid=71 An arranged version by the Dartington Morris Men]

...er parts of the country as leader and accordion player of the Bampton Barn Dance Band. :He was such an authority that the English Folk Dance and Song Society was preparing to award him the Gold Badge, its highest acc

...igned. The journal was replaced in 1932 by the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.

Home to a morris dance tradition, while Adderbury resident [[Janet Blunt]] collected songs from a == Morris Dancing in Adderbury ==

===A CUMBRIAN SWORD DANCE=== ...photos of the Eynsham Mummers, Kentish Hoodeners and Sam Bennett's 'Broom Dance'; two songs:''[[Windy Old Weather]]'' and ''[[Three Jolly Hoodening Boys]]'

Cover: Manley Morris Dancers Derek Schofield looks at ''The'' Traditional Dance Event, organised annually by the Black Cap Swordsmen, and asks, "Why hasn't

Fiddler, morris musician, fool Tunes and Morris dances collected by Cecil Sharp in 1909 etc

...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''

...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

Cecil Sharp collected many country dance and morris tunes of him.

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.

...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===

* FTX-384 - CONSTANT BILLY ''BILLY WELLS - Morris Dancing'' ...England. ‎(CD) Topic Records TSCD659 1998 ''Johnny's So Long At The Fair - Morris tune''

...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

...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===

== 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

...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

...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

...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>

...wn details of the [[Adderbury#Morris Dancing in Adderbury|Adderbury morris dance tradition]], largely from [[William Walton]].

==Essex Dance Traditions== ===Morris Dance===

...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.

:Green Man & Morris - Hastings, [[Sussex]] :Jack-in-the-Green procession & Morris - Whitstable, [[Kent]]

*Track 17 - [[Bampton Morris]] with [[Jinky Wells]] - [[Banbury Bill]] ...]] & [[Ian Powrie]] - [[Stirling Militia]] / [[Ruthven House]] / [[Fairy Dance]]

...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.

Journal of [[Open Morris]]. ===English Dance & Song===

...rd. Butterworth was also an expert folk dancer, being particularly fond of Morris dancing.'' George Butterworth's work as a folk song and dance collector was immensely important. His manuscripts and notebooks, held at

...ates from 1250. The last traditional player of the instrument was Meredith Morris, originally from Pembrokeshire, who died in 1921.

Containing 80 musical items. Mainly dance tunes, some song airs, and hymns at the back. Inside cover are the rubber-stamped logo of ‘The English Folk Dance Society’ and the following words in a 19thC hand:-

'''GB/7d/10 The Blackbird (Dance)''' T:GB/7d/10 The Blackbird (Dance)<br>

...r another purpose or just for the joy of it. Thus a song tune can become a dance tune or a concert piece. * '''Morris Tunes on the Morris Ring website''' [http://www.themorrisring.org/music] ABCs, dots and mp3s of

...ertina player Bill Rudds, who was ill.&nbsp; Stephen was so taken with the dance that he taught it to a side he himself raised at Mitcheldean, where he was

everything. For folk and morris dance the anglo concertina and its accordion cousin the melodeon proved ideal. Pe

...s]], [[Willie Jones]], [[Fred McDowell|Mississippi Fred McDowell]], [[Neil Morris]], [[Almeda Riddle]], [[Hobart Smith]], and [[Ed Young]]. Selections from t ...of his colleagues, and of Lomax's comparative research on world music and dance. It will also include one or two older collections of audio recordings made

* 1000 English Country Dance Tunes; Raven,Mike; Stafford; Michael Raven Pub; 1999; Revised 2nd ed, of 19 ...illiam Kimber,The; Worral,Dan M.; London; EFDSS; 2005; Biography of famous Morris musician, and 28 tunes; [http://folkshop.efdss.org/Books+and+Publications/A

...list presently concerns itself with the effect of this on English popular dance music, which even from the earliest times can be seen to reflect reality by ...e Library Of Dance], which contains links to many early published tune and dance books from all around the world.

* 42 Fairies Dance, The D * 45 Dance in Peggy's Love (2 parts) D 6/8

[[Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers]] - [[Jockey to the Fair]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Sha [[Bampton Morris]] - [[Quaker, The (Morris Dance)|The Quaker]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 03

...s evidently written by flute players or other instrumentalists. As well as dance tunes, they often contain psalms, hymns, songs and militia tunes. Though ma ...een omitted as being based on uncertain information, or containing too few dance tunes. Most of the items are 18th/19thC, though a historically significant

'''GB/7b/21 Constant Billy (Dance)''' T:GB/7b/21 Constant Billy (Dance)<br>

C:Mr. Goff, Herefordshire, July/August 1909 (Dance Tunes, 1 of 6) <br> C:Mr. Goff, Herefordshire, July/August 1909 (Dance Tunes, 2 of 6)<br>

T:Staines Morris. (p)1651.PLFD1.097 N:Very similar to the Morris tune "Beaux Of London City".