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|f_annotation='''BLACKSMITH'S MORRIS'''.  English, March (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A morris dance or processional tune from dancing master Daniel Wright's '''Extraordinary Collection of Pleasant and Merry Humours never before Published, Containing Hornpipes, Jiggs, North Cuntry Frisks', Morris's, Bagpipe Hornpipe's, & Round's with Severall Additonal fancis added. fit for all those that play Publick.''' (London, c. 1713, No. 33).  
|f_annotation='''BLACKSMITH'S MORRIS'''.  English, March (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Blacksmith's Morris" is a morris dance or processional tune from dancing master Daniel Wright's '''Extraordinary Collection of Pleasant and Merry Humours never before Published, Containing Hornpipes, Jiggs, North Cuntry Frisks', Morris's, Bagpipe Hornpipe's, & Round's with Severall Additional fancis added. fit for all those that play Publick.''' (London, c. 1713, No. 33). John M. Ward posits that this tune is a branch of "[[Staines Morris (1)]]" that "begins with a twice-stated variant of the model's bars 1-3 compressed to two, continues with three one-bar variants of the tune's bars 5-6 transposed downward, and ends with a cadence on 'c'"<ref>John M. Ward, "The Morris Tune", '''Journal of the American Musicological Society''', vol. 39, No. 2, Summer 1986, p. 311.</ref>. Ward notes that it is the only time "Blacksmith's Morris" is identified in print as a morris tune. Wright also included two versions of "Staines Morris" in his volume, as well as another offshoot of the tune's family, "[[Ye Wild Morris]]."
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|f_printed_sources=Offord ('''John of the Green: Ye Cheshire Way'''), 1985; p. 80.   
|f_printed_sources=Offord ('''John of the Green: Ye Cheshire Way'''), 1985; p. 80.   

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BLACKSMITH'S MORRIS. English, March (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Blacksmith's Morris" is a morris dance or processional tune from dancing master Daniel Wright's Extraordinary Collection of Pleasant and Merry Humours never before Published, Containing Hornpipes, Jiggs, North Cuntry Frisks', Morris's, Bagpipe Hornpipe's, & Round's with Severall Additional fancis added. fit for all those that play Publick. (London, c. 1713, No. 33). John M. Ward posits that this tune is a branch of "Staines Morris (1)" that "begins with a twice-stated variant of the model's bars 1-3 compressed to two, continues with three one-bar variants of the tune's bars 5-6 transposed downward, and ends with a cadence on 'c'"[1]. Ward notes that it is the only time "Blacksmith's Morris" is identified in print as a morris tune. Wright also included two versions of "Staines Morris" in his volume, as well as another offshoot of the tune's family, "Ye Wild Morris."


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Printed sources : - Offord (John of the Green: Ye Cheshire Way), 1985; p. 80.






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  1. John M. Ward, "The Morris Tune", Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 39, No. 2, Summer 1986, p. 311.