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'''BUFFOON [2], THE'''. English, Morris Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A related tune to the Adderbury version, collected in the village of Ilmington, Warwickshire, England. | '''BUFFOON [2], THE'''. English, Morris Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A related tune to the Adderbury version, collected in the village of Ilmington, Warwickshire, England. This mention of comedy is wholly relevant. If you look at a reconstruction of the dance on youtube.com (by searching “3 kick, wyresdale”) you will hear a lot of laughter from the audience. This is initiated when the dancers start an arse-kicking sequence (in Wyresdale the hopping dance was simply known as “Greensleeves” and in a local fiddler’s tune book from 1789 the tune Greensleeves is also titled “kick my A—E”). I have found this the hardest part of my investigation because comedy is so ephemeral and difficult to deal with in an ancient historical context. This repeated kicking chorus may have had a separate history. It occurs in the Ilmington Buffoon Cotswold Morris Dance and it seems to be related to Pimponpet which is listed as one of Gargantua’s Games by Rabelais (c.1494-1553). In Randle Cotgraves English/French Dictionary published 1611 it is described as “A kind of game wherein three hit each other on the bumme with one of their feet”. In 1653, Thomas Urquhart, translator of Rabelais, seems to have been familiar with Pimponpet and translates it as Bumdockdousse. | ||
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BUFFOON [2], THE. English, Morris Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A related tune to the Adderbury version, collected in the village of Ilmington, Warwickshire, England. This mention of comedy is wholly relevant. If you look at a reconstruction of the dance on youtube.com (by searching “3 kick, wyresdale”) you will hear a lot of laughter from the audience. This is initiated when the dancers start an arse-kicking sequence (in Wyresdale the hopping dance was simply known as “Greensleeves” and in a local fiddler’s tune book from 1789 the tune Greensleeves is also titled “kick my A—E”). I have found this the hardest part of my investigation because comedy is so ephemeral and difficult to deal with in an ancient historical context. This repeated kicking chorus may have had a separate history. It occurs in the Ilmington Buffoon Cotswold Morris Dance and it seems to be related to Pimponpet which is listed as one of Gargantua’s Games by Rabelais (c.1494-1553). In Randle Cotgraves English/French Dictionary published 1611 it is described as “A kind of game wherein three hit each other on the bumme with one of their feet”. In 1653, Thomas Urquhart, translator of Rabelais, seems to have been familiar with Pimponpet and translates it as Bumdockdousse.
Printed source: Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 221.
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