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'''DEAREST DICKY'''. AKA - "Dearest Dickie." AKA and see " | '''DEAREST DICKY'''. AKA - "Dearest Dickie." AKA and see "[[Marquis of Harlington (The)]]." English, Morris Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBB, AABBB, AACCC, AACCC. A cornerdance and tune rom the village of Leafield, Oxfordshire, in England's Cotswolds. Leafield was called Fieldtown by the collector Cecil Sharpe, and the group of dances from that village are today known in morris circles as Fieldtown dances. The music was largely collected by Sharpe from a fiddler by the name of Frank Butler. The melody appears in the c. 1860's music manuscript of William Tildesley (Swinton, Lancashire), under the title "The Marquis." | ||
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DEAREST DICKY. AKA - "Dearest Dickie." AKA and see "Marquis of Harlington (The)." English, Morris Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBB, AABBB, AACCC, AACCC. A cornerdance and tune rom the village of Leafield, Oxfordshire, in England's Cotswolds. Leafield was called Fieldtown by the collector Cecil Sharpe, and the group of dances from that village are today known in morris circles as Fieldtown dances. The music was largely collected by Sharpe from a fiddler by the name of Frank Butler. The melody appears in the c. 1860's music manuscript of William Tildesley (Swinton, Lancashire), under the title "The Marquis."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 159. Mallinson (Mally's Cotswold Morris Book), 1988; No. 21, p. 16.
Recorded sources: Cottey Light Industries CLI-903, Dexter et al - "Over the Water" (1993). Fellside Records FECD192, Spiers & Boden - "Tunes" (2005).