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MORRIS ON. English, Morris Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune accompanies a procession of performers onto the morris dance arena, collected from the village of Headington (Oxfordshire), in England's Cotswolds.

Headington Quarry morris dancers, c. 1895.



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 175. Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Dec., 1959. Mallinson (Mally's Cotswold Morris Book), 1988, vol. 2; No. 47, p. 23.

Recorded sources:




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