Bluff King Hal

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Theme code Index	51H67 1H756
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English, Morris
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History	ENGLAND(West Midlands)
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Lionel Bacon
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Morris Ring (The)
Tune and/or Page number	p. 73
Year of publication/Date of MS	1974
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BLUFF KING HAL. English, Morris Dance Tune (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Collected by Cecil J. Sharp from the village of Bidford, in England's Cotswolds. The melody is a major key version of "Staines Morris." Sharp did not know how it came to be called "Bluff King Hal," although it appears that the dance (and perhaps the adaptation of the tune) was "manufactured" by D'Arcy Ferris of Bidford, who revived morris dancing in the 1880's to be employed as part of a larger events or spectacles. Ferris was a part-time entrepreneur and pageant master [see Forest, History of Morris Dancing, 1999].

Printed source: Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 73.

X: 1
T:Bluff King Hal, CJS
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=120
S:CJS
A:Bidford
P:A.(ABC)14
K:D
P:A
|:A2d2 B2c2|d2cB A2Bc|d2cB A2GF|EDEF D4:|!
P:B
|:FGAB A2GF|EDEF D4  |FGAB A2GF|EDEF D4:|!
P:C
|:F2F2 C2C2|DEFG A2Bc|d2cB A2GF|EDEF D4:|