Annotation:Upton-on-Severn Stick Dance (The)

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UPTON-ON-SEVERN STICK DANCE. AKA and see: "Barley Brae," "Two Sisters." English, Morris Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB. A morris dance tune from the village of Upton-on-Severn, the vehicle for a dance featuring dancers with sticks in what was once perhaps a ritual-combat sequence.

Upton-on-Severn morris dancers

The tune, however, has an odd provenance, having been collected in America by Maude Karpeles, and applied to the Borders morris dance.

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