Annotation:Staines Morris (3)

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STAINES MORRIS [1]. English, Air and Country Dance Tune (4/4 or 6/4 time). E Minor (Bacon, Raven): D Minor (Williamson): D Dorian (Chappell): G Dorian (Barnes, Sharp). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC (Sharp): AABCC (Raven): AABB (Barnes, Chappell). The tune first appears in the William Ballet Lute Book (1595), and was printed in "much altered" form in Playford's English Dancing Master of 1650-51.

There is a town of Staines on the Thames River, but whether the title is associated with it is not known. The tune was used for a morris dance of the same name in the Cotswold village of Longborough, Gloucestershire.

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 255. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 1), 1859; p. 243. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pp. 34 & 46. Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 25. Williamson (English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes), 1976; p. 17.

Recorded sources: - Carthage CGLP 4406, Hutchings et al - "Morris On" (1972/1983). Maggie’s Music MMCD216, Hesperus - “Early American Roots” (1997).