Annotation:Winster Morris Dance

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X:1 T:Winster Processional M:4/4 L:1/8 R:March K:G g2d2d2 ef | g2d2d2 ef | g2d2d2c2 | B2A2G2z2 | g2d2d2 ef | g2d2d2ef | g2d2d2c2 | B4G2z2 || c3e2e2 dc | B2d2d2 cB | A2B2c2d2 | B2G2G2z2 | c2e2e2dc | B2d2d2 cB | g2d2d2c2 | B4G2G2 ||

WINSTER MORRIS DANCE/MARCH. AKA "Winster Processional." English, Morris Dance Tune (2/2 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Doyle): AABB (Bacon). The tune was used for a processional dance in the village of Winster, Derbyshire, England. It has since become the standard processional tune for many morris teams in the United States. This ditty is sometimes sung before the dance:

This is it and that is it
And this is morris dancing,
The piper fell and he broke his neck
And he said it was a chance Sir.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - S

Printed sources : - Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 318. Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 31 (appears as “A Morris Tune”).

Recorded sources : - EMI/Harvest 7243 8 29861 2 6, Ashley Hutchings et al - "Son of Morris On" (1976/1994). Leader/Trailer LER-2 085, Muckram Rakes - "Map of Derbyshire" (1973).

See also listing at :
Hear the tune played on melodeon by Lester Bailey at youtube.com [1]

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