Buffoon (1) (The)

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Theme code Index	1131 3555
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	Morris
Meter/Rhythm
Key/Tonic of	F
Accidental	1 flat
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/2
History	ENGLAND(South Midlands)
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Lionel Bacon
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Morris Ring (The)
Tune and/or Page number	p. 15
Year of publication/Date of MS	1974
Artist	Biography:John Kirkpatrick
Title of recording	Plain Capers
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Free Reed FRR 010
Year recorded	1976
Media
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BUFFOON [1], THE. English, Morris Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major (Mallinson): F Major (Bacon). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (x5), A. Collected in the village of Adderbury, Oxfordshire in England's Cotswolds. The tune was used for a handclapping dance which comically mimiced a confrontation in which the combatants claped hands, tweaked noses, pulled ears and banging on heads. John Kirkpatrick (1976) notes that fighting movements were fairly common in morris dances, though they were not always this explicit.

Printed sources: Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 15. Mallinson (Mally's Cotswold Morris Book), 1988, vol. 2; No. 28, p. 15.

X: 1
T:Buffoon [1], The
C:Adderbury
M:2/2
L:1/8
A:Adderbury
P:A(AB)5A
K:F
P:A
F3G  AGFG|A2c2 c4  |F3G  AGFG|A2G2 G4|
F3G  AGFG|A2c2 c4  |c2BA G2cB|A2F2 F4||
P:B
d3e  d2c2|d2F2 F4  |d3e  d2c2|d2F2 F4|
d3e  d2c2|B3c  B2A2|c2BA G2c2|A2F2 F4||