Annotation:Stourton Wake
X: 1 T: Stourton Wake M: 4/4 S: Seabright N: Paul Turner A: Adderbury O: English R: Reel K: E Dorian V:1 ~ given V:2 D2 |: E2 z4 D2 :| P: A |: B3 c d2 B2 | AGFE F2 D2 | E2 B2 BAGF | E4 E4 :| P:B B3 c d2 B2 | ed cB c2 A2 | B3 c d2 B2 | e4 B4 | B3 c d2 B2 | AGFE F2 D2 | E2 B2 BAGF | E4 E4 ||
STOURTON WAKE. AKA – “Stornton Wake.” English, Morris Dance Tune (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Stourton Wake" is but one of several derivatives of "Boyne Water (1)", including "London Pride," "Idbury Hill" and "Jimmy Garson's March." "Stourton Wake" was collected from the Cotswold village of Adderbury (North Oxfordshire) where there was an unbroken tradition of morris dancing until 1849. Dancing continued off and on for another thirty years until the team was disbanded. The side was eventually disbanded in 1880. More than twenty years laster Cecil Sharp and Janet Blunt and others recorded the remembrances of the tradition from former members of the team, particularly from a former squire, William Walton, however, the clarity of the tradition was sometimes wanting in their writings leading to debates regarding the interpretation of the dances. However, two details stand out: the dancing was accompanied traditionally by pipe and tabor (although a fiddle was used in the mid-19th century), and most of the dances had words which were sung between dances as well as during. The tradition was revived in 1974, based on the work of the early 20th century investigators.
'Stourton Wake' was also danced in the village of Longborough, called there “London Pride,” “noted by Misses Daking, Marshall and Blunt from Fred Webb of Bloxham, whose father had been a Longborough musician.”
