Folk dancing, English; Folk music -- England -- History and criticism; Folk songs, English -- England -- History and criticism
But the characteristics of all the dances are vigour and virility, and
there is nothing in the least like the posturing with pointed toe which
characterises the ordinary ball-room and stage dances.
The following is a complete list as far as I know of all the Morris
dances collected and published since the revival in 1905:—
Bean-setting.
Laudnum Bunches.
Country Gardens.
Constant Billy.
Trunkles.
Rigs o’ Marlow.
Bluff King Hal.
How d’ye do, Sir?
Shepherds’ Hey.
Blue-eyed Stranger.
Hey diddle Dis.
Hunting the Squirrel.
Getting up Stairs.
Double set Back.
Haste to the Wedding.
Rodney.
Processional Morris.
Jockie to the Fair.
Old Mother Oxford.
Old Woman tossed up in a blanket.
Bacca Pipes jig.
Flowers of Edinburgh.
The Rose.
Field Town Morris.
The Maid of the Mill.
Bobbing Joe.
Glorisheers.
The Gallant Hussar.
Leap Frog.
Shooting.
Brighton Camp.
Green Garters.
Princess Royal.
Lumps of Plum Pudding.
The Fool’s Dance.
Derbyshire Morris.
Derbyshire Morris Reel.
The Cuckoo’s Nest.
The Monk’s March.
Longborough Morris.
Heel and Toe.
Bobby’s Joan.
Banks of the Dee.
Dearest Dicky.
London Pride.
Swaggering Boney.
Young Collins.
All’s for the Best and Richmond Hill.
Step Back.[4]
I’ll go and enlist for a Sailor.
Sherborne Jig.
None so Pretty.
Cross Caper, or Prince’s Royal.
We won’t go home till Morning.
Abraham Brown.
Morris Off.
Long Morris.
Cross Morris.
Three Cans Morris.
Nancy Dawson.
The Boatman’s Song.
The Tight Little Island.
The Girl I left behind Me.
The Rose Tree and The British Grenadiers.
Garryowen.
With a Hundred Pipers.
Ninety-five.
Draw Back.
Bumpus o’ Stretton.
Lively Jig.
Morris On.
Sally Luker.
A Nutting we will go.
[4] As far as I can gather, this is the dance called “Molly Oxford” by
the Field Town dancers; it seems that Mr Sharp has substituted this
name owing to the fact that it is not danced to the “Molly Oxford”
tune. One of the dancers repudiates the title on the ground that the
characteristic figure is a spring and not a step back.
In addition to these Mr F. Kidson has also published a set of Country
and Morris dance tunes, but without instructions as to the dances.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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