The Morris Book, Part 1 - A History of Morris Dancing, With a Description of Eleven Dances as Performed by the Morris-Men of England by Cecil J. Sharp
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"Shakespeare." (Note to Henry IV., Part I.) Steevens.
"Notes and Queries." "Dictionary of Music and Musicians." Four vols. London, Macmillan and Co., 1879-1899. Edited by Sir George Grove. "The Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society." Vol. 8, 1897. "A Treatise on the art of dancing." By Giovanni-Andrea Gallini. London, 1792. "Dancing in all Ages." London, 1879. Edward Scott. "A Lytell geste of Robin Hode, &c." Two vols. London, Longmans, 1847. MORRIS DANCE TUNES. There is not much information about Morris tunes to be gathered from books. Chappell, for instance, in his "Popular Music of the Olden Time," I., pp. 125 and 130, gives but two Morris dance-tunes, "The Staines Morris Tune" and "Trip and Go"; while Mr. Edward Naylor, in the appendix to his "Shakespeare and Music," only prints the same number--"An English Morris, 1650" (a variant of Chappell's "Staines Morris Tune"), and an Italian Moresca by Claudio Monteverde, 1608. In Grove's "Dictionary of Music" (old ed.), II., p. 369, three Morris tunes are recorded: Arbeau's |
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