The Morris Book, Part 1 eBook

Cecil Sharp
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 65 pages of information about The Morris Book, Part 1.

The Morris Book, Part 1 eBook

Cecil Sharp
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 65 pages of information about The Morris Book, Part 1.

Hand-clapping in last four bars of “B” music is a repetition of clapping in first four bars, as shown in diagram.  Therefore in the Notation of this dance (p. 77) the term “Hand-clapping” means clapping as shown above, and the same repeated.

ON HOLDING STICKS.

Unless specially instructed otherwise, the stick is held, whether at the end or middle, as follows.  It must be grasped much as a penholder should be; that is, lying in the hollow at the base of the thumb, supported by the second finger, and with the forefinger and thumb meeting together above it, to hold it in place.

NOTATION.

MUSIC.               |           MOVEMENTS.                 | FORMATION.
|                                      |
|    BEAN SETTING (STICK DANCE).       |
|In this dance, the step throughout    |
|  is 4/2.                             |
Once to yourself.    |Partners tap across on last half-bar. | Column.
|                                      |
A.               |                                      |
(1st time).          |Ring (see p. 51).                   | Col. to
|Partners tap across at half-bar in    |  Ring.
|  bars 4 and 8.                       |
B.               |                                      |
(1st time).          |Dibbing (see p. 52).                | Front.
|                                      |
A.               |                                      |
(2nd time).          |Cross-over.                           |   "
|Partners tap across at half-bar in    |
|  bars 4 and 8, that is, at middle    |
|  and end of the Cross-over.          |
|                                      |
B.               |                                      |
(2nd time).          |Dibbing.                              |   "
|                                      |
A.               |                                      |
(3rd time).          |Back-to-back.                         |   "
|Tap as in A. (2nd time).              |   "
|                                      |
B.               |                                      |
(3rd time).          |Dibbing.                              |   "
|Two bars before the  end, leader      |
|  calls “All in,” whereupon all, as   |
|  they tap for the last time, j.      |
|  outward, forming Column, and        | Column.
|  stand for a moment with sticks      |
|  crossed.                            |
|            ALL IN.                   |
MUSIC.               |           MOVEMENTS.                 | FORMATION.
|                                      |
|         LAUDNUM BUNCHES              |
|         (CORNER DANCE).              |
|                                      |
Once to yourself.    |Ju. last half-bar.                    | Column.
|                                      |
A.               |Ju. last half-bar.                    |   "
|Down-and-back, Ju.                    |   "

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