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Bonny Green Garters (lyrics)
Bonny Green Garters (Morris Dance)
Getting Up Stairs
Getting Up Stairs (Morris Dance)
Morris Tune
A Morris tune, whistled to Cecil Sharp by William Kimber
The Willow Tree
The Willow Tree (Morris Dance)
First meeting and Sharp and Neal
Christopher Chaundy, William Kimber, Theo Chaundy Recorded at Theo Chaundy's house, 62 Iffley Road, Oxford, 1956Present: William Kimber, Mabel Stace, Charlie Jones, Jim Phillips, Theo Chaundy, Hilda Chaundy (wife of TC), Christopher Chaundy, Jennifer...
The First of May
The First of May (Morris Dance)
Haste to The Wedding
Haste to The Wedding (Morris Dance)
Bonny Green Garters (notation)
Bonny Green Garters (Morris Dance) - 2
The 29th of May
The 29th May [The twenty-ninth of May] / Bonny Green Garters Morris Dance
6 Handed Reel
6 Hand Reel [six hand reel]
The Triumph (Step and Fetch Her)
The Triumph (Step and Fetch Her)
The Old Woman Tossed up in a Blanket
The Old Woman Tossed up in a Blanket
Hunting The Squirrel
Hunting The Squirrel
Bacca Pipes
Bacca Pipes
Country Gardens
Country Gardens
Blue Eyed Stranger
Blue Eyed Stranger
Bean Setting
Bean Setting
Jockie To the Fair pt 1
Jockie To the Fair pt 1
Jockie To the Fair pt 2
Jockie To the Fair pt 2
First meeting with Cecil Sharp
William Kimber Recorded at Theo Chaundy's house, 62 Iffley Road, Oxford, 1956; a few days after Tape 54A/B.
Rodney
Rodney
Old Mother Oxford
Old Mother Oxford
Sharp as musician and collector
William Kimber Recorded at Theo Chaundy's house, 62 Iffley Road, Oxford, 1956; a few days after Tape 54A/B.
Extracts from William Kimber's Letters
Extracts from William Kimber's Letters
Shepherd's Hey
Shepherd's Hey
Laudnum Bunches
Laudnum Bunches
Jockey to the Fair (tune)
Loveless plays the single solo morris jig "Jockey To The Fair" from the village of Headington Quarry
Education Resources
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Morris Off
Morris Off
Morris Reel No. 1
Morris Reel No. 1
Morris Reel No. 2
Morris Reel No. 2
How D'Ye Do? Morris Dance
How D'Ye Do? Morris Dance
Horton Cum Studley, Oxon. Morris
Horton Cum Studley, Oxon. Morris
Old Mother Oxford
To return to the list of morris tunes, click on 'Morris Tune Notations' in the menu on the right. Click on the links below to view and download the music you need: Melody (key of C)Melody (key of Bb)Melody (bass clef) Accompaniment (key of...
29th of May
To return to the list of morris tunes, click on 'Morris Tune Notations' in the menu on the right. Click on the links below to view and download the music you need: Melody (key of C)Melody (key of Bb)Melody (bass clef) Accompaniment (key of...
Double Set Back Morris Dance
Double Set Back Morris Dance
Shepherd's Hey Morris Jig
Shepherd's Hey Morris Jig
Headington Morris
Headington Morris
Learning tunes
William Kimber et al Recorded at Theo Chaundy's house, 62 Iffley Road, Oxford, 1956; a few days after Tape 54A/B.
Double Lead Through
Double Lead Through
Constant Billy
Constant Billy
The Loveless recordings
The Reverend Kenneth Loveless (1911-1995), Area Dean of Hackney, morris dancer and musician, got to know William Kimber and became his pupil on the concertina. When Kimber died, he left Loveless the concertina which had been bought for him by public...
The Chaundy Collection
In 1956 Theo Chaundy (a mathematics don at Christ Church and a morris dancer with the Oxford University Morris Men) bought a tape recorder and invited William Kimber to his home to talk about morris dancing, along with his fellow dancers Jim Phillips...
Jockie To the Fair - Morris Jig
Jockie To the Fair - Morris Jig
Trunkles
Trunkles (Morris Dance)
Green Sleeves / Bacca Pipes Jig
Green Sleeves / Bacca Pipes Jig

 

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