The Repertoire of Dr Turberville's Morris!
This is a temporary page, a work in progress, giving links to a new page or pages describing the "traditions" or styles (each tradition describes a group of dances collected from a given locality or belonging to a specified locale, and having a common style or feel to them) and the more detailed descriptions of each of the dances.
At the moment it contains the bones of the planned content: a list of traditions, and a table of dances. The table lists just about every dance we (the current members as at 2007) can remember having danced; but many have not been danced for at least 10 years, maybe longer!
It might be interesting to trawl through the archives and add the names of at least some of the other dances performed in the earlier years, say the first 9 or so which are not yet included here. Later, maybe!
Further comments added 2009: we have since carried out fairly extensive research (2008-9) and established with some confidence the list of "Wayford" dances, now published in a booklet. Similar work (2009) on the "Oddington Wells" dances is to be published shortly.
The Dances
The dances that are current, or recent, or not completely forgotten are listed in the table below. Click on the links for more information (as available).
Dances
| Dance |
Number in set |
Stick or hanky or... |
Tune |
Notes |
|
Wayford |
| The Cuckoo |
6 |
Stick |
... |
... |
| The Cuckoo |
3 |
Stick |
... |
... |
| Wayford Manor |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
Column |
| Blue Eyed Stranger |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
... |
| Blue Eyed Stranger |
4 |
Hankie |
... |
... |
| Clapton Court |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
... |
| Siege of Exeter |
6 |
Stick |
Flowers of Edinburgh |
Swordplay |
| Holly Moy |
6 |
Stick |
... |
... |
| Eleanor Moy |
4 |
Stick |
... |
... |
| Windwhistle |
6 |
Two Sticks |
... |
... |
| Fools' Jig |
4 |
Stick |
... |
... |
| Valentines |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
Progressive column dance |
| Valentines |
4 |
Hankie |
... |
... |
| Sweet Jenny Jones |
6 |
Stick |
... |
Special stepping. Based (loosely) on the dance performed by Frome
Valley Morris |
| Sweet Jenny Jones |
4 |
Stick |
... |
Special stepping. Based (loosely) on the dance performed by Frome
Valley Morris |
| Dearest Dickie |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
Corners |
| Orange in Bloom |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
Corners |
| Orange in Bloom |
4 |
Hankie |
... |
... |
| Winyard's Gap |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
Corners |
| Wincanton Races |
Hankie |
... |
Line |
| Dowlish Square |
4 |
Hankie |
... |
see Wincanton Races |
| Whetley Cross |
6 |
? |
... |
Coming on |
| Haste to the Wedding |
6 |
Stick and hankie |
... |
Progressive. Developed for the Wedding celebrations of Andrew
and Sue |
| General Monck's March |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
Special stepping. |
|
Bampton |
| all 6 person, or leave out the
middles for 4 |
| The Rose Tree |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
... |
| Jenny Lind |
6 |
Hankie |
Jenny Lind |
... |
| Highland Mary |
6 |
Hankie |
Highland Mary or Banbury Bill |
Chicken Chasing |
| Glorishers |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
... |
| Furze Field |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
Capstans |
| Step and Fetch Her |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
Capers, ... |
| Constant Billy |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
... |
| Bobbing Around |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
... |
| Webley Twizzle |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
... |
| Bonny Green Garters |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
No chorus |
|
Hinton |
| all 6 person, or leave out the
middles for 4 |
| Shooting |
6 |
Stick |
... |
Corners |
| Digging up the Goat |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
Sidesteps |
| Oh! Susannah |
6 |
Stick |
... |
... |
| Lads A' Buncham |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
Corners |
| Getting Up Stairs |
6 |
Hankie |
... |
Clapping |
|
Oddington Wells |
| all 6 person, or leave out the
middles for 4 |
| Swaggering Boney |
6 |
... |
... |
... |
| Country Gardens |
6 |
... |
... |
... |
| Constant Billy |
6 |
... |
... |
... |
| Lads A' Buncham |
6 |
... |
... |
... |
| Balance the Straw |
6 |
Stick |
... |
Stick tossing |
| Cuckoo's Nest |
6 |
Stick |
... |
... |
| Young Collins |
6 |
... |
... |
... |
| London Pride |
6 |
... |
Brighton Camp |
... |
|
Bledngton |
| all 6 person |
| TBD |
|
Ilmington |
| all 6 person |
| Cuckoo's Nest |
6 |
Stick |
... |
... |
| Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket |
6 |
Hankies |
... |
Sidesteps |
| Maid of the Mill |
6 |
Hankies |
... |
Tied Hankies |
|
Border Morris Dances |
| all stick |
| Old Mill |
5 |
Stick |
... |
Originally taught to us by Grimspound |
| Steeple Claydon |
4,6,8 |
Stick |
... |
... |
| Speed The Plough |
4 |
Stick |
... |
Originally taught to us by Jerry Tozer of Great Western Morris |
| Beardown Man |
4 |
Stick |
... |
... |
| Much Wenlock |
4 |
Stick |
... |
... |
| Freaks' Cuckoo |
2,4,6,8 |
Stick |
... |
Developed from the notes published by Freaks in the Peaks |
| Tinner's Rabbit |
3,6,9 |
Stick |
... |
Taught to us by Grimspound |
|
Other odds and ends |
| Hopping Down in Kent |
... |
... |
... |
... |
| Portsmouth |
3,6 |
Hankie |
... |
Originally taught to us by Bideford Phoenix |