Gisburn

Introduction and History

The Gisburn North West Processional Morris Dance

Dance Notations

Tunes Used

The primary tune for the Gisburn is John of Paris/Old 95 but we are trying a new tune written by our very own Roughlee Ruffian, Paul Nicholson - Moog's Day Out

1. Moog's Day Out
2. John of Paris
3. Blaydon Races

A sugggested arrangement for the previous tunes is given here Gisburn Arrangement

Bibliography

Gisburn Processional Dance Bibliography:

• Clitheroe Advertiser 17th May, 1979
• Douglas, Leta, 1934, Article attributed to Leta Douglas “Three More Dances of the Yorkshire Dales”
• Janet Dowles, Clitheroe ( photographs, newspaper clips, CMM Notation for The Gisburn: Clitheroe Morris Men Notation Sheet 1: : author unknown, possibly Bruce Dowles: no date but circa late 1970s/early 1980s))
• http://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Gisburn_Processional author unknown
• http://www.gisburn.org.uk/gisburnvillage/traditions.htm author unknown
• http://www.lancashirefolk.co.uk/Morris_Information.htm
• Lancashire Evening Telegraph 17th May 1979
• Lancaster Guardian, Friday 13th July, 1951
• Manchester Morris Men Archive: pictures courtesy and copyright of Manchester Morris Men Archives.
• Middlehurst, David, Pictures from David Middlehurst (Flicker) and loaned also to Manchester Morris Men Archive
• Pilling, Julian, English Folk Dance and Song Spring 1968, Morris Dancing In Gisburn, pages 10 -11, originally printed in The Dalesman in 1966
• Smith, Roy, http://www.lancashirefolk.co.uk/Morris_Information.htm (Written by Roy Smith, Preston) MORRIS HISTORY/PHOTOS: The History of Morris
• WMF/RD Notes Manchester Morris Men and other sources and hand written source WMF/RD’s Notes on Garland Dance and Lancashire and Cheshire morris.

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