Gisburn
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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
A sugggested arrangement for the previous tunes is given here Gisburn Arrangement
Kit
Pictures
Videos
Links
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.