Griffin's Corners Morris


Repertoire

Griffin's Corners Morris dances and tunes:

The style is a Cotswold-like one, pasted up out of bits and pieces of some of the collected styles and a few things that can be blamed only on Rich Holmes. Characteristics of the style are evolving slowly. It has some relatively complicated hand motions and relatively simple stepping, with no galleys/hooklegs or "slow capers": double steps, back steps, plain capers, half capers, and closed sidesteps pretty much account for all the stepping.

Select the tune/dance name to see the music in standard dot notation as a PNG graphic, or select one of the other links to get other formats. Or you can get the entire set of tunes in abc format. Conversion from abc to other formats made possible by John Chambers' TuneFinder.

Jigs

For obvious reasons the present repertoire consists only of jigs. Solo jigs.

All the following jigs have some features in common, including some built-in provisions for individual dancers to customize to their own tastes: there's a choice of stepping and figures in most of the A sections, and the B sections include a couple bars of "dancer's choice" where the dancer may do whatever he feels like, provided it fits the music. These opportunities for variation help make up for the lack of slow capers, which in many styles are the central feature of the jigs.

Black Joke (ABC, TXT, PS, EPS, PDF, GIF, MIDI)
Dance first performed September 1997 at the Toronto Ale.
Flowers of Edinburgh (ABC, TXT, PS, EPS, PDF, GIF, MIDI)
Dance first performed 1 May 2004 at Syracuse's 24th May Day Celebration.
Jockey to the Fair (ABC, TXT, PS, EPS, PDF, GIF, MIDI)
Dance first performed 1 May 2002 at Syracuse's 22nd May Day Celebration.
Princess Royal (ABC, TXT, PS, EPS, PDF, GIF, MIDI)
Dance first performed 1 May 2002 during school touring after Syracuse's 22nd May Day Celebration.
The Quaker (ABC, TXT, PS, EPS, PDF, GIF, MIDI) -- also done to another tune as Highland Mary (ABC, TXT, PS, EPS, PDF, GIF, MIDI)
Dance first performed 27 Jul 2002 during the Dog Days Ale.
What Can the Matter Be (ABC, TXT, PS, EPS, PDF, GIF, MIDI)
Dance first performed 27 Jul 2002 during the Dog Days Ale.

Odds and ends

Griffenfeldt (ABC, TXT, PS, EPS, PDF, GIF, MIDI)
Under consideration as a dance tune.

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