Esperance Morris Book vol 2 - online book

A Manual of Morris Dances Folk-Songs and Singing Games

With Instructions, Diagrams, Sheet Music and Lyrics.

By MARY NEAL, Published By J. CURWEN & SONS Ltd London, Circa 1910

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About This Book (this is volume 2 of 2)

The Espérance Club, and the Maison Espérance dressmaking cooperative, were founded in the mid-1890s by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Mary Neal in response to distressing conditions for girls in the London dress trade. Mary Neal had become fascinated by the folk songs and dances being collected by Cecil Sharp, and invited some traditional dancers to teach morris dancing to the young women of the Espérance Club. Thus was born the Espérance Morris, which inspired a modern London women's side, New Esperance Morris. ~

THE welcome given to the first volume of the " Esperance Morris Book," and the rapid growth of the movement for the revival of our English folk dance, has made the preparation of this second volume a delightful task. The story of the origin of the revival of the morris dance, and the unique part taken in that revival by the members of the Esperance Club, needs no re-telling to-day. It is, perhaps, not so generally known that until after the official sanction of the Morris dance by the Board of Education and its inclusion in the school curriculum, the instructors sent out by the Esperance Club were the only ones who had been directly taught by country dancers, and that they—and they only—had up till that time carried the dances throughout the length and breadth of England.
MARY NEAL.

Esperance Morris Book vol 2, Index
Deduct 100 from the numbers show to get the original page numbers from the book.

Frontispiece - TRADITIONAL DANCERS AND THEIR FIDDLER AT HEADINGTON Title Page Printers Mark DEDICATION TOMFOOL, HOBBY HORSE, AND FIDDLER, ILMINGTON MORRIS OFF, AT KNOCKHOLT SALLY LUKER MEN OF ESPERANCE GUILD IN A SWORD DANCE THE LOCK, CHARACTERISTIC OF SWORD DANCES. SINGING A SEA SHANTY, WHILE THE DANCERS HALT. KNOCKHOLT. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION ENGLAND-TO-BE ENGLAND-TO-BE CONTENTS NOTES ON THE TUNES AND DANCES - 0101 BLUE-EYED - 0102 RULES. - 0103 DESCRIPTION OF THE DANCES - 0104 DRAW BACK {Stick Dance} - 0105 DOUBLE SET BACK (Handkerchief Dance) - 0106 HOW D'YE DO, SIR - 0107 TRUNKLES - 0108 OLD MOTHER OXFORD (Morns Jig) - 0109 COUNTRY DANCES - 0110 FIGURE OF EIGHT - 0111 SWORD DANCE - 0112 Page - 0113 NOTES ON THE SEA SONGS AND SHANTIES - 0114 BEAN-SETTING - 0117 RODNEY - 0118 DRAW BACK - 0119 BLUE-EYED STRANGER - 0120 DOUBLE-SET BACK - 0121 HOW dye do, sir - 0122 LAUD'NUM BUNCHES - 0123 TRUNKLES - 0124 OLD MOTHER OXFORD - 0125 BUMPUS O' STRETTON - 0126 Page - 0127 STEP AND FETCHHER - 0128 FIGURE OF EIGHT - 0129 WE WON'T GO HOME TILL MORNING - 0130 THE BONNY BREAST KNOT - 0131 STICK DANCE - 0132 SWORD DANCE - 0133 SEA SHANTIES. COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY CLIVE CAREY - 0134 THE BANKS O' SACRAMENTO - 0135 SHENANDOAH - 0136 Page - 0137 A LONG TIME AGO - 0138 Page - 0139 THE LIVERPOOL GIRLS - 0140 Page - 0141 GOODBYE, FARE YOU WELL - 0142 Page - 0143 ROLLING HOME - 0144 SPECIMEN PROGRAMME REVISED - 0145 AMERICANS LEARNING ENGLISH FOLK MUSIC - 0148 PRESS NOTICES OF THE ESPERANCE CLUB - 0149 Page - 0150 Page - 0151 MUSIC - 0152

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