FTX-325 - SHEPHERD'S HEY

ENGLISH PIPE & TABOR

17 MORRIS & COUNTRY DANCE TUNES played on 3-hole pipe & tabor by R KENWORTHY SCHOFIELD, recorded by Peter Kennedy in London in 1957, used for Cotwold Morris, North of England Sword and English Period Country Dances, here played on the English 3-hole whistle pipe and tabor drum, or "Wittle and Dub".

1. SHEPHERDS HEY Headington (Oxford) solo dance - 2.04

2. COUNTRY GARDENS Headington hand-clapping - 2.16

3. LADS-A-BUNCHUM Adderbury (Oxon) stick dance - 2.25

4. SELLENGER'S ROUND Playford 1670 4th Edition - 1.45

5. GODDESSES Playford 1650 1st Edition - 0.50

6. PARSON'S FAREWELL As A5. Dance for 4 persons - 1.15

7. NOBODY'S JIG Longways from 1721 17th Edition vol I - 1.36

8. BOBBY SHAFTOE 1st fig Sleights (Yorks) Sword dance - 1.19

9. COCK O THE NORTH Winlaton (Durham) Rapper Sword dance - 0.55

10. PROCESSIONAL Field Town (Oxfordsh) - 1.40

11. GLORISHER Leap Frog dance from Field Town - 1.49

12. OLD MOTHER OXFORD Headington solo dance - 1.12

13. JOCKEY TO THE FAIR (As B3) - 1.40

14. GLORISHER Leap Frog dance from Bledington (Glos) - 1.16

15. LONDON PRIDE Sidestep Dance from Longborough (Glos) - 1.39

16. LAUDNUM BUNCHES Handkerchief Dance from Headington - 1.29

17. HEY DIDDLE DIS Processional from Longborough - 1.03

Recorded 1957 & edited by Peter Kennedy and first published on Folktrax cassettes 1978.

THE THREE-HOLE PIPE was at one time widely played for the traditional teams of Morris dancers. The pipe is fingered by the left hand, the left arm being used to support the tabor, while the right is used for beating the tabor. Similar to the (French & Spanish) Basque Country "Txistu", and others used in South America, it was usually made of wood, but for this recording Dr Schofield used one he made himself out of brass. It was designed and constructed at The Rothamsted Agricultural Experimental Station at Harpenden in Hertfordshire.

THE TABOR used for this recording was Basque, about 18 inches in depth, much deeper than those used traditionally in England which were only 2 or 3 inches. The stick used was 9 inches in length. An article about "The Pipe and Tabor" can be found in the EFDS News No3 (March 1922) pp73-5.

R KENWORTHY SCHOFIELD (1901-1960) first became involved in English folk-dancing during the Peace Day celebrations in 1918. At Cambridge University he joined the local branch of the English Folk Dance Society and became a founder member of "The Travelling Morrice". It was on Morris tours in the Cotswold that he met some of the surviving traditional dancers and musicians. His notes about these encounters can be found in the EFDS Journals for 1928, 1930 and 1934. Later he was one of those responsible for the formation of "The Morris Ring".