Bower Processional

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 Theme code Index    1313 5433
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    England
 Genre/Style    English, Morris
 Meter/Rhythm    Country Dance, March/Marche
 Key/Tonic of    G
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    2/4
 History    ENGLAND(West Midlands)
 Structure    AB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Lionel Bacon
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Morris Ring (The)
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 234
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1974
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
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BOWER PROCESSIONAL, THE. English, Morris Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Collected from musicians in the village of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. The tune is named for a processional to the site of the dance by morris dancers who hold decorated sticks, or traditionally brances of elm, held vertically.

Printed sources: Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 234. Mallinson (Mally's Cotswold Morris Book), 1988, vol. 2; No. 53, p. 26.


X: 1
T:Bower Processional, Lichfield 2
M:2/4
L:1/8
A:Lichfield
P:(AB)6
K:G
P:A
B|GBBB|GBBB|d2c>c|B3B|
GBBB|GBBB|dcAF |G2 ||
P:B
Bc|d2dd|d2dd|egfe |d3d|
dccc|cBBB|dcAF |G3 ||


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