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Current links from this site: If you would like a link to your site please email The Squire UK NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS The Morris Ring promotes male ritual dance.
The Morris Federation promotes all Morris and related ritual dance.
Open Morris promotes all Morris and related ritual dance.
All three organisations promote a wide range of Morris and Morris-related traditions including longsword dancing, rapper dancing, mumming, hoodening and drinking in strict moderation.
All three of these organisations provide centralised services such as insurance to Morris clubs.
SELECTED MORRIS TEAMS www.foolsandbeasts.org.uk The Illustrious Order of Fools and Beasts: A Morris orientated website dedicated to all things to do with Morris Fools & Morris Beasts LOCAL SITES John Maher (Ring webmaster and Bristol MM) maintains the Mainly Morris Dancing site
An international Morris Teams Directory is maintained within the general reference Morris Dancing Wiki
MDDL is an email discussion group covering eclectic aspects of Morris
and loosely related topics. The postings are mostly from UK and USA.
Morris Dancing Bibliography by Mike Heaney at the Bodlean Library in Oxford UK, based on Russell Wortley's 1975 bibliography, is a valuable guide to any study of the Morris.
The Morris Dancer is a fairly academic journal published by the Morris Ring. Volumes are gradually being placed on the web.
TUNES LIBRARIES John Maher and Vaughan Hully have, under the auspices of The Morris Ring, published a collection of morris tunes, in computer readable ABC format. This includes inter alia all the tunes from "A Handbook of Morris Dancing", commonly known as the Black Book, by Lionel Bacon of CMM and Winchester MM.
Alternatively try the tune database maintained by Richard Moon or Steve Allen's "Library of Morris Tunes" also in ABC format.
It is possible (with practice!) to sight read ABC notation; software will print the tunes as "dots" or play them on a PC. This notation was first described by Chris Walshaw at the University of Greenwich and is now being developed further by a community of users including Steve Allen. It is ideal for folk tunes and similar. Application software is available from ABC to windows or ABC navigator
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