Lionel Bacon - A Handbook of Morris Danc
Lionel was a founder member of Winchester Morris Men (link is external) in 1953. He also danced with Cambridge Morris Men (from 1932), was with The Travelling Morrice, and also a member of London Pride and of Whitchurch Morris Men. The 'Black Book', as his aide memoire became affectionately known, is the most important book for Cotswold morris dancers since the Morris Dance Books were published by Cecil Sharp. It provides, "a baseline based upon traditional sources" (2nd Ed.). A Handbook of Morris Dances was published in 1974.
His notes on “The Music” The treble clef is to be assumed throughout. Each tune is written in the key in which he received it: this is not necessarily the key in which it was collected. A metronome figure is given only when one was published with the tune. The method employed to indicate minor differences in the last bars of the two halves of a repeating phrase is not consistent: here again it is usually as the tune was received by Lionel.
