Three Morris Dances

Performed by Kenworthy Schofield on the Pipe and Tabor EFDSS EP: RPL 1115 [P.R. 304] (n.d. 1958?)

 Shepherd’s Hey

Duration: 2 min. 31.13 sec.

 Country Gardens

Duration: 2 min. 31.35 sec.

Lads A’Bunchum

Duration: 2 min. 31.58 sec.

Shepherd’s Hey: For further details see BCF 20, pp.20-21.

Country Gardens: For further details see BCF 20, pp.21-22.

Lads A’Bunchum: The dance is a corner dance. As for the tune: In Karpeles-Schofield 100 tunes, 37 (as corrected in the Society copy); Raven English Country Dance Tunes (1984), 77. For further details see BCF 20, p.22.

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Dr. Robert Kenworthy Schofield (1901-1960) first became involved in English folk music and folk dance during the Peace Day celebrations of 1918, at the end of the First World War (1914-1918). At Cambridge University he joined the local branch of the English Folk Dance Society (EFDS) 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”. Outside his music Dr. Schofield was a physicist who, after leaving Cambridge, worked at the Rothamsted Research Station in St. Albans. He was the author of a number of scientific papers.