This is the first and only horn dance i've been to but I intend to go again. Without revealing my age, I am, by the sound of it, older than you! I'm still young enough to Morris Dance though! Glad you liked the vid and interested to hear of your family connections.
There's a 27 page book by Jack Brown which costs around £5 - The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, a full history and notation. This is published by Jack Brown, The Cottage, Colton Rugeley, Staffordshire, WR 15 3LA. Jack Brown was also involved in the revival of The Lichfield Morris tradition. The book should tell you all you need to know and also has photo's from 1893, 1905 and other photo's
Quite similar to morris dancing. I can see perhaps an early form of several morris-like figures - the chorus resembles the half- and full-gip figures nearly always at the start of cotswold morris dances, with stars and rounds coming at the end, leading to the cast-off, as rounds usually does.
@Thorskegga weighing ceremony is definitely on the list for me to visit and has been for some time! (I looked at your Flickr account and you have some good photo's). I will post more videos on RUclips soon.
Not sure of that one. Perhaps someone from the dance side can explain that. I believe The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance tune is danced (by Thaxted Morris Men?) at the Morris Ring Meeting at Thaxted in early June, but The Abbots Bromley dancers don't use it.
Fun to see, but I was surprised that you didn't dance to the tune, Abbot Bromley's Horn Dance, which I assumed was the "official" tune used for this ancient dance. Anyway, thanks for sharing!
I found an English 13th century dance tune on RUclips (under 13th Dentury Medieval English Dance) but it probably isn't anything more than a crude approximation to what was used for the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance at that time. Do you have any recommended reading for the Horn Dance?
A few questions: What's the relationship between this and morris dancing? The histories I've seen are extremely vague - has anyone done any real research on it? And the tunes on this video seem more modern than 13th century, so does anyone know what early songs were likely used in the earliest horn dances?
The traditional antlers of this morris team are so old that the dear they came from is extinct in the British isles. Thats how old this traditional dance is...
Definitely worth going to. It starts early in the morning and goes on throughout the day. Don't miss any of it!
Thanks for your comment. It's me that filmed it - christopherhobson. Great day. We'll be there again!
This is the first and only horn dance i've been to but I intend to go again. Without revealing my age, I am, by the sound of it, older than you! I'm still young enough to Morris Dance though! Glad you liked the vid and interested to hear of your family connections.
about 6 in the morning - so very early! missed them this year though so perhaps next year again.
There's a 27 page book by Jack Brown which costs around £5 - The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, a full history and notation. This is published by Jack Brown, The Cottage, Colton Rugeley, Staffordshire, WR 15 3LA. Jack Brown was also involved in the revival of The Lichfield Morris tradition. The book should tell you all you need to know and also has photo's from 1893, 1905 and other photo's
Quite similar to morris dancing. I can see perhaps an early form of several morris-like figures - the chorus resembles the half- and full-gip figures nearly always at the start of cotswold morris dances, with stars and rounds coming at the end, leading to the cast-off, as rounds usually does.
@Thorskegga weighing ceremony is definitely on the list for me to visit and has been for some time! (I looked at your Flickr account and you have some good photo's). I will post more videos on RUclips soon.
Not sure of that one. Perhaps someone from the dance side can explain that. I believe The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance tune is danced (by Thaxted Morris Men?) at the Morris Ring Meeting at Thaxted in early June, but The Abbots Bromley dancers don't use it.
lol, I'm an American and I kind of have a dream to go through Great Britain and look at all ya'll's nutty traditions, this worth being there for?
Fun to see, but I was surprised that you didn't dance to the tune, Abbot Bromley's Horn Dance, which I assumed was the "official" tune used for this ancient dance. Anyway, thanks for sharing!
I know! I'm impressed with British people for being around so long. Nutty is better than boring believe me!
Whats nutty about it? We have been doing things like this for thousands of years...
I found an English 13th century dance tune on RUclips (under 13th Dentury Medieval English Dance) but it probably isn't anything more than a crude approximation to what was used for the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance at that time. Do you have any recommended reading for the Horn Dance?
A few questions: What's the relationship between this and morris dancing? The histories I've seen are extremely vague - has anyone done any real research on it? And the tunes on this video seem more modern than 13th century, so does anyone know what early songs were likely used in the earliest horn dances?
@Thorskegga thanks for the comment and for subscribing
The traditional antlers of this morris team are so old that the dear they came from is extinct in the British isles. Thats how old this traditional dance is...
@castaspella169 - Americans have nutty traditions, too, albeit not 1000 years old.