Glorishears
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Glorishears" is an English Morris dance tune in 2/2 time. Most print sources give it in<br> A mixolydian. Karpeles also gives it in D mixolydian. Some sources have it with a key<br> signature of three #'s and flatten all the G's to naturals which makes it effectively<br> A mixolydian. I don't feel that the melody comes to a rest on the A and prefer to<br> finish on a D which sets it in D major. You can do that or let it hang on the A.<br> The term "glorishears" is from the Cromwellian Protectorate; it is a condensation of<br> "The Glorious Years." The tune was specified for several ballads, most titled "The Glorious<br> Years of ...(regent or monarch)". It is from the village of Bampton, Oxfordshire, in the<br> Cotswolds.<br> It was used by Gustav Holst for the theme of his Second Suite for Military Band in F, 1st<br> movement where he combined it with two other folk tunes, "Swansea Town" (also the tune of<br> "The Holy Ground" in the Chanties & Sea Songs section) and "Claudy Banks" and made <br> the whole movement into a march.<br> It was printed Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951),<br> Bacon's The Morris Ring (1974), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> and Mallinson's Mally's Cotswold Morris Book (1988).<br>
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