Saturday 12 December 2015
Tune of the Day: Morgiana
Traditional Irish jig
This jig is taken from Harding's All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances, published in New York in 1905. In the Arabian Nights Morgiana was a brave and sharp-witted slave girl who aids Ali Baba, whom at the end of the tale he frees and betroths to his nephew. The name Morgiana is also a variant of Morgan le Fay, sister to King Arthur and a famous witch.