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    Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was an English collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer...
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  • Elliot Hobbs, Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Mary Augusta Wakefield. The English Folk Dance Society was founded in 1911 by Cecil Sharp. Maud Karpeles...
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  • Constance Sharp, suffered a life-changing illness. Cecil Sharp referred to Karpeles as "the faithful Maud". On their many travels together, Sharp would introduce...
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  • Birds: Cecil Sharp, Mary Sands, and the Madison County Song Tradition. Musical Traditions, 15 March 2002. Retrieved: 13 March 2009. Cecil Sharp, Maud Karpeles...
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    passed down through previous generations. In 1916, English folklorist Cecil Sharp visited Madison County to collect and record traditional folk songs being...
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    simply "Folk music is what the people sing." For Scholes, as well as for Cecil Sharp and Béla Bartók, there was a sense of the music of the country as distinct...
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  • wrote of her woes in the symbolism of flowers; however, the folklorist Cecil Sharp doubted this claim. The versions allegedly written by Habergram would...
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  • songs, the author and date of origin are unclear. The English folklorist Cecil Sharp collected and notated a version from Endicott, Franklin County, Virginia...
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    The word Morris apparently derived from morisco, meaning 'Moorish'. Cecil Sharp, whose collecting of Morris dances preserved many from extinction, suggested...
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    Song Society (EFDSS), located in the society's London headquarters, Cecil Sharp House. It is a multi-media library comprising books, periodicals, audio-visual...
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    Scottish ballad "Bonnie George Campbell". According to the musicologist Cecil Sharp the ballads of Appalachia, including their melodies, were generally most...
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  • The Cecil Sharp Project was a multi-artist, residential commission to create new material based on the life and collections of Cecil Sharp, founding father...
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  • Shirley Collins (who probably learnt the song from a version collected by Cecil Sharp in Somerset) released a popular version in 1959 which inspired most of...
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    head along with his dulcimer playing. In 1917, the folk music collector Cecil Sharp collected songs from Jean's older sisters May (1896–1982) and Una (1900–1989)...
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  • Williams, Folk songs of the Upper Thames (London, 1923) and C. Sharp, Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Song, ed., Maud Karpeles, 2 vols (London:...
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  • dancing. It was introduced by traditional folk musician William Kimber to Cecil Sharp near the beginning of the twentieth century, then popularised by a diverse...
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  • Bellowhead, Show of Hands, Cara Dillon, 17 Hippies, Kepa Junkera Band and the Cecil Sharp Project. 2012: Richard Thompson, Kate Rusby, Show of Hands, Dervish and...
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  • British origin.[citation needed] It remains popular in the 21st century. Cecil Sharp published the song in Folk Songs From Somerset (1906). The imagery of...
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    Cecil Sharp in the market town of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, England, from a woman named Mary Clayton. The following are taken from Sharp's...
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    ballad. The song first appeared in print in Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp's 1917 compilation English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians,...
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  • Williams catalogue is 1904, as collected in Somerset and arranged by Cecil Sharp. A later entry for 1908 gives the source as Jane Gulliford from Somerset...
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    a one-man show about folk song collector Cecil Sharp, which resulted in the album An Hour with Cecil Sharp and Ashley Hutchings, (1986). From this point...
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  • Brasstown, North Carolina, and that of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp, portrayed at the end of the film as professor Cyrus Whittle. The film...
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  • drawn from the collection made by Vaughan Williams' friend and colleague Cecil Sharp. The suite consists of three movements: March, Intermezzo and another...
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    Somerset. She was an early source of songs for the folk song collector Cecil Sharp and she is said to have shaped his interests. Her half-sister was another...
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  • England by Cecil Sharp 1919: English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachian by Cecil Sharp 1922: The Country Dance Book by Cecil Sharp 1923: Folk Songs...
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  • performers and the music teacher Cecil Sharp was probably the most important in understanding of the nature of folk song. Sharp produced the five volume Folk...
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  • "(From South Carolina; country whites, MS. of Mr. Bryan; 1909)": When Cecil Sharp collected folksongs in the Appalachian Mountains in 1917 he found two...
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  • (Roud 1434) is a traditional English folk song. It was collected by Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles in 1909. It has been arranged by Benjamin Britten John...
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  • the song, collected by musicologists including Sabine Baring-Gould and Cecil Sharp from the West of England at the start of the twentieth century. The stanzas...
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