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...

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...

Constance Sharp, suffered a life-changing illness. Cecil Sharp referred to Karpeles as "the faithful Maud". On their many travels together, Sharp would introduce...

Birds: Cecil Sharp, Mary Sands, and the Madison County Song Tradition. Musical Traditions, 15 March 2002. Retrieved: 13 March 2009. Cecil Sharp, Maud Karpeles...

passed down through previous generations. In 1916, English folklorist Cecil Sharp visited Madison County to collect and record traditional folk songs being...

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...

wrote of her woes in the symbolism of flowers; however, the folklorist Cecil Sharp doubted this claim. The versions allegedly written by Habergram would...

songs, the author and date of origin are unclear. The English folklorist Cecil Sharp collected and notated a version from Endicott, Franklin County, Virginia...

The word Morris apparently derived from morisco, meaning 'Moorish'. Cecil Sharp, whose collecting of Morris dances preserved many from extinction, suggested...

Song Society (EFDSS), located in the society's London headquarters, Cecil Sharp House. It is a multi-media library comprising books, periodicals, audio-visual...

Scottish ballad "Bonnie George Campbell". According to the musicologist Cecil Sharp the ballads of Appalachia, including their melodies, were generally most...

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...

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...

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)...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ballad. The song first appeared in print in Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp's 1917 compilation English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians,...

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...

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...

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...

drawn from the collection made by Vaughan Williams' friend and colleague Cecil Sharp. The suite consists of three movements: March, Intermezzo and another...

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...

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...

"(From South Carolina; country whites, MS. of Mr. Bryan; 1909)": When Cecil Sharp collected folksongs in the Appalachian Mountains in 1917 he found two...

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...

William A Pond. Between 1904 and 1914, the famous English folklorist Cecil Sharp collected many different versions in the coastal areas of Somerset, England...

performed on bass, guitar and mandolin with Robyn Hitchcock as 'Biscotti' at Cecil Sharp House, London. On 30 April 2013, Jones appeared live on the BBC TV Show...