Cecil Glen Sharp

English Folk-Chanteys With Pianoforte Accompaniment

Sword Dances of Northern England Together With the Horn Dance of Abbots Bromley

English Folk Song: Some Conclusions

The Idiom of the People: English Traditional Verse

The Morris Book: With a Description of Dances As Performed by the Morrismen of England

The Dance:an Historical Survey of Dancing in Europe: An Historical Survey of Dancing in Europe

The Dance: An Historical Survey of Dancing in Europe

One Hundred English Folksongs (Dover Song Collections)

A renowned musicologist presents 100 folksongs from across Britain, arranged for medium voice and piano. Examples of the finest English folk traditions include Henry Martin, Robin Hood and the Tanner, Barbara Ellen, Lord Rendal, Scarborough Fair,Botany Bay, and scores of others. Each song includes n...

The Playford Ball: 103 Early Country Dances 1651-1820 : As Interpreted by Cecil Sharp and His Followers

103 Country Dances from 1651 - 1820, as interpreted by Cecil Sharp and his followers. Contents: The Legacy of Cecil Sharp - Methodology - Bibliography - The Play ford Ball Music - Modern Country Dance Technique - Glossary of Formations, Figures and Steps - Index of Tune Titles, First Lines and Subje...

Cecil Sharp

Others came before and after him but no person is more strongly associated with the revival of English folk song and dance at the turn of the twentieth-century than Cecil Sharp (1859-1924). He collected about 5000 folk songs and nearly 500 dances. This prodigious achievement is told by someone who p...

English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, Vol 2

First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs, and play-party games -- with 968 tunes, collected between 1916 and 1918 from traditional singers in the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, Ke...

English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, Vol 1

First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs, and play-party games -- with 968 tunes, collected between 1916 and 1918 from traditional singers in the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, Ke...

The Morris Book, Part 1 A History of Morris Dancing, With a Description of Eleven Dances as Performed by the Morris-Men of England

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Cecil Sharp: His Life and Work

A biography, revised by the author, of the great collector of folk songs and dances of the English countryside.

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Cecil Sharp

Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 23 June 1924) was the founding father of the folklore revival in England in the early 20th century, and many of England's