The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS, or pronounced 'EFF-diss') is an organisation that promotes English folk music and folk dance. EFDSS was...
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website, maintained by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS). A partial list is also available at List of folk songs by Roud number. The primary...
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Cecil Sharp (category English folk-song collectors)
June 1924) was an English collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician. He was a...
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and Frederick Delius (1862–1934). In 1932 the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society merged to become the English Folk Dance and Song Society...
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Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (category English folk music)
Library (VWML) is the library and archive of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), located in the society's London headquarters, Cecil Sharp...
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Dance Retreat. ECD around the United States A list of English dance series. English Folk Dance and Song Society has an online shop selling books and compact...
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English Folk Song Suite is one of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' most famous works. It was first published for the military band as Folk Song...
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They are supported by the English Folk Dance and Song Society. Many traditional English regional folk dances are square dances that have survived into the...
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president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, a position he held until his death. Vol. 2 no 8 of the Journal of the Folk Song Society was dedicated...
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This Old Man (redirect from The Children's Marching Song)
The origins of this song are obscure. There is a version noted in Anne Gilchrist's Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (1937), learned from...
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