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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English Folk Dance and Song Society (redirect from Cecil Sharp House)
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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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 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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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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Shrewsbury Folk Festival (section Cecil Sharp Project)
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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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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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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Maud Karpeles (section Study with Cecil Sharp)
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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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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