Cecil Sharp
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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, teacher, composer and musician. He was a key figure in the folk-song revival in England during the Edwardian period. According to Roud's Folk Song in England, Sharp was the country's "single most important figure in the study of folk song and music".
Sharp collected over four thousand folk songs, both in South-West England and the Southern Appalachian region of the United States. He published an extensive series of songbooks based on his fieldwork, often with piano arrangements, and wrote an influential theoretical work, English Folk Song: Some Conclusions. He notated examples of English Morris dancing, and played an important role in the revival both of the Morris and English country dance. In 1911, he co-founded the English Folk Dance Society, which was later merged with the Folk-Song Society to form the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
Cecil Sharp's musical legacy extends into English orchestral music, and the classroom singing experienced by generations of schoolchildren. Many of the most popular musicians of the British Folk Revival from the 1960s to the present day have used songs collected by Sharp in their work. Scores of Morris dance teams throughout England, and also abroad, demonstrate the resilience of the revival he played a large part in sustaining. In the US, the Country Dance and Song Society was founded with Sharp's support, and dancers there continue to participate in styles he developed.
Over the last four decades, Sharp's work has attracted heated debate, with claims and counter-claims regarding selectivity, nationalism, appropriation, bowdlerisation and racism.
- Bist du bei mir - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Einem Bach der fliesst - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Aus den östlichen Rosen, Op. 25, No. 25 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Wehmut, Op. 39, No. 9 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Schneeglöckchen, Op. 79, No. 27 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Myrten, Op. 25, No. 3: Der Nussbaum - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Mondnacht, Op. 39, No. 5 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Myrten, Op. 25, No. 1: Widmung - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Aufträge, Op. 77, No. 5 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Sandmännchen - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Wiegenlied, Op. 49, No. 4 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Morgentau - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Goethe Lieder, Nr. 29: Anakreons Grab - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Mausfallen - Sprüchlein - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Morgen, Op. 27, No. 4 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Ständchen, Op. 17, No. 2 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Dans un bois solitaire - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Les nuits d’éte, Op. 7, No. 1: Villanelle - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Soupir - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Nell, Op. 18, No. 1 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Après un Rêve - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Adieu - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Mandoline - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Beau Soir - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Romance - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- La reine de coeur - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Priére pour paix - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- The Call - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Have You Seen But a White Lily Grow - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Music for a While - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Where E’er You Walk - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Fancy - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- It Was a Lover and His Lass, Op. 23, No. 3 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- The Salley Gardens - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- The Keel Row - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- She’s Like the Swallow - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- My Boy Willie - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Maa Bonny Lad - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Ingrids vise, Op. 6, No. 4 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Kveldssang for Blakken, Op. 61, No. 5 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Lok, Op. 61, No. 3 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Våren - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Du går icke ensam - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Den lyssnande Maria - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Blomma säj - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Man borde inte sofva - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- Sen har jag ej frågat mera, Op. 17, No. 1 - Favourite Songs - Cecil Sharp
- The Turtle Dove - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- 5 English Folk Songs: No. 3, Just as the Tide Was Flowing - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- 8 Traditional English Carols: No. 4, Down in Yon Forest - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- An Acre of Land - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- A Farmer's Son So Sweet - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- Ca' the Yowes - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- 5 English Folk Songs: No. 1, The Dark-Eyed Sailor - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- It's of a Lawyer - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- We've Been A-while A-wandering "Wassail Song" (Yorkshire Version) - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- Wassail Song (Gloucester Version) - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- Folk Songs from Somerset, Series 3: No. 63, The Keys of Canterbury - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- Rio Grande (Arr. S. Wilson for Voice & Piano) - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- The Crocodile Song - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- Folk Songs from Somerset, Series 3: No. 73, Admiral Benbow - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- Folk Songs from Somerset, Series 4: No. 94, Oh No, John! - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- Songs of the Hebrides: Sea Sorrow "Am bron mara" (Arr. G. Bantock for Choir) - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- 6 Choral Folk Songs, Op. 36b: No. 5, I Love My Love - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- Folk Songs from Somerset, Series 2: No. 33, The Crystal Spring - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- I Will Give My Love an Apple - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- Hugh the Drover: Tuesday Morning - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- Londonderry Air (Arr. F. Kreisler Oboe & Piano) - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- Brigg Fair - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- 2 Interlinked French Folk Melodies - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- A Shropshire Lad - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
- The Turtle Dove (Reprise) - I Love My Love - Cecil Sharp
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