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The folk music of England is a tradition-based music which has existed since the later medieval period. It is often contrasted with courtly, classical and later commercial music. Folk music traditionally was preserved and passed on orally within communities, but print and subsequently audio recordings have since become the primary means of ...
Cecil Sharp, a member of the Folk-Song Society and founder of the English Folk Dance Society; the two societies merged in 1932 to form the English Folk Dance and Song Society. The Folk-Song Society, founded in London in 1898, [9] focused on collecting and publishing folk songs, primarily of Britain and Ireland although there was no formal ...
England has a long and diverse history of folk music dating back at least to the medieval period and including many forms of music, song and dance. Through three periods of revival from the late nineteenth century much of the tradition has been preserved and continues to be practiced. [ 21 ]
The reel is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type. Of Scottish origin, ... Reels are popular in the folk music of South West England.
Pages in category "English folk dance" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
1908: Traditional English Songs by Lucy Broadwood (1858–1929) [3] 1913: The Morris Book by Cecil Sharp [2] 1913: Sword Dances of Northern England by Cecil Sharp [2] 1919: English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachian by Cecil Sharp [2] 1922: The Country Dance Book by Cecil Sharp [2] 1923: Folk Songs of the Upper Thames by Alfred Williams [4]
In 1932 the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society merged to become the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS). [5] New forms of media such as the phonograph and sound film meant that from the 1920s American music began to be increasingly important and even dominant in popular British culture, leading to a further sharp ...
Launched in June 2013, The Full English is a folk archive of 44,000 records and over 58,000 digitised images; it is the world's biggest digital archive of traditional music and dance tunes. [1] The archive brings together 19 collections from noted archivists, including Lucy Broadwood, Percy Grainger, Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams. [1]