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After their first study in Appalachia, Sharp and Karpeles published English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. [34] Among the ballads Sharp and Karpeles found in Appalachia were medieval-themed songs such as "The Elfin Knight" and "Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor", and seafaring and adventure songs such as "In Seaport Town" and "Young ...
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English folk songs from the southern Appalachians, collected by Cecil J. Sharp; comprising two hundred and seventy-four songs and ballads with nine hundred and sixty-eight tunes, including thirty-nine tunes contributed by Olive Dame Campbell, edited by Maud Karpeles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932. [63]
Table: Ballads and Songs Sung By Mrs. Jane Gentry and Collected by Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil James Sharp, Published in: English folk songs from the southern Appalachians [11] Date Sung Entry Type Title Scale 1 Sept. 12, 1916 1 B Ballad The False Knight Upon the Road Pentatonic Mode 3, b (no 6th) 2 Sept. 11, 1916 4 A Ballad The Two Sisters
"English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. Collected by Cecil J. Sharp" (2 volumes, 1932. London: Oxford University Press) "Folk Songs of Europe" (1964. New York: Oak Publications) "Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs Vol 1 & 2" (1974) "The Crystal Spring" (1975) (This is a selection from the 2 vols of "English Folk Songs" 1974)
The results of Campbell and Sharp's respective work were ultimately made publicly available in a groundbreaking 1917 publication "English Folk Songs from Southern Appalachia" [12] which exposed for the first time the persistence of such folk songs, of Scotch-Irish origin, in the repertoires of the residents of the remote Appalachian mountains ...
In the strictest sense, English folk music has existed since the arrival of the Anglo-Saxon people in Britain after 400 AD. The Venerable Bede's story of the cattleman and later ecclesiastical musician Cædmon indicates that in the early medieval period it was normal at feasts to pass around the harp and sing 'vain and idle songs'. [1]
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]