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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 ...
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]
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]
"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 ...
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Sharp's field notes were available for researchers, though the song was not published until after Sharp's death, when his collaborator, Maud Karpeles, produced a second volume of songs from the Southern Appalachians. [23] By 1937, the English Folk Song Society had become the English Folk Dance and Song Society, and in that year, another tune ...
While there, Olive noted that ballads sung by the residents had strong ties to both English and Scots-Irish folk songs. The ballads that she collected would eventually be published as English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians by Cecil Sharp and Olive D. Campbell in 1917. [2]