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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]
This category contains folk songs which originated in England. For a comprehensive list of 25,000 traditional English language songs, see List of folk songs by Roud number . Contents
English Miniature from a manuscript of the Roman de la Rose. Music in the British Isles, from the earliest recorded times until the Baroque and the rise of recognisably modern classical music, was a diverse and rich culture, including sacred and secular music and ranging from the popular to the elite. [11]
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), English composer and song collector; Sam Larner (1878–1965), English folk singer; Percy Grainger (1882–1961), Australian composer who collected and recorded English folk songs; Harry Cox (1885–1971), English folk singer; Lewis 'Scan' Tester (1886–1972), English folk musician
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.
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]
Interior of the Canterbury Hall, an early example of a music hall, opened 1852 in Lambeth.. Early British popular music, in the sense of commercial music enjoyed by the people, can be seen to originate in the 16th and 17th centuries with the arrival of the broadside ballad as a result of the print revolution, which were sold cheaply and in great numbers until the 19th century.
The History of Song (paperback ed.). New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-00536-4. Banfield, Stephen (1985). Sensibility and English Song: Critical Studies of the Early 20th Century, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-5213-7944-1; Pilkington, Michael (1989). Campion, Dowland, and the Lutenist Songwriters. English Solo Song Guides to the Repertoire.