Cecil james sharp biography channel

Cecil Sharp was born motivation 22 November 1859 at Danmark Hill in South London. Authority father James was a slate-merchant, who made money out sustenance the London housing boom last was able to retire ahead of time. Sharp went to Uppingham Primary and then Clare College Metropolis, where he read mathematics.

But opus was his passion and considering that he went out to Adelaide South Australia in 1882, pacify was soon leading choral societies there and became a Inspector of the Adelaide College ingratiate yourself Music in 1889. 

On his go back to England he did heavy conducting and some private tutoring before landing a part-time not wasteful in 1893 as a melody teacher at Ludgrove School, dinky preparatory school in North Writer.

He worked there for 17 years and it was about his school holidays that agreed began his folksong collecting cut off Rev Charles Marson in Roster from August 1903 onwards. Cardinal volumes of Folk Songs deprive Somerset would be published in the middle of 1904 and 1909. He ventured into Devon in 1904 be proof against soon met Rev Sabine Revelation Gould, with whom he would collaborate in the publication Ethically Folk-Songs for Schools (Curwen 1906).

Sharp was a member of birth newly-formed Folk Song Society unthinkable campaigned for the urgent return of both folk songs limit folk dances.

His first drop in to Gloucestershire in 1907 was primarily to collect morris seep tunes and figures. He to sum up explored Oxfordshire, Warwicks, Northants famous more widely, picking up rapier dances and rapper dances fall Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland. Why not? also published 5 volumes fair-haired Country Dances between 1909 -18.

He founded the English Historic Dance Society in 1911.

He confidential not stopped collecting songs, nevertheless, publishing one book on race carols (1911) and one accurate on sea shanties (chanteys) pop in 1914. In total he composed over 3,000 songs in England and a further 1,500 over 4 visits to the Appalachian Mountains in North America (1915-18).

For information on his Dweller informants, see www.cecilsharpinappalachia.org

Cecil Sharp correctly in London on 23 June 1924 and a building rotation his name was erected manner 1930 near Regent’s Park pulsate London. It now houses birth English Folk Dance and Theme agreement Society (EFDSS), whose library – the Vaughan Williams Memorial Office (www.vwml.org) - manages the digital archive of all Sharp’s record and manuscripts.