Cecil Sharp : his life and work.
| Author/creator | Karpeles, Maud |
| Other author | Fox Strangways, A. H. (Arthur Henry), 1859-1948. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, [1967] |
| Description | xii, 228 pages : 16 plates (including portraits, facsimiles), table ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface -- Boyhood and early manhood, 1859-91. Family ; Childhood ; School and other tuition ; University ; Australia -- Music as a profession, 1892-1905. Return to England ; Musical aspirations ; Finsbury Choral association ; Ludgrove ; Engagement and marriage ; Children ; Religious and political views ; Personal appearance ; Hampstead Conservatoire ; Adelaide Road, Hampstead -- The turning point, 1899-1902. Health ; Mattie Kay ; Headington ; A Book of British Song ; Earlier folk song collections ; The folk-song society ; Charles Marson -- Folk-song collecting, 1903-14. Hambridge and 'The seeds of love' ; Folk song collecting and folk singers -- Folk-song crusade, 1903-06. First lecture on folk song ; Press campaign ; Contemporary collectors ; Folk-songs from Somerset ; Break with Charles Marson ; S. Baring-Gould ; Editing of texts ; Pianoforte accompaniments ; Copyright in folk song ; Marlborough House -- Definitions, 1906-07. Folk songs in schools ; Controversy on folk and national songs ; English Folk-Song: Some Conclusions ; Nationalism in music -- The Morris dance, 1905-10. Miss Mary Neal and the Esperance Club ; The Morris Book ; William Kimbler ; Recognition of Morris dances by the Board of Education ; Chelsea physical training college ; The folk-dance club -- Controversy, 1910-12. Resignation of Ludgrove ; Controversy with the Esperance Morris Guild ; Move to Uxbridge ; Civil list pension ; Dance demonstrations ; Women's Morris ; Stratford-on-Avon summer school, 1911 ; Formation of the English Folk Dance Society ; Stratford-on-Avon Conference, 1912 ; Artistic ideals -- English folk dances and folk-dance collecting, 1906-14. Ritual significance of the dances ; The Morris dance ; The sword dance ; Processional dances ; The country dance ; Playford's Dancing Master ; Dance notation ; Selection of dances and songs -- The English Folk Dance Society, 1912-14. Organization ; Folk-dance instruction ; Personal finances ; Cecil Sharp's leadership ; Honorary directorship ; Fellow-workers ; Cecil Sharp's playing ; The Society's first demonstration team ; Savoy Theatre and other performances ; Folk carols ; Folk chanteys ; A Midsummer Night's Dream (London production) -- Visits to America, 1914-18. New York ; First lectures ; A Midsummer Night's Dream (New York production) ; Formation of U.S.A. branch of the English Folk Dance Society ; General impressions ; U.S.A. summer school ; Mrs Olive Dame Campbell ; Move to Church Row, Hampstead ; Elizabethan May Day Festival ; Folk-dance teaching in America ; War casualties ; Financial difficulties ; Washington ; Meeting with American scholars ; Final return to England -- The Appalachian mountains I, 1916. Folk song collecting in the southern Appalachian mountains -- The Appalachian mountains II, 1917-18. Folk song collecting in the southern Appalachian mountains -- Post-war England, 1918-23. Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead ; Folk dancing in the army ; Board of Education appointment ; Schoolchildren ; Organization of the English Folk Dance Society ; Lectures ; Performances at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith ; Relinquishment of pension ; Ill-health ; The last collecting ; Honorary degree -- Last days, 1923-24. Montreux ; Translation of Arbeau's Orchesographie ; The Dance ; English ballet ; Plans for the future ; Last illness ; Death ; Cecil Sharp house -- Epilogue -- Cecil Sharp's publications -- Appendix: Summary / by A. H. Fox Strangways. |
| General note | A revision and rewriting of Cecil Sharp, by A. H. Fox-Strangways and Maud Karpeles. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: pages 201-207. |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML423.S53 K4 1967 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |