Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

In the early 20th century, ECD was revived in England by Cecil Sharp, who also was known for collecting folksongs.

When Cecil Sharp produced his interpretations he was working in the dark, and others have built on ( and sometimes disagreed with ) his work.

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For Scholes, as well as for Cecil Sharp and Béla Bartók, there was a sense of the music of the country as distinct from that of the town.

Contemporaneously with Child came the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, and later and more significantly Cecil Sharp who worked in the early 20th century to preserve a great body of English rural traditional song, music and dance, under the aegis of what became and remains the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ).

Locations in Southern and Central Appalachia visited by the British folklorist Cecil Sharp in 1916 ( blue ), 1917 ( green ), and 1918 ( red ).

For instance, Cecil Sharp campaigned, with some success, to have English traditional songs ( in his own heavily edited and expurgated versions ) to be taught to school children.

The first major revival of English Country Dance, one of the major types of Regency dance, was by Englishman Cecil Sharp in the early 20th century.

Such isolation would draw folklorists such as Cecil Sharp of London to the area in the years following World War I.

Bax was taught at home, but received his first formal musical education at age 16 from Cecil Sharp and others at the Hampstead Conservatoire.

* June 23 – Cecil Sharp, folk song and dance revivalist ( b. 1859 )

The first, led by Cecil Sharp was academic.

According to the notes by Cecil Sharp on a variant of the Ballad of Little Sir Hugh, the story is as follows:

Cecil Sharp and his cohort among the English Folk-Song Society were among the first to take down the lyrics and tunes of shanties directly from the lips of veteran sailors and to publish them more or less faithfully.

Cecil Sharp ’ s English Folk-Chanteys ( 1914 ) was one of the first large collections of shanties made by a non-sailor and according to the methods of folklore.

Somewhere between these perspectives was Cecil Sharp ’ s, whose English Folk-Chanteys ( 1914 ) was published in the same year, and was based on shanties he collected from aged English sailors in Britain.

As described by Cecil Sharp, there are 6 figures in the dance.

Francis James Child's ( 1825 – 96 ) eight volume collection The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( 1882 – 92 ) became the most influential in defining the repertoire of subsequent performers and Cecil Sharp ( 1859 – 1924 ), founder of the English Folk Dance Society, was probably the most important figure in understanding of the nature of folk song.

Many collectors in the first revival either ignored such songs, or bowdlerized them for publication, as Francis Child and Cecil Sharp did in their collections.

It recovered after the Restoration in 1660 but was in steep decline after agricultural and industrial revolutions by the 19th century, when collectors like Cecil Sharp recorded the practice, particularly from versions of dance he found in the Cotswolds.

Lucy Broadwood and Cecil Sharp collected in Cambridgeshire, as did and Vaughan Williams as well as in Norfolk and Essex from 1905, but most important regional figure was composer Ernest John Moeran, who collected over 150 songs in Norfolk and Suffolk in the 1920s.

Cecil Sharp ’ s interest in the region was largely confined to the south, particularly the Cotswold morris villages of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, which provided him with an archetype of English ceremonial dance.

These were very different from the styles of dance that collectors like Cecil Sharp had encountered in the Cotswolds and were largely dismissed by him as contaminated by urbanisation, yet they were, and remain, a thriving tradition of music and dance.

In her will she devised that a Duncan Phyfe rosewood secretaire made for her father go to her cherished nephew Cecil Kent Drinker, a Harvard physician, whom she had painted as a young boy.

Anne had been pledged to Philip Sidney two years earlier, but after a year of negotiations Sidney's father, Sir Henry, was declining in favor with the queen and Cecil suspected financial difficulties.

In addition, Cecil had been elevated to the peerage as Lord Burghley in February 1571, increasing his daughter's value as a member of the peerage, so the negotiations were cancelled.

Cecil was displeased with the arrangement, given his daughter's age compared to Oxford's, and had entertained the idea of her marrying the Earl of Rutland instead.

Any hope Oxford might have had of assuming parental care of his daughters was dashed by Sir Robert Cecil, due to the fact that he had never supported them financially in the past, and now had yet another wife and child.

On 4 December he was shocked that Cecil, who had encouraged him to undertake the Danvers suit on the Crown's behalf, had now withdrawn his support for it.

Cecil B. DeMille was a leading figure in the increased use of the Insert, and by 1918 he had reached the point of including about 9 Inserts in every 100 shots in The Whispering Chorus.

Jonsson, a co-founder of Texas Instruments, learned about Pei from his associate Cecil Howard Green, who had recruited the architect for MIT's Earth Sciences building.

John Dowland was married and had children, as referenced in his letter to Sir Robert Cecil.

The NKVD complained to Cecil Barclay, SIS representative in Moscow, that much had been withheld.

For example, the British South Africa Company ( founded by the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes ) still retained commercial assets and mineral rights that it had acquired from a concession signed with the Litunga of Bulozi in 1890.

The Brewers alone had three players finish in the top five in the league in home runs with Gorman Thomas, who led the league with 39, Ben Oglivie, who hit 34, and Cecil Cooper, who hit 32.

However, her chief minister Sir Robert Cecil had corresponded with the Protestant King James VI of Scotland, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and James's succession to the English throne was unopposed.

He returned to Edinburgh telling Croft he had to return to his flock, and suggested that Henry Balnaves should go to Cecil.

Sixty guilders in 1626 had the approximate value of $ 1000 in 2006, according to the Institute for Social History of Amsterdam Based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $ 72 in 1992.

Byrd's contribution includes the famous Earl of Salisbury Pavan, composed in memory of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, who had died on 24 May 1612, and its two accompanying galliards.

Aldington and H. D. attempted to mend their marriage in 1919, after the birth of her daughter by a friend of writer D. H. Lawrence, named Cecil Gray, with whom she had become involved and lived with while Aldington was at war.

Cecil immediately had him proclaimed a traitor.

" Essex also asserted that Cecil had stated that none in the world but the Infanta of Spain had right to the Crown of England, whereupon Cecil ( who had been following the trial at a doorway concealed behind some tapestry ) stepped out to make a dramatic denial, going down on his knees to give thanks to God for the opportunity.