Search Results: english folk songs from the southern by campbell olive dame

Paperback / softback. New.

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917. xxviii + 341 pages; useful index; frontispiece map showing the geographical position of the southern Appalachians; the pieces are accompanied by musical notation. From the Introduction: "...The words and the tunes in this Collection are typical and authentic examples of the beginnings and foundations of English literature and music...Of the supreme cultural value of an inherited tradition, even when unenforced by any formal school education, our mountain community in Southern Highlands is an outstanding example...We have in the following pages printed the songs exactly as we took them down from the lips of the singers, without any editing or "adornments" whatsoever, and we have done so because we are convinced that this is the only way in which work of this kind should be presented..." Cecil James Sharp (1859 - 1924) collector of English folk-songs and dances, "...collected more than 1500 songs in the Appalachians, often enduring physical hardship and… Read More

London: Oxford University Press, 1960. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 10" by 6.5". None. A fascinating collection of folk songs discovered and recorded by Cecil Sharp in the Southern Appalachians. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Cecil James Sharp (1859-1924) was an English-born collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician. He was the prominent activist in the development of the folk-song revival in England during the Edwardian period. Sharp collected over four thousand songs from untutored rural singers, both in South-West England and the Southern Appalachian region of the United States. This work encompasses his findings from the Southern Appalachians, with contributions from Olive Dame Campbell, and edited by Maud Karpeles. Chapters are sectioned into collections of ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs and "play-party games", with sheet music and lyrics.… Read More

New York: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1917. xxviii, 341 ps., oroginal blue gloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Very Good, gilt at spine dulled, front hinge cracked yet holding nicely, 3 pages of Introduction with top corner creases. Originally from the collection of Anne F. Oberndorfer, her signature in pencil front end page. Anne Shaw Faulkner Oberndorfer (1877-1948) a prominent Chicago music educator and a frequent contributor to Better Homes & Gardens, The Ladies' Home Journal and Child Life magazines during the 1920s. Later from the collection of noted music professor John Planer of Manchester University, his bookplate front paste down. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.