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Cecil Sharp's collection of English folk songs / edited by Maud Karpeles.

M1740 .C43 1974 v.1-2

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Format:: Musical score
Contributor:: Sharp, Cecil J. (Cecil James), 1859-1924.; Karpeles, Maud, 1885-1976, editor.; Otto E. Albrecht Memorial Fund.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Folk songs, English--England.; Folk songs, English.; Folk music--England.; Folk music.; England.
Genre:: Folk music.; Folk songs.; Scores.
Physical Description:: 1 score (2 volumes) ; 24 cm
Other Title:: Collection of English folk songs
Place of Publication:: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1974.
Language Note:: Staff notation.
Contents:: Vol. 1: The lover's tasks (The elfin knight); The outlandish knight (Lady Isabel and the elf knight); The dragoon and the lady (Earl Brand); Lord Randal; The cruel mother; The banks of Green Willow (Bonnie Annie); The Broomfield wager (The Broomfield hill); The two magicians; Lord Bateman (Young Beichan); The cherry tree carol; King Herod and the cock (The carnal and the crane); Dives and Lazarus; Sir William Gower, or Captain Glen (Brown Robyn's confession); Lady Maisry; Lord Thomas and fair Ellinor; Fair Margaret and sweet William; Lord Lovel; The unquiet grave, or Cold blows the wind; Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard; Barbara Ellen (Bonny Barbara Allen); Giles Collins, or George Collins (Lady Alice); The lowlands of Holland (Bonny Bee Hom); Lamkin; The maid freed from the gallows, or The briery bush; Willie O Winsbury, or Lord Thomas of Winesberry; The bailiff's daughter of Islington; The knight and the shepherd's daughter; Blow away the morning dew, or The new mown hay (The baffled knight); Robin Hood and the tanner; Robin Hood and the pedlar (The bold pedlar and Robin Hood); Sir Hugh; The death of Queen Jane; The burglar (Archie O Cawfield); The gypsy laddie, or The wraggle taggle gypsies; Waly Waly (Jamie Douglas); Geordie; The green wedding (Katharine Jaffray); Henry Martin; Our goodman; Bar up the old door (Get up and bar the door); Ruggletan's daughter of Iero (The wife wrapt in wether's skin); The farmer's curst wife; The dirty beggarman (The jolly beggar); The coasts of high Barbary (The George Aloe and the sweepstake); The golden vanity; The mermaid; A sailor from Dover (The brown girl); The bold fisherman; Nancy of Yarmouth; Death and the lady; Shooting of his dear; The cruel ship's carpenter; A sailor by my right, or flame or fire; Still growing, or the trees they do grow high; Six Dukes, or The duke of Bedford; The Lake of Coulfin; The drowned lover; The nobleman's wedding, or All round my hat; The false bride, or The week before Easter; The three butchers; Bruton town; The constant farmer's son; Edwin in the lowlands low; James MacDonald; The miller's apprentice, or The Oxford girl; The Oxford murder; Floating down the tide; Mary in the silvery tide; Maria Martin; The jealous lover, or In Oxford city; The bold lieutenant, or The lion's den; The banks of Inverary; Young Barnswell; The blind beggar's daughter of Bethnal Green; The Turkish lady; The lost lady found; Bedlam; Arise, arise; The bonny lighter boy; The chain of gold; Betsy, or A glazier's daughter; Johnny Doyle; Daughter in the dungeon; Locks and bolts; Erin's lovely home; Rosetta and her gay ploughboy; Once I courted; Reilly sent to America; The rolling main; William and Phyllis; The miser's daughter, or The silk merchant's daughter; Said the father to the daughter, or Our ship she lies in harbour; The navvy lad; Searching for lambs; As I walked through the meadows; The shepherd and his fife; A farmer's son so sweet; The shepherdess and the sailor; Searching for young lambs, or A long and wishing eye; The sweet nightingale; Welcome in young shepherd, or The pleasant month of May; The rose in June, or Let it be early, late, or soon; Limady; The crystal spring; Master Kilby; The foggy dew; Forty long miles, or It rains, it hails; Seventeen come Sunday; Hares on the mountains, or Sally my dear; Dabbling in the dew; Gently Johnny my jingalo; Raking of hay; Ripest apples; Three maids a-milking; The brickster; Green broom; The green mossy banks of the Lee; Mowing the barley, or Lawyer Lee; The sign of the bonny blue bell; A cornish young man; My man John; The keys of Canterbury; My true love is lost; Farewell, lads and lasses; The first of May, or The month of May; The blackbird; Vol 1. (cont.): The Irish girl; Pretty miss, will you wed; Write me down ye powers above; The true lover's farewell, or The little turtle dove; High Germany, or The rout has now begun; High Germany, or The king's command must be obeyed; Pretty Sally; Adieu, my lovely Nancy; Pretty Nancy of London; British man of war; Farewell my dearest Nancy; Lisbon; Blackbirds and thrushes; Our captain cried all hands; Sweet Susan; Tarry trousers; The dark eyed sailor, or Phoebe and her dark eyed sailor; The broken token, or The young single sailor; Pretty Caroline; Faithful Nancy, or One fine summer's morning; Beautiful Nancy; The banks of Claudy; Mantle of Green, or Famed Waterloo; Sweet Jenny of the moor; The sailor from sea; The watchet sailor; The seeds of love, or The sprig of thyme; My bonny, bonny boy; Green bushes; A brisk young lover; Sheffield Park; The sweet primroses; A shoemaker courted me; The pride of Kildare; Early, early in the spring; Through the woods, or Down in the groves; The cuckoo; The Americans have stolen my true love away; The chaps of Cocaigny, or The boys of Kilkenny; I wish I had never known; The orange and blue, or Green grows the laurel; Once I had a sweetheart, or Sally sat a-weeping; Maids a-rushing, or Underneath her apron; The bold grenadier, or The nightingale; The sentry; The shannon side, or Captain Thunderbolt; Down by the riverside, or I am too young; As I walked out one May morning, or Tippling over the plain; No, my love, no I; Glastonbury town; Valentine's Day; Rosemary Lane, or The oak and the ash; The Hazelbury girl; Betsy Wilson, or Betsy Watson; At seventeen years of age; No sir, or O no John; Jack the jolly tar; Cold blow and a rainy night; The miller and the lass; Bibberly town, or The tinker behind the door; The devil's in the girl; The Liverpool landlady.; Vol. 2: The boatsman and the tailor; The cobbler and the butcher; The poor couple; Man from Dover; Will the weaver; The sea captain; Whistle, daughter, whistle; The fit's come on me now; The unmarried maiden's lament; My mother bid me; An old man he courted me; Never marry an old man; The holly twig; Robin a thrush; The brisk young bachelor; You bachelors you know, or You married men; The old man and his wife, or The drummer; A woman's work is never done; The rich old lady, or Johnny Sands; The Devonshire farmer's daughter, or The highwayman outwitted; Box upon her head, or The undaunted female; The crafty maid's policy; The banks of sweet Dundee; Sweet lovely Joan; Pretty Betsy the milkmaid, or Blackberry fold; William Taylor; The press gang, or In London fair city; Polly Oliver; The female cabin boy; The simple ploughboy, or The pretty ploughboy; The golden glove, or Dog and gun; Sovay sovay, or The female highwayman; Poor Nell and the chimney sweep; The councillor's daughter, or The lawyer outwitted; Sweet Kitty; The basket of eggs; Bung your eye; The oyster girl; Riding down to Portsmouth; The tarpaulin jacket, or The rakish young fellow; St. James's hospital, or The sailor cut down in his prime; Rosin the beau; My parents and I could never agree; The deserter; Fanny Blair; I kept a pack of hounds, or The broken-down gentleman; Adieu to old England, or Once I could ride in my coach; Botany bay; The isle of France; Van Diemen's land; Jack Hall; Jack Williams, or Boatman by my trade; Salisbury plain; The rigs of London town; The rambling boy, or In Newry city; Dick Turpin hero; Brennan on the moor; Captain Grant; John Barleycorn; It's a rosebud in June; The lark in the morn; A sweet country life; Two jolly brothers, or The jolly ploughboy; The painful plough; All jolly fellows that follow the plough; Sheep shearing; Once I was a shepherd boy; Shepherds are the best of men, or The stormy winds do blow; The jolly waggoner; The carter; Twankydillo; The nobleman and thresherman; The husbandman and serving man; Bingo; Sheep shearing toast, or Here's a health to the master; Sheep shearing toast, or We'll reap and mow; Horn, boys, horn or So selfish runs the mare; Bird starver's cry; The duke's hunting song; Bold Reynard the fox; The cheerful arn, or When bucks a-hunting go; Hunting the hare; The keeper; Thorney moor woods; The hearty poacher, or Hares and plantations; The sheep stealer; The hearty good fellow; The game of cards; Bold Robinson; Creeping Jane; The little dun mare; Bridgwater fair; Brimbledown fair; Bold Nelson's praise; Admiral Benbow; The bold princess royal; The Britannia and the Union; The Chesapeake and Shannon; The London man o' war, or The royal Delamore; Come all you bold Britons; Spanish ladies; Cape Horn; The wreck of the Ramilly; The Greenland fishery; The ship in distress; On board of a man of war o; The captain's apprentice; 'Tis I myself have done; Outward bound; The rambling sailor; The saucy sailor; The green bed; Sweet William; Marlborough; The bonny bunch of roses o; General Wolfe; Drink old England dry; A man that is stout; Come lovely comrades; The croppy boy; Dicky of Taunton Dene; Robin's courtship; Harry the tailor; Arthur Bradley O; Joan to Jan; My boy Willie, or Billy boy; The crabfish; Good old man; Robbie and Grannie; The mare and the foal; Midsummer fair; Gossip Joan; The three sons; The cobbler and the goose; The three cripples; The derby ram; As I was going to Banbury; Balaam and egg; James Morrell is dead; The foolish boy, or The swapping song; The frog and the mouse; Three jolly huntsmen; The carrion crow; The fox and the goose; The twelve days of Christmas; The barley mow; I had a little cock; Vol. 2 (cont.): Jolly old hawk; The mallard; One man shall mow my meadow; The tree in the wood; Dashing away with the smoothing iron, or Driving away with the smoothing iron; The farmyard, or The merry green fields; Joan's ale was new; The jolly shilling; The red herring; The virgin unspotted, or In Bethlehem city; On Christmas night, or On Christmas time; Nowell nowell; The holy day; Come all you true good Christians; Christmas now is drawing near; God rest you merry, gentlemen; The holly and the ivy; The joys of Mary; Our saviour's love; The leaves of life; When Jesus Christ had lived; The black decree; As I sat on a sunny bank, or I saw three ships; The holy well; The bitter withy; God made a trance; The sons of Levi; The truth sent from above; Come all you worthy Christians; Awake awake, or New year's carol; The moon shines bright; A happy new year; The man that lives; The sinner's redemption, or All you that are unto mirth inclined; The little room; The twelve apostles; Wassail song; Padstow May song; The streams of lovely Nancy; The sailor and the soldier; The beggar; Poor old horse; A brisk young widow; The acquittal of Thomas Halloran; Loch na Garr; The alderman's lady; A sailor from the north countree, or The sailor and his beautiful wife; Bonnets so blue; Just as the tide was a-flowing; A sailor courted a farmer's daughter; The orphan boy; The Sheffield apprentice; Sweet Europe; The American stranger; George Ridler's oven; Old woman lame and blind; Come all brother seamen; Baskets and chairs (Street cry); Lavender (Street cry); Young lambs (Street cry); Arise and pick a posy; Sing to me Johnny; Three little tailors; Dance to thee daddy; Bonny black hare; 'Twas in the month of August; The banks of the Clyde; T stands for Thomas, or J stands for Jack; A shepherd tuned his pipe, or The hermit; Sweetly William; Don't you go a-rushing; I sowed some seeds; Come give me a slice of your bread; The flowering fields, or The sprig of May; Have you seen my love pass by; My meadow for to mow; Navigation. .
Notes:: Unaccompanied melodies.; Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, pages 745-751; v. 2, p. 655-661) and index.
Local Notes:: Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Otto E. Albrecht Memorial Fund.
OCLC:: 23356409

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