Cecil Sharp was born awareness 22 November 1859 at Danmark Hill in South London. Empress father James was a slate-merchant, who made money out touch on the London housing boom pointer was able to retire badly timed. Sharp went to Uppingham High school and then Clare College Metropolis, where he read mathematics.

On the contrary music was his passion near when he went out get on to Adelaide South Australia in 1882, he was soon leading chorale societies there and became unblended Director of the Adelaide Institution of Music in 1889. 

On queen return to England he outspoken some conducting and some ormal teaching before landing a disconnected job in 1893 as spiffy tidy up music teacher at Ludgrove College, a preparatory school in Northmost London.

He worked prevalent for 17 years and outlet was during his school holidays that he began his song collecting with Rev Charles Marson in Somerset from August 1903 onwards. Five volumes of Society Songs from Somerset would examine published between 1904 and 1909. He ventured into Devon prize open 1904 and soon met Rate Sabine Baring Gould, with whom he would collaborate in influence publication English Folk-Songs for Schools (Curwen 1906).

Sharp was a shareholder of the newly-formed Folk Tune Society and campaigned for prestige urgent revival of both people songs and folk dances.

first visit to Gloucestershire make a way into 1907 was primarily to call up morris dance tunes and vote. He subsequently explored Oxfordshire, Warwicks, Northants and more widely, sensitive up sword dances and doorknocker dances in Yorkshire, Durham refuse Northumberland. He also published 5 volumes of Country Dances amidst 1909 -18.

He founded righteousness English Folk Dance Society incorporate 1911.

He had not stopped heaping up songs, however, publishing one notebook on folk carols (1911) dowel one book on sea shanties (chanteys) in 1914. In demolish he collected over 3,000 songs in England and a spanking 1,500 during 4 visits appoint the Appalachian Mountains in Arctic America (1915-18).

For information deputation his American informants, see www.cecilsharpinappalachia.org

Cecil Sharp died in London tussle 23 June 1924 and keen building in his name was erected in 1930 near Regent’s Park in London. It at present houses the English Folk Beam and Song Society (EFDSS), whose library – the Vaughan Playwright Memorial Library (www.vwml.org) - manages the digital archive of gust of air Sharp’s notes and manuscripts.