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Individual Researchers

2011-01-18T17:59:30Z

MartinGraebe:

Please insert names in alphabetical order by surname and separate with a horizontal line.

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* John Adams

Retired academic, based in West Yorkshire, Manchester, UK, John Adams is involved with two research projects.

The Village Music Project - Director

The Common Genius Project incorporating The Paul Graney Archive

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* Martin Graebe

Researching the [[Sabine Baring-Gould]] collection.

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*Chris Partington

Lead researcher with the Village Music Project.

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Song

2009-10-22T19:09:06Z

MartinGraebe: Addition of DeanSmith bibliography

''Category Editor: Dr Vic Gammon''

There are many thousands of songs. There are many song collections and many versions of the same song. Where to start looking? That's the problem.

All songs currently in Folkopedia are listed on the [http://folkopedia.efdss.org/Category:Song Song Category Page]

Note. Our intention is not to restrict this initiative to English Song, but to use the present headings as a starting point to view whatever develops from wherever it comes.

==Traditional Songs by Theme==

It's often difficult to categorise a song. Is the song of a Thames Bargeman a sea song or an industrial one? Likewise a Fishing song. Many industrial or rural songs had a political dimension. It doesn't do to worry too much about it - the categories are really just a rough guide to get to something that fits the browser's interest and in the spirit of the Wiki might lead to somewhere altogether unexpected!
Some [[Song Books]] are arranged by theme.
Here are some of the common themes in folk song:

'''[[Songs of Love and Marriage]]''' ''romantic, unrequited, happy and unhappy wedlock, spinsters and batchelors, broken tokens''

'''[[Songs of Seduction]]''' ''brief, bawdy, passionate and tragic

'''[[Songs of Country Life]]''' ''millers, blacksmiths, cobblers''

'''[[Songs of Good Company]]''' ''drinking, carousing, conviviality''

'''[[Hunting and Poaching Songs]]''' ''the fox, the hare, transportation''

'''[[Sea Songs]]''' ''press gangs, men o' war, fishing & whaling, jack on shore''

'''[[Soldiers' Songs]]''' ''the king's shilling, bloody battles''

'''[[Songs of Comedy and Diversion]]''' ''comical tales, legendary animals, marvels''

'''[[Ritual Songs]]''' ''folk ceremonies, mummer's plays''

'''[[Songs of the Road]]''' ''travellers, gypsies and journeymen''

'''[[Political and Historical Songs]]''' ''rebellion, reform, great events''

'''[[Ballads]]'''

'''[[Children's Songs]]''' ''rhymes, game songs''

'''[[Songs of Heroes and Villains]]''' ''Highwaymen, scoundrels, and adventurers, real and fictitious''

'''[[Industrial Songs]]''' ''pits and mills''

==Traditional Singers==

==='''[[English Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[Scottish Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[Irish Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[North American Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[Australian Source Singers]]'''===

==Performance==
''section editor Chris Coe''

This is a tricky section to think of including. One doesn't always associate folk song and 'performance' but some of the techniques applied by the traditional singers can bear scrutiny, especially by those who want to sing the same sort of songs.

The intimate fireside delivery of [[Walter Pardon]].......

[[Lizzie Higgins]] taking a deep breath, expanding to be a 'giant' and setting forth..........

[[Johnny Doughty]] turning his cap sideways and singing the [[Herring's Head]].....

And any one who has seen [[Jock Duncan]] perform the [[Two Sisters]] will have a vivid understanding of song delivery with gestures....

Watch this space.

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 22:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

==Resources==

===Recordings===
====Commercially Available Recordings====
''Currently available or deleted''

* [[Kyloe Records]]
* [[Leader Records]]
* [[Musical Traditions Records]]
* [[Topic Records]]
* [[Veteran]]
* [[Wildgoose Records]]
* [[New World Records]]

=== Books & Bibliographies===
Books of and about folk songs abound and seem to increase at an exponential rate. It is ironic that computerisation and digitalisation, which make this site possible, also make it much easier and cheaper to publish new books. In addition, many rare and inaccessible books from the past have been scanned and placed on the web in recent years, which has helped more and more people to find songs and contribute to scholarship and discussion. Probably the most complete and recent listing of books is the one given immediately below. After that, there follows a short selection of some important books.

====Bibliographies====

[http://www.efdss.org/songbib3.pdf English Folk Song Bibliography: An Introductory Bibliography Based on the Holdings of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Third Edition, edited by David Atkinson]

* Margaret Dean-Smith, ''A guide to English Folk Song Collections 1822 - 1952'', Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool, in Association with EFDSS (1954) - An earlier attempt at a bibliography but with substantial descriptions and publishing details of the books as well as an alphabetical index of the songs included in these collections. Still a valuable reference - particularly when used in conjunction with the Roud index.

====Books====

Probably the most important thing to know is what is available and in print now. The most up to date list is probably to be found at the [http://www.tradsong.org Traditional Song Forum web site] in the form of a list by publisher Dave Herron. Look on the [http://www.tradsong.org/Library.htm library pages] for Dave Herron's Chapbook.

Below is the place to put detail of ALL the folksong books that ever there were.

* [[Books before 1900]]

* [[Song Books]]

* [[Folk Song Scholarship]]

===Indexes===

* The [[Vaughan Williams Memorial Library]] [http://library.efdss.org online index] including
** [[Cecil Sharp]]
** [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]
** [[Maud Karpeles]]
** [[Lucy Broadwood]]
** [[H.E.D. Hammond]]
** [[Francis Collinson]]
** [[George Gardiner]]
** [[Percy Grainger]]

* [[Francis J Child]]

The site also gives you access to the [http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/textpage.cgi?file=aboutRoud&access=off Roud Index], compiled by Steve Roud.

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of 143,000+ references to songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.<br/>It is the most important finding aid for traditional song ever compiled, and not even the most casual researcher can afford to do without it.

Talk:Books before 1900

2009-10-22T18:54:53Z

MartinGraebe:

Lucy Broadwood's "English Traditional Songs and Carols" has been submitted in this category. However, as is quite correctly shown, it was not published until 1908. The date of collection of the songs is a secondary factor, as the category title makes it quite clear that the deciding criterion is the actual date of publication. In the circumstances in my opinion this book should correctly be allocated to the post-1900 section.
--[[User:Irene Shettle|Irene Shettle]] 03:31, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

That's a fair point. I would suggest putting it in the pre 1900 section with the inclusion of a phrase like "...although not published until 1908, the contents relate to 19th findings" or something like that.

In addition, I think that the date divisions need revisiting to consider how to cope with anomalies like this.
--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 12:57, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I wonder if a date division of this sort is actually justified, as it isn't related to a specific event or change in the collecting world that I'm aware of ? You might just as well use the 1914 date (which was used at the Folklife conference in Sheffield recently to denote just such a specific change in the world in general). Why not pre-1850, or pre-1800 books if you're going to do it in the current way etc etc? I would have thought that a listing of books, by date order of publication might be a more natural way of organising it without imposing an artifical date divide.... just MHO, of course (and my library working days are well and truly long past and gone, so regret I have no idea what classification rules would apply here!)
--[[User:Irene Shettle|Irene Shettle]] 01:42, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Has this issue been resolved? I am delaying adding further titles until it is a bit clearer. I would have thought that publication date was the criterion. Pre 1914 works for me. I would like to see book titles entered in date order and then using the standard refernce format. At present there is a big difference in presentation between the two date divisions. Why not just copy Margaret Dean Smith's entries in here? Martin

Devon

2009-10-21T19:46:17Z

MartinGraebe:

===Books===

* ''Nummits and Crummits - Devonshire Customs, Characteristics, and Folk-lore'' Sarah Hewitt 1900 Thomas Burleigh, (London) and 1976 EP Publishing (Wakefield)

===Organisations===

Wren Music - Okehampton [http://www.wrenmusic.co.uk/ web site]]

Dartington College - houses the [[Doreen Senior]] Folk Archive [http://www.dartington.org/archive/display/DS]

Torbay Museum - houses the Charles Laycock collection of items related to Devonshire life [http://www.dartington.org/archive/display/DS] and the surviving volume of songs that were collected by him in Devon.

===Collectors===

[[Sabine Baring-Gould]]

[[Cecil Sharp]]

[[Charles Laycock]]

[[Doreen Senior]]

Charles Laycock

2009-10-21T19:45:38Z

MartinGraebe:

===Charles Hey Laycock (1879 - 1943)===

Charles Laycock loved [[Devon]] and Devon ways. He lived in Moretonhampstead, on the Eastern edge of Dartmoor. His collection of articles used in old farm houses formed the nucleus for the collection now held by Torquay Natural History Society in a purpose-built gallery in Torquay museum. He collected folk songs in the county and two volumes of these too were left to the Museum when he died. Sadly, one volume has gone missing. He was a competent musician and singer and is believed to have written a number of Devonshire dialect songs under a pseudonym.

[More to be added, plus photos - Martin Graebe, Oct 2009]

Charles Laycock

2009-10-21T19:45:19Z

MartinGraebe:

===Charles Hey Laycock (1879 - 1943)===

Charles Laycock loved [[Devon]] and Devon ways. He lived in Moretonhampstead, on the Eastern edge of Dartmoor. His collection of articles used in old farm houses formed the nucleus for the collection now held by Torquat Natural History Society in a purpose-built gallery in Torquay museum. He collected folk songs in the county and two volumes of these too were left to the Museum when he died. Sadly, one volume has gone missing. He was a competent musician and singer and is believed to have written a number of Devonshire dialect songs under a pseudonym.

[More to be added, plus photos - Martin Graebe, Oct 2009]

Charles Laycock

2009-10-21T19:44:54Z

MartinGraebe: Created page with '===Charles Hey Laycock (1879 - 1943)=== Charles Laycock loved Devon and Devon ways. He lived in Moretonhampstead, on the Eastern edge of Dartmoor. His collection of articles use…'

===Charles Hey Laycock (1879 - 1943)===

Charles Laycock loved Devon and Devon ways. He lived in Moretonhampstead, on the Eastern edge of Dartmoor. His collection of articles used in old farm houses formed the nucleus for the collection now held by Torquat Natural History Society in a purpose-built gallery in Torquay museum. He collected folk songs in the county and two volumes of these too were left to the Museum when he died. Sadly, one volume has gone missing. He was a competent musician and singer and is believed to have written a number of Devonshire dialect songs under a pseudonym.

[More to be added, plus photos - Martin Graebe, Oct 2009]

Doreen Senior

2009-10-21T19:36:46Z

MartinGraebe:

===Doreen Horn Senior===

Though she was for a long time associated with [[Devon]] in her role as a County Music Organiser, Doreen Senior is best remembered for her pioneering collecting work in Nova Scotia with Helen Creighton. She spent 5 summers, starting in 1935, travelling with Creighton into remote parts of the province in search of singers and songs. Their work together resulted in a number of publications.

[more (including photo) to be added - Martin Graebe, Oct 2009]

Doreen Senior

2009-10-21T19:36:13Z

MartinGraebe:

===Doreen Horn Senior===

Though she was for a long time associated with [Devon] in her role as a County Music Organiser, Doreen Senior is best remembered for her pioneering collecting work in Nova Scotia with Helen Creighton. She spent 5 summers, starting in 1935, travelling with Creighton into remote parts of the province in search of singers and songs. Their work together resulted in a number of publications.

[more (including photo) to be added - Martin Graebe, Oct 2009]

Doreen Senior

2009-10-21T19:35:50Z

MartinGraebe:

===Doreen Horn Senior===

Though she was for a long time associated with Devon in her role as a County Music Organiser, Doreen Senior is best remembered for her pioneering collecting work in Nova Scotia with Helen Creighton. She spent 5 summers, starting in 1935, travelling with Creighton into remote parts of the province in search of singers and songs. Their work together resulted in a number of publications.

[more (including photo) to be added - Martin Graebe, Oct 2009]

Doreen Senior

2009-10-21T19:35:29Z

MartinGraebe: new section

Devon

2009-10-21T19:27:11Z

MartinGraebe:

===Books===

* ''Nummits and Crummits - Devonshire Customs, Characteristics, and Folk-lore'' Sarah Hewitt 1900 Thomas Burleigh, (London) and 1976 EP Publishing (Wakefield)

===Organisations===

Wren Music - Okehampton [http://www.wrenmusic.co.uk/ web site]]

Dartington College - houses the [[Doreen Senior]] Folk Archive [http://www.dartington.org/archive/display/DS]

Torbay Museum - houses the Charles Laycock collectuion of items related to Devonshire life [http://www.dartington.org/archive/display/DS] and the surviving volume of songs that were collected by him in Devon.

===Collectors===

[[Sabine Baring-Gould]]

[[Cecil Sharp]]

[[Charles Laycock]]

[[Doreen Senior]]

Devon

2009-10-21T19:21:28Z

MartinGraebe:

Devon

2009-10-21T19:15:57Z

MartinGraebe:

Cornwall

2009-10-21T19:08:06Z

MartinGraebe:

===Seasonal Events===

May Bank Holiday [[Black Prince Flower Boat]] at Millbrook, Kingsand and Cawsand on the Cornish side of Plymouth Sound - ie. the Rame Peninsula.

[[Padstow 'Obby 'Oss]] on [[May Day]] in Padstow on the North Cornish Coast.

===Collectors===

[[Sabine Baring-Gould]]

Cornwall

2009-10-21T19:07:24Z

MartinGraebe: Added 'Collectors' and link for SBG

Devon

2009-10-21T19:04:06Z

MartinGraebe: Corrected link to SBG

Sabine Baring-Gould

2009-10-21T18:58:02Z

MartinGraebe: added Devon Tradition Project website

'''Sabine Baring-Gould''', Squire, Parson, Hagiographer, Antiquarian, Philologist, Archaeologist, Architect, Writer, Folklorist and Song Collector. Born Exeter, 28 Jan 1834; died Lewtrenchard, Devon, 2 Jan 1924.

Essentially self taught, Baring-Gould managed to scrape through a degree at Cambridge. After several years as a teacher at St. Johns College, Hurstpierpoint, Baring-Gould was ordained in 1864. On his father’s death in 1872 he inherited the family estates at Lewtrenchard, where he became rector in 1881, as well as becoming the Squire and serving as a Justice of the Peace. He travelled widely and wrote extensively on both theological and more general topics.

He was the author of the words of many well-known hymns, Onward, Christian Soldiers being the best known example.

Baring-Gould was also a pioneer in the collection of English folksong: between 1888 and 1891 he published 110 songs, transcribed from performances by singers in [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]], as ''Songs and Ballads of the West''. This collection was made jointly with the Rev. H.Fleetwood Sheppard, the Rector of Thurnscoe in Yorkshire and Dr. Frederick Bussell, later to become Vice-Principal at Brasenose College, Oxford. Baring-Gould and Sheppard also collaborated on ''A Garland of Country Song'' (1895) and ''English Minstrelsie'' (1895–6). For the 1905 revision of ''Songs of the West'' [[Cecil Sharp]] replaced Sheppard as Musical Editor,

Baring-Gould has been criticised for his bowdlerisation - indeed, in some cases, rewriting - of many of the songs that he collected. It is worth remembering that he was working with a mainstream publisher [[Methuen]] for a primarily middle class audience. Inclusion of some of the sexually explicit material was not an option.

As a collector of songs directly from the mouths of singers he was preceded in England only by [[John Broadwood]] whose ''Sussex Songs'' was published for private circulation in 1843. Baring-Gould and Sheppard's folk song publications came before those of [[W.A. Barrett]] (1891), [[Frank Kidson]] (1891), [[John Stokoe]] (1892), and [[Lucy Broadwood]] & [[J.A. Fuller Maitland]] (1893). Between 1903 and 1907 Sharp visited Baring-Gould on a number of occasions, at first to seek his advice on folk song collecting, and then to collaborate on the revision of ''Songs of the West' (1905) and on the production of ''English Folk Songs for Schools'' (1906). Baring-Gould was the first collector to provide detailed notes on the origin of the songs he collected and to document the people form whom he had heard the songs. He also corresponded with [[Francis Child]] and provided a number of ballads for inclusion in Child's ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads]]

Recognising the interest that future generations might have in the songs that he collected, in the form in which they were collected, Baring-Gould left a considerable collection of his notebooks and fair copies as well as other material which is proving of great value in undersytanding his life and work better.

[[Image:sbglogo.jpg]]

'''A Short Note on a Long Life'''

100 years ago the first part of a wholly remarkable book was published. That book was "Songs and Ballads of the West" and had as it's subtitle "A collection made from the mouths of the people by the Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A., and the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppards, M.A.". Sabine Baring Gould was the Squire and Parson of the parish of Lewtrenchard in West Devon. He was also a scholar, antiquarian, collector and a prolific author of both fiction and non fiction: a man who was, in many ways, out of step with the rest of his generation.

Baring Gould was born in Exeter in 1834 to a father whose career with the East India Company had been cut short by a carriage accident. His childhood was unsettled since his father preferred to escape the boredom of England by travelling through Europe for the greater part of the year. This meant that Baring Gould had little formal schooling but this did not prevent him from scraping through Cambridge, though he could never get to grips with the mathematics that would have been essential to achieving his father’s expectation that he become and engineer. His unconventional views and behaviour were obvious even then and he was a persistent critic of the establishment (particularly that of the church) throughout his life. His romantic nature drew him towards the ritual of the Anglican ‘High Church’ and to the Norse sagas. Having been forbidden by his father to enter the church he took up teaching for several years until, when he was thirty, his father finally relented and he entered the church.

He became a curate at Horbury in Yorkshire where he was given the task of founding a mission to the mill-workers and canal people. His time here was marked by three key events. The writing of his most famous hymn, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, The publication of his first collected folk song and his marriage to a teenage mill-girl with whom he had fallen deeply in love. The love endured and in the forty-eight years until Grace Baring-Gould died they had 15 children.

His career took him shortly before his marriage in 1868, to a parish of his own at Dalton in North Yorkshire and then to East Mersea In Essex. It wasn’t until 1881 that Baring Gould was able to settle in Devon where he became responsible for the welfare of the few hundred people that lived in his parish and his manor. This left him time to spare for travelling regularly as he had when he was a boy, for raising his large family, for renovating his house and his church and for writing the astonishing number of books, pamphlets and magazine articles that actually paid for these other activities. The current estimate of publications, including books, hymns and magazine articles is at least 1200. To most people who have heard his name it is as the writer of a favourite hymn probably "Onward Christian Soldiers", but of all the achievements of his 90 years on this Earth, he himself rated most highly that of collecting the folk songs which were published as "Songs of the West".

He worked on the collection for 12 years and travelled hundreds of miles though Devon and Cornwall to visit the old singers in their homes, their pubs and in the fields. He was not, himself, a good musician and was helped in his work by two other men, Dr Fredrick Bussell and the Reverend H W Fleetwood Sheppard. When time permitted, one or other would join Baring Gould on his visits and take down the melodies while Baring Gould noted down the words. Baring Gould could not, in his era, have published the songs as recovered since they were too robust for Victorian ears. Rather than publish with blank spaces or dotted lines as some other collectors chose to do, Sabine took the course of modifying the words where necessary. He has been criticised for this over the years but it is hard, in reality, to see what other course of action was open to him.
It was originally intended that ‘Songs and Ballads of the West’ would be published in three parts but, in fact, it ran to four. It was not, of course, the first book about folk songs since there had been several collections of ballads published in the 17th and 18th century. It was not even the first book of songs collected directly from the singers since the Reverend John Broadwood had published his Sussex Songs privately in 1843. It was, however, the most ambitious collection made to that date and the book set the pattern for the first folk revival at the end of the last century. The conventions devised by Baring Gould were to become the standard practice and, in particular, his recognition that the songs were linked to individual singers who were usually identified in the text. This, coupled with the way he writes about his singers as friends, if not actually equals, is what is special about Baring Gould.

That first edition was written with Fleetwood Sheppard as musical editor and the majority of arrangements in the book were Sheppard’s creations, many of them very elaborate. Baring-Gould and Sheppard also produced a second collection, ‘A Garland of Country Song’ in 1895. A new edition of ‘Songs of the West’, published in 1905, was very different to the first since Cecil Sharp took over the musical editorship with a number of new arrangements replacing those by Sheppard.

For a few years at the beginning of the century Sharp and Baring Gould worked closely together and Sharp was a regular visitor to Lewtrenchard. As well as ‘Songs of the West’ they produced "English Folk Songs for Schools" in 1907 and in the same year Sharp dedicated his "English Folk Song some conclusions" to Baring Gould. What exactly caused their friendship to fade is unclear but Baring Gould's references to Sharp in later years became less flattering. He certainly believed that Sharp's arrangements were not generally as good as Sheppard's. It is also likely that he was unhappy that Sharp had gained the reputation as the man who saved English Folk Song and that his own part in the first revival had been overlooked.

Baring Gould died in 1924 at Lewtrenchard, a few days short of his 90th birthday. He was buried in his own churchyard just across the road from his house. He is still remembered fondly in Lewtrenchard and West Devon. To Folk Revival singers in England he has left a legacy that will be a source of joy for centuries to come.

Martin Graebe

== External links ==
[http://www.sbgsongs.org/ 'Songs of the West' Sabine Baring-Gould and the folk songs of South-West England] - site maintained by [[Martin Graebe]]. This site has been completely rebuilt and will continue to be worked on to add further material in the coming months.

[http://folk-network.com/miscellany/baring_gould/baring-gould.html Essay on English Folk-Music] - from volume VII of Baring-Gould's ''English Minstrelsie: a National Monument of English Song''.

[http://www.sbgas.org The website of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society] Contains a growing collection of articles about Baring-Gould from the Society's newsletter, reflecting the broader sweep of his life.

[http://www.devontradition.org The Devon Tradition Project] Website for the project which is working to digitise the Baring-Gould song archives and place copies on-line

== References ==
Brenda Colloms, ‘Gould, Sabine Baring- (1834–1924)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30587

Bernarr Rainbow: 'Baring-Gould, Sabine', [[Grove Music Online]] ed. L. Macy, http://www.grovemusic.com

Martin Graebe: 'Devon by Dog Cart and Bicycle: The Folk Song Collaboration of Sabine Baring-Gould and Cecil Sharp, 1904-17', Folk Music Journal, Vol. 9 No. 3 (2008), p. 292-348

== Publications ==

Baring-Gould was an astonishingly prolific writer. His bibliographer, Roger Bristow, currently places the number of publications that he had to his name at more than 1,240. For a short list of his folk music books go to [http://www.sbgsongs.org]

[[Category:Collector]]

Sabine Baring-Gould

2009-10-21T18:10:21Z

MartinGraebe: Additions, modifications and corrections to summary

'''Sabine Baring-Gould''', Squire, Parson, Hagiographer, Antiquarian, Philologist, Archaeologist, Architect, Writer, Folklorist and Song Collector. Born Exeter, 28 Jan 1834; died Lewtrenchard, Devon, 2 Jan 1924.

Essentially self taught, Baring-Gould managed to scrape through a degree at Cambridge. After several years as a teacher at St. Johns College, Hurstpierpoint, Baring-Gould was ordained in 1864. On his father’s death in 1872 he inherited the family estates at Lewtrenchard, where he became rector in 1881, as well as becoming the Squire and serving as a Justice of the Peace. He travelled widely and wrote extensively on both theological and more general topics.

He was the author of the words of many well-known hymns, Onward, Christian Soldiers being the best known example.

Baring-Gould was also a pioneer in the collection of English folksong: between 1888 and 1891 he published 110 songs, transcribed from performances by singers in [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]], as ''Songs and Ballads of the West''. This collection was made jointly with the Rev. H.Fleetwood Sheppard, the Rector of Thurnscoe in Yorkshire and Dr. Frederick Bussell, later to become Vice-Principal at Brasenose College, Oxford. Baring-Gould and Sheppard also collaborated on ''A Garland of Country Song'' (1895) and ''English Minstrelsie'' (1895–6). For the 1905 revision of ''Songs of the West'' [[Cecil Sharp]] replaced Sheppard as Musical Editor,

Baring-Gould has been criticised for his bowdlerisation - indeed, in some cases, rewriting - of many of the songs that he collected. It is worth remembering that he was working with a mainstream publisher [[Methuen]] for a primarily middle class audience. Inclusion of some of the sexually explicit material was not an option.

As a collector of songs directly from the mouths of singers he was preceded in England only by [[John Broadwood]] whose ''Sussex Songs'' was published for private circulation in 1843. Baring-Gould and Sheppard's folk song publications came before those of [[W.A. Barrett]] (1891), [[Frank Kidson]] (1891), [[John Stokoe]] (1892), and [[Lucy Broadwood]] & [[J.A. Fuller Maitland]] (1893). Between 1903 and 1907 Sharp visited Baring-Gould on a number of occasions, at first to seek his advice on folk song collecting, and then to collaborate on the revision of ''Songs of the West' (1905) and on the production of ''English Folk Songs for Schools'' (1906). Baring-Gould was the first collector to provide detailed notes on the origin of the songs he collected and to document the people form whom he had heard the songs. He also corresponded with [[Francis Child]] and provided a number of ballads for inclusion in Child's ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads]]

Recognising the interest that future generations might have in the songs that he collected, in the form in which they were collected, Baring-Gould left a considerable collection of his notebooks and fair copies as well as other material which is proving of great value in undersytanding his life and work better.

[[Image:sbglogo.jpg]]

'''A Short Note on a Long Life'''

100 years ago the first part of a wholly remarkable book was published. That book was "Songs and Ballads of the West" and had as it's subtitle "A collection made from the mouths of the people by the Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A., and the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppards, M.A.". Sabine Baring Gould was the Squire and Parson of the parish of Lewtrenchard in West Devon. He was also a scholar, antiquarian, collector and a prolific author of both fiction and non fiction: a man who was, in many ways, out of step with the rest of his generation.

Baring Gould was born in Exeter in 1834 to a father whose career with the East India Company had been cut short by a carriage accident. His childhood was unsettled since his father preferred to escape the boredom of England by travelling through Europe for the greater part of the year. This meant that Baring Gould had little formal schooling but this did not prevent him from scraping through Cambridge, though he could never get to grips with the mathematics that would have been essential to achieving his father’s expectation that he become and engineer. His unconventional views and behaviour were obvious even then and he was a persistent critic of the establishment (particularly that of the church) throughout his life. His romantic nature drew him towards the ritual of the Anglican ‘High Church’ and to the Norse sagas. Having been forbidden by his father to enter the church he took up teaching for several years until, when he was thirty, his father finally relented and he entered the church.

He became a curate at Horbury in Yorkshire where he was given the task of founding a mission to the mill-workers and canal people. His time here was marked by three key events. The writing of his most famous hymn, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, The publication of his first collected folk song and his marriage to a teenage mill-girl with whom he had fallen deeply in love. The love endured and in the forty-eight years until Grace Baring-Gould died they had 15 children.

His career took him shortly before his marriage in 1868, to a parish of his own at Dalton in North Yorkshire and then to East Mersea In Essex. It wasn’t until 1881 that Baring Gould was able to settle in Devon where he became responsible for the welfare of the few hundred people that lived in his parish and his manor. This left him time to spare for travelling regularly as he had when he was a boy, for raising his large family, for renovating his house and his church and for writing the astonishing number of books, pamphlets and magazine articles that actually paid for these other activities. The current estimate of publications, including books, hymns and magazine articles is at least 1200. To most people who have heard his name it is as the writer of a favourite hymn probably "Onward Christian Soldiers", but of all the achievements of his 90 years on this Earth, he himself rated most highly that of collecting the folk songs which were published as "Songs of the West".

He worked on the collection for 12 years and travelled hundreds of miles though Devon and Cornwall to visit the old singers in their homes, their pubs and in the fields. He was not, himself, a good musician and was helped in his work by two other men, Dr Fredrick Bussell and the Reverend H W Fleetwood Sheppard. When time permitted, one or other would join Baring Gould on his visits and take down the melodies while Baring Gould noted down the words. Baring Gould could not, in his era, have published the songs as recovered since they were too robust for Victorian ears. Rather than publish with blank spaces or dotted lines as some other collectors chose to do, Sabine took the course of modifying the words where necessary. He has been criticised for this over the years but it is hard, in reality, to see what other course of action was open to him.
It was originally intended that ‘Songs and Ballads of the West’ would be published in three parts but, in fact, it ran to four. It was not, of course, the first book about folk songs since there had been several collections of ballads published in the 17th and 18th century. It was not even the first book of songs collected directly from the singers since the Reverend John Broadwood had published his Sussex Songs privately in 1843. It was, however, the most ambitious collection made to that date and the book set the pattern for the first folk revival at the end of the last century. The conventions devised by Baring Gould were to become the standard practice and, in particular, his recognition that the songs were linked to individual singers who were usually identified in the text. This, coupled with the way he writes about his singers as friends, if not actually equals, is what is special about Baring Gould.

That first edition was written with Fleetwood Sheppard as musical editor and the majority of arrangements in the book were Sheppard’s creations, many of them very elaborate. Baring-Gould and Sheppard also produced a second collection, ‘A Garland of Country Song’ in 1895. A new edition of ‘Songs of the West’, published in 1905, was very different to the first since Cecil Sharp took over the musical editorship with a number of new arrangements replacing those by Sheppard.

For a few years at the beginning of the century Sharp and Baring Gould worked closely together and Sharp was a regular visitor to Lewtrenchard. As well as ‘Songs of the West’ they produced "English Folk Songs for Schools" in 1907 and in the same year Sharp dedicated his "English Folk Song some conclusions" to Baring Gould. What exactly caused their friendship to fade is unclear but Baring Gould's references to Sharp in later years became less flattering. He certainly believed that Sharp's arrangements were not generally as good as Sheppard's. It is also likely that he was unhappy that Sharp had gained the reputation as the man who saved English Folk Song and that his own part in the first revival had been overlooked.

Baring Gould died in 1924 at Lewtrenchard, a few days short of his 90th birthday. He was buried in his own churchyard just across the road from his house. He is still remembered fondly in Lewtrenchard and West Devon. To Folk Revival singers in England he has left a legacy that will be a source of joy for centuries to come.

Martin Graebe

== External links ==
[http://www.sbgsongs.org/ 'Songs of the West' Sabine Baring-Gould and the folk songs of South-West England] - site maintained by [[Martin Graebe]]. This site has been completely rebuilt and will continue to be worked on to add further material in the coming months.

[http://folk-network.com/miscellany/baring_gould/baring-gould.html Essay on English Folk-Music] - from volume VII of Baring-Gould's ''English Minstrelsie: a National Monument of English Song''.

[http://www.sbgas.org The website of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society] Contains a growing collection of articles about Baring-Gould from the Society's newsletter, reflecting the broader sweep of his life.

== References ==
Brenda Colloms, ‘Gould, Sabine Baring- (1834–1924)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30587

Bernarr Rainbow: 'Baring-Gould, Sabine', [[Grove Music Online]] ed. L. Macy, http://www.grovemusic.com

Martin Graebe: 'Devon by Dog Cart and Bicycle: The Folk Song Collaboration of Sabine Baring-Gould and Cecil Sharp, 1904-17', Folk Music Journal, Vol. 9 No. 3 (2008), p. 292-348

== Publications ==

Baring-Gould was an astonishingly prolific writer. His bibliographer, Roger Bristow, currently places the number of publications that he had to his name at more than 1,240. For a short list of his folk music books go to [http://www.sbgsongs.org]

[[Category:Collector]]

Sabine Baring-Gould

2009-10-21T18:08:41Z

MartinGraebe: Additions, modifications and corrections to summary

'''Sabine Baring-Gould''', Squire, Parson, Hagiographer, Antiquarian, Philologist, Archaeologist, Architect, Writer, Folklorist and Song Collector. Born Exeter, 28 Jan 1834; died Lewtrenchard, Devon, 2 Jan 1924.

Essentially self taught, Baring-Gould managed to scrape through a degree at Cambridge, After several years as a teacher at St. Johns College, Hurstpierpoint Baring-Gould was ordained in 1864. On his father’s death in 1872 he inherited the family estates at Lewtrenchard, where he became rector in 1881, wher he became Squire and served as a Justice of the Peace. He travelled widely and wrote extensively on both theological and more general topics.

He was the author of the words of many well-known hymns, Onward, Christian Soldiers being the best known example.

Baring-Gould was also a pioneer in the collection of English folksong: between 1888 and 1891 he published 110 songs, transcribed from performances by singers in [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]], as ''Songs and Ballads of the West''. This collection was made jointly with the Rev. H.Fleetwood Sheppard, the Rector of Thurnscoe in Yorkshire and Dr. Frederick Bussell, later to become Vice-Principal at Brasenose College, Oxford. Baring-Gould and Sheppard also collaborated on ''A Garland of Country Song'' (1895) and ''English Minstrelsie'' (1895–6). For the 1905 revision of ''Songs of the West'' [[Cecil Sharp]] replaced Sheppard as Musical Editor,

Baring-Gould has been criticised for his bowdlerisation - indeed, in some cases, rewriting - of many of the songs that he collected. It is worth remembering that he was working with a mainstream publisher [[Methuen]] for a primarily middle class audience. Inclusion of some of the sexually explicit material was not an option.

As a collector of songs directly from the mouths of singers he was preceded in England only by [[John Broadwood]] whose ''Sussex Songs'' was published for private circulation in 1843. Baring-Gould and Sheppard's folk song publications came before those of [[W.A. Barrett]] (1891), [[Frank Kidson]] (1891), [[John Stokoe]] (1892), and [[Lucy Broadwood]] & [[J.A. Fuller Maitland]] (1893). Between 1903 and 1907 Sharp visited Baring-Gould on a number of occasions, at first to seek his advice on folk song collecting, and then to collaborate on the revision of ''Songs of the West' (1905) and on the production of ''English Folk Songs for Schools'' (1906). Baring-Gould was the first collector to provide detailed notes on the origin of the songs he collected and to document the people form whom he had heard the songs. He also corresponded with [[Francis Child]] and provided a number of ballads for inclusion in Child's ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads]]

Recognising the interest that future generations might have in the songs that he collected, in the form in which they were collected, Baring-Gould left a considerable collection of his notebooks and fair copies as well as other material which is proving of great value in undersytanding his life and work better.

[[Image:sbglogo.jpg]]

'''A Short Note on a Long Life'''

100 years ago the first part of a wholly remarkable book was published. That book was "Songs and Ballads of the West" and had as it's subtitle "A collection made from the mouths of the people by the Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A., and the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppards, M.A.". Sabine Baring Gould was the Squire and Parson of the parish of Lewtrenchard in West Devon. He was also a scholar, antiquarian, collector and a prolific author of both fiction and non fiction: a man who was, in many ways, out of step with the rest of his generation.

Baring Gould was born in Exeter in 1834 to a father whose career with the East India Company had been cut short by a carriage accident. His childhood was unsettled since his father preferred to escape the boredom of England by travelling through Europe for the greater part of the year. This meant that Baring Gould had little formal schooling but this did not prevent him from scraping through Cambridge, though he could never get to grips with the mathematics that would have been essential to achieving his father’s expectation that he become and engineer. His unconventional views and behaviour were obvious even then and he was a persistent critic of the establishment (particularly that of the church) throughout his life. His romantic nature drew him towards the ritual of the Anglican ‘High Church’ and to the Norse sagas. Having been forbidden by his father to enter the church he took up teaching for several years until, when he was thirty, his father finally relented and he entered the church.

He became a curate at Horbury in Yorkshire where he was given the task of founding a mission to the mill-workers and canal people. His time here was marked by three key events. The writing of his most famous hymn, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, The publication of his first collected folk song and his marriage to a teenage mill-girl with whom he had fallen deeply in love. The love endured and in the forty-eight years until Grace Baring-Gould died they had 15 children.

His career took him shortly before his marriage in 1868, to a parish of his own at Dalton in North Yorkshire and then to East Mersea In Essex. It wasn’t until 1881 that Baring Gould was able to settle in Devon where he became responsible for the welfare of the few hundred people that lived in his parish and his manor. This left him time to spare for travelling regularly as he had when he was a boy, for raising his large family, for renovating his house and his church and for writing the astonishing number of books, pamphlets and magazine articles that actually paid for these other activities. The current estimate of publications, including books, hymns and magazine articles is at least 1200. To most people who have heard his name it is as the writer of a favourite hymn probably "Onward Christian Soldiers", but of all the achievements of his 90 years on this Earth, he himself rated most highly that of collecting the folk songs which were published as "Songs of the West".

He worked on the collection for 12 years and travelled hundreds of miles though Devon and Cornwall to visit the old singers in their homes, their pubs and in the fields. He was not, himself, a good musician and was helped in his work by two other men, Dr Fredrick Bussell and the Reverend H W Fleetwood Sheppard. When time permitted, one or other would join Baring Gould on his visits and take down the melodies while Baring Gould noted down the words. Baring Gould could not, in his era, have published the songs as recovered since they were too robust for Victorian ears. Rather than publish with blank spaces or dotted lines as some other collectors chose to do, Sabine took the course of modifying the words where necessary. He has been criticised for this over the years but it is hard, in reality, to see what other course of action was open to him.
It was originally intended that ‘Songs and Ballads of the West’ would be published in three parts but, in fact, it ran to four. It was not, of course, the first book about folk songs since there had been several collections of ballads published in the 17th and 18th century. It was not even the first book of songs collected directly from the singers since the Reverend John Broadwood had published his Sussex Songs privately in 1843. It was, however, the most ambitious collection made to that date and the book set the pattern for the first folk revival at the end of the last century. The conventions devised by Baring Gould were to become the standard practice and, in particular, his recognition that the songs were linked to individual singers who were usually identified in the text. This, coupled with the way he writes about his singers as friends, if not actually equals, is what is special about Baring Gould.

That first edition was written with Fleetwood Sheppard as musical editor and the majority of arrangements in the book were Sheppard’s creations, many of them very elaborate. Baring-Gould and Sheppard also produced a second collection, ‘A Garland of Country Song’ in 1895. A new edition of ‘Songs of the West’, published in 1905, was very different to the first since Cecil Sharp took over the musical editorship with a number of new arrangements replacing those by Sheppard.

For a few years at the beginning of the century Sharp and Baring Gould worked closely together and Sharp was a regular visitor to Lewtrenchard. As well as ‘Songs of the West’ they produced "English Folk Songs for Schools" in 1907 and in the same year Sharp dedicated his "English Folk Song some conclusions" to Baring Gould. What exactly caused their friendship to fade is unclear but Baring Gould's references to Sharp in later years became less flattering. He certainly believed that Sharp's arrangements were not generally as good as Sheppard's. It is also likely that he was unhappy that Sharp had gained the reputation as the man who saved English Folk Song and that his own part in the first revival had been overlooked.

Baring Gould died in 1924 at Lewtrenchard, a few days short of his 90th birthday. He was buried in his own churchyard just across the road from his house. He is still remembered fondly in Lewtrenchard and West Devon. To Folk Revival singers in England he has left a legacy that will be a source of joy for centuries to come.

Martin Graebe

== External links ==
[http://www.sbgsongs.org/ 'Songs of the West' Sabine Baring-Gould and the folk songs of South-West England] - site maintained by [[Martin Graebe]]. This site has been completely rebuilt and will continue to be worked on to add further material in the coming months.

[http://folk-network.com/miscellany/baring_gould/baring-gould.html Essay on English Folk-Music] - from volume VII of Baring-Gould's ''English Minstrelsie: a National Monument of English Song''.

[http://www.sbgas.org The website of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society] Contains a growing collection of articles about Baring-Gould from the Society's newsletter, reflecting the broader sweep of his life.

== References ==
Brenda Colloms, ‘Gould, Sabine Baring- (1834–1924)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30587

Bernarr Rainbow: 'Baring-Gould, Sabine', [[Grove Music Online]] ed. L. Macy, http://www.grovemusic.com

Martin Graebe: 'Devon by Dog Cart and Bicycle: The Folk Song Collaboration of Sabine Baring-Gould and Cecil Sharp, 1904-17', Folk Music Journal, Vol. 9 No. 3 (2008), p. 292-348

== Publications ==

Baring-Gould was an astonishingly prolific writer. His bibliographer, Roger Bristow, currently places the number of publications that he had to his name at more than 1,240. For a short list of his folk music books go to [http://www.sbgsongs.org]

[[Category:Collector]]

Sabine Baring-Gould

2009-10-21T17:52:48Z

MartinGraebe: Revision of summary

'''Sabine Baring-Gould''', English clergyman, folksong collector, novelist and writer. Born Exeter, 28 Jan 1834; died Lewtrenchard, Devon, 2 Jan 1924.

Essentially an autodidact, Baring-Gould managed to scrape through a degree at Cambridge, After several years as a teacher at St. Johns College, Hurstpierpoint Baring-Gould was ordained in 1864. On his father’s death in 1872 he inherited the family estates at Lewtrenchard, where he became rector in 1881, and served as a Justice of the Peace. He travelled widely and wrote extensively on both theological and more general topics.

He was the author of the words of many well-known hymns, Onward, Christian Soldiers being the best known example.

Baring-Gould was also a pioneer in the collection of English folksong: between 1888 and 1891 he published 110 songs, transcribed from performances by singers in [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]], as ''Songs and Ballads of the West''. This collection was made jointly with the Rev. H.F. Sheppard, the Rector of Thurnscoe in Yorkshire and Dr. Frederick Bussell, later to become Vice-Principal at Brasenose College, Oxford. Baring-Gould and Sheppard collaborated also on ''A Garland of Country Song'' (1895) and ''English Minstrelsie'' (1895–6). For the 1905 revision of ''Songs of the West'' [[Cecil Sharp]] replaced Sheppard as Musical Editor,

Baring-Gould has been criticised for his bowdlerisation - indeed, in some cases, rewriting - of many of the songs that he collected. It is worth remembering that he was publishing with a mainstream publisher [[Methuen]] for a primarily middle class audience. Inclusion of some of the sexually explicit material was not an option.

As a collector of songs from the mouths of singers he was preceded in England only by [[John Broadwood]] whose ''Sussex Songs'' was published for private circulation in 1843. Baring-Gould and Sheppard's folk song publications preceded those of [[W.A. Barrett]] (1891), [[Frank Kidson]] (1891), [[John Stokoe]] (1892), and [[Lucy Broadwood]] & [[J.A. Fuller Maitland]] (1893). Between 1903 and 1907 Sharp visited baring-Gould on a number of occasions, at first to seek his advice on folk song collecting, and then to collaborate on the Revision of ''Songs of the West' and then on the production of ''English Folk Songs for Schools'' (1906).

[[Image:sbglogo.jpg]]

'''A Short Note on a Long Life'''

100 years ago the first part of a wholly remarkable book was published. That book was "Songs and Ballads of the West" and had as it's subtitle "A collection made from the mouths of the people by the Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A., and the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppards, M.A.". Sabine Baring Gould was the Squire and Parson of the parish of Lewtrenchard in West Devon. He was also a scholar, antiquarian, collector and a prolific author of both fiction and non fiction: a man who was, in many ways, out of step with the rest of his generation.

Baring Gould was born in Exeter in 1834 to a father whose career with the East India Company had been cut short by a carriage accident. His childhood was unsettled since his father preferred to escape the boredom of England by travelling through Europe for the greater part of the year. This meant that Baring Gould had little formal schooling but this did not prevent him from scraping through Cambridge, though he could never get to grips with the mathematics that would have been essential to achieving his father’s expectation that he become and engineer. His unconventional views and behaviour were obvious even then and he was a persistent critic of the establishment (particularly that of the church) throughout his life. His romantic nature drew him towards the ritual of the Anglican ‘High Church’ and to the Norse sagas. Having been forbidden by his father to enter the church he took up teaching for several years until, when he was thirty, his father finally relented and he entered the church.

He became a curate at Horbury in Yorkshire where he was given the task of founding a mission to the mill-workers and canal people. His time here was marked by three key events. The writing of his most famous hymn, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, The publication of his first collected folk song and his marriage to a teenage mill-girl with whom he had fallen deeply in love. The love endured and in the forty-eight years until Grace Baring-Gould died they had 15 children.

His career took him shortly before his marriage in 1868, to a parish of his own at Dalton in North Yorkshire and then to East Mersea In Essex. It wasn’t until 1881 that Baring Gould was able to settle in Devon where he became responsible for the welfare of the few hundred people that lived in his parish and his manor. This left him time to spare for travelling regularly as he had when he was a boy, for raising his large family, for renovating his house and his church and for writing the astonishing number of books, pamphlets and magazine articles that actually paid for these other activities. The current estimate of publications, including books, hymns and magazine articles is at least 1200. To most people who have heard his name it is as the writer of a favourite hymn probably "Onward Christian Soldiers", but of all the achievements of his 90 years on this Earth, he himself rated most highly that of collecting the folk songs which were published as "Songs of the West".

He worked on the collection for 12 years and travelled hundreds of miles though Devon and Cornwall to visit the old singers in their homes, their pubs and in the fields. He was not, himself, a good musician and was helped in his work by two other men, Dr Fredrick Bussell and the Reverend H W Fleetwood Sheppard. When time permitted, one or other would join Baring Gould on his visits and take down the melodies while Baring Gould noted down the words. Baring Gould could not, in his era, have published the songs as recovered since they were too robust for Victorian ears. Rather than publish with blank spaces or dotted lines as some other collectors chose to do, Sabine took the course of modifying the words where necessary. He has been criticised for this over the years but it is hard, in reality, to see what other course of action was open to him.
It was originally intended that ‘Songs and Ballads of the West’ would be published in three parts but, in fact, it ran to four. It was not, of course, the first book about folk songs since there had been several collections of ballads published in the 17th and 18th century. It was not even the first book of songs collected directly from the singers since the Reverend John Broadwood had published his Sussex Songs privately in 1843. It was, however, the most ambitious collection made to that date and the book set the pattern for the first folk revival at the end of the last century. The conventions devised by Baring Gould were to become the standard practice and, in particular, his recognition that the songs were linked to individual singers who were usually identified in the text. This, coupled with the way he writes about his singers as friends, if not actually equals, is what is special about Baring Gould.

That first edition was written with Fleetwood Sheppard as musical editor and the majority of arrangements in the book were Sheppard’s creations, many of them very elaborate. Baring-Gould and Sheppard also produced a second collection, ‘A Garland of Country Song’ in 1895. A new edition of ‘Songs of the West’, published in 1905, was very different to the first since Cecil Sharp took over the musical editorship with a number of new arrangements replacing those by Sheppard.

For a few years at the beginning of the century Sharp and Baring Gould worked closely together and Sharp was a regular visitor to Lewtrenchard. As well as ‘Songs of the West’ they produced "English Folk Songs for Schools" in 1907 and in the same year Sharp dedicated his "English Folk Song some conclusions" to Baring Gould. What exactly caused their friendship to fade is unclear but Baring Gould's references to Sharp in later years became less flattering. He certainly believed that Sharp's arrangements were not generally as good as Sheppard's. It is also likely that he was unhappy that Sharp had gained the reputation as the man who saved English Folk Song and that his own part in the first revival had been overlooked.

Baring Gould died in 1924 at Lewtrenchard, a few days short of his 90th birthday. He was buried in his own churchyard just across the road from his house. He is still remembered fondly in Lewtrenchard and West Devon. To Folk Revival singers in England he has left a legacy that will be a source of joy for centuries to come.

Martin Graebe

== External links ==
[http://www.sbgsongs.org/ 'Songs of the West' Sabine Baring-Gould and the folk songs of South-West England] - site maintained by [[Martin Graebe]]. This site has been completely rebuilt and will continue to be worked on to add further material in the coming months.

[http://folk-network.com/miscellany/baring_gould/baring-gould.html Essay on English Folk-Music] - from volume VII of Baring-Gould's ''English Minstrelsie: a National Monument of English Song''.

[http://www.sbgas.org The website of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society] Contains a growing collection of articles about Baring-Gould from the Society's newsletter, reflecting the broader sweep of his life.

== References ==
Brenda Colloms, ‘Gould, Sabine Baring- (1834–1924)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30587

Bernarr Rainbow: 'Baring-Gould, Sabine', [[Grove Music Online]] ed. L. Macy, http://www.grovemusic.com

== Publications ==

Baring-Gould was an astonishingly prolific writer. His bibliographer, Roger Bristow, currently places the number of publications that he had to his name at more than 1,240. For a short list of his folk music books go to [http://www.sbgsongs.org]

[[Category:Collector]]

Sabine Baring-Gould

2007-11-19T17:27:48Z

MartinGraebe:

'''Sabine Baring-Gould''', English clergyman, folksong collector, novelist and writer. Born Exeter, 28 Jan 1834; died Lewtrenchard, Devon, 2 Jan 1924.

Educated at Cambridge, Baring-Gould was ordained in 1864. On his father’s death in 1872 he inherited the family estates at Lewtrenchard, where he became rector in 1881, and served as a Justice of the Peace. He travelled widely and wrote extensively on both theological and more general topics.
He was the author of the words of many well-known hymns, Onward, Christian Soldiers being the best known example.

Baring-Gould was also a pioneer in the collection of English folksong: between 1888 and 1891 he published 110 songs, transcribed from performances by singers in [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]], as ''Songs and Ballads of the West''. This collection was made jointly with the Rev. H.F. Sheppard, sub-dean of the Savoy Chapel. The two men collaborated also on ''A Garland of Country Song'' (1895) and ''English Minstrelsie'' (1895–6).

Although Baring-Gould has been criticised for his bowdlerisation - indeed, in some cases, rewriting - of many of the songs that he collected, it is worth remembering that as a collector he was preceded in England only by [[John Broadwood|John]] and [[Lucy Broadwood]]’s ''Sussex Songs'' (1843, 1888). Baring-Gould and Sheppard's publications came several years earlier than the folksong collections of [[W.A. Barrett]], [[Frank Kidson]], [[John Stokoe]] and [[J.A. Fuller Maitland]]. [[Cecil Sharp]]’s revision of ''Songs and Ballads of the West'' (1905) reflects the influence of Baring-Gould’s early work on Sharp’s own choice of collecting ground.

[[Image:sbglogo.jpg]]

'''A Short Note on a Long Life'''

100 years ago the first part of a wholly remarkable book was published. That book was "Songs and Ballads of the West" and had as it's subtitle "A collection made from the mouths of the people by the Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A., and the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppards, M.A.". Sabine Baring Gould was the Squire and Parson of the parish of Lewtrenchard in West Devon. He was also a scholar, antiquarian, collector and a prolific author of both fiction and non fiction: a man who was, in many ways, out of step with the rest of his generation.

Baring Gould was born in Exeter in 1834 to a father whose career with the East India Company had been cut short by a carriage accident. His childhood was unsettled since his father preferred to escape the boredom of England by travelling through Europe for the greater part of the year. This meant that Baring Gould had little formal schooling but this did not prevent him from scraping through Cambridge, though he could never get to grips with the mathematics that would have been essential to achieving his father’s expectation that he become and engineer. His unconventional views and behaviour were obvious even then and he was a persistent critic of the establishment (particularly that of the church) throughout his life. His romantic nature drew him towards the ritual of the Anglican ‘High Church’ and to the Norse sagas. Having been forbidden by his father to enter the church he took up teaching for several years until, when he was thirty, his father finally relented and he entered the church.

He became a curate at Horbury in Yorkshire where he was given the task of founding a mission to the mill-workers and canal people. His time here was marked by three key events. The writing of his most famous hymn, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, The publication of his first collected folk song and his marriage to a teenage mill-girl with whom he had fallen deeply in love. The love endured and in the forty-eight years until Grace Baring-Gould died they had 15 children.

His career took him shortly before his marriage in 1868, to a parish of his own at Dalton in North Yorkshire and then to East Mersea In Essex. It wasn’t until 1881 that Baring Gould was able to settle in Devon where he became responsible for the welfare of the few hundred people that lived in his parish and his manor. This left him time to spare for travelling regularly as he had when he was a boy, for raising his large family, for renovating his house and his church and for writing the astonishing number of books, pamphlets and magazine articles that actually paid for these other activities. The current estimate of publications, including books, hymns and magazine articles is at least 1200. To most people who have heard his name it is as the writer of a favourite hymn probably "Onward Christian Soldiers", but of all the achievements of his 90 years on this Earth, he himself rated most highly that of collecting the folk songs which were published as "Songs of the West".

He worked on the collection for 12 years and travelled hundreds of miles though Devon and Cornwall to visit the old singers in their homes, their pubs and in the fields. He was not, himself, a good musician and was helped in his work by two other men, Dr Fredrick Bussell and the Reverend H W Fleetwood Sheppard. When time permitted, one or other would join Baring Gould on his visits and take down the melodies while Baring Gould noted down the words. Baring Gould could not, in his era, have published the songs as recovered since they were too robust for Victorian ears. Rather than publish with blank spaces or dotted lines as some other collectors chose to do, Sabine took the course of modifying the words where necessary. He has been criticised for this over the years but it is hard, in reality, to see what other course of action was open to him.
It was originally intended that ‘Songs and Ballads of the West’ would be published in three parts but, in fact, it ran to four. It was not, of course, the first book about folk songs since there had been several collections of ballads published in the 17th and 18th century. It was not even the first book of songs collected directly from the singers since the Reverend John Broadwood had published his Sussex Songs privately in 1843. It was, however, the most ambitious collection made to that date and the book set the pattern for the first folk revival at the end of the last century. The conventions devised by Baring Gould were to become the standard practice and, in particular, his recognition that the songs were linked to individual singers who were usually identified in the text. This, coupled with the way he writes about his singers as friends, if not actually equals, is what is special about Baring Gould.

That first edition was written with Fleetwood Sheppard as musical editor and the majority of arrangements in the book were Sheppard’s creations, many of them very elaborate. Baring-Gould and Sheppard also produced a second collection, ‘A Garland of Country Song’ in 1895. A new edition of ‘Songs of the West’, published in 1905, was very different to the first since Cecil Sharp took over the musical editorship with a number of new arrangements replacing those by Sheppard.

For a few years at the beginning of the century Sharp and Baring Gould worked closely together and Sharp was a regular visitor to Lewtrenchard. As well as ‘Songs of the West’ they produced "English Folk Songs for Schools" in 1907 and in the same year Sharp dedicated his "English Folk Song some conclusions" to Baring Gould. What exactly caused their friendship to fade is unclear but Baring Gould's references to Sharp in later years became less flattering. He certainly believed that Sharp's arrangements were not generally as good as Sheppard's. It is also likely that he was unhappy that Sharp had gained the reputation as the man who saved English Folk Song and that his own part in the first revival had been overlooked.

Baring Gould died in 1924 at Lewtrenchard, a few days short of his 90th birthday. He was buried in his own churchyard just across the road from his house. He is still remembered fondly in Lewtrenchard and West Devon. To Folk Revival singers in England he has left a legacy that will be a source of joy for centuries to come.

Martin Graebe

== External links ==
[http://www.sbgsongs.org/ 'Songs of the West' Sabine Baring-Gould and the folk songs of South-West England] - site maintained by [[Martin Graebe]]. This site has been completely rebuilt and will continue to be worked on to add further material in the coming months.

[http://folk-network.com/miscellany/baring_gould/baring-gould.html Essay on English Folk-Music] - from volume VII of Baring-Gould's ''English Minstrelsie: a National Monument of English Song''.

[http://www.sbgas.org The website of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society] Contains a growing collection of articles about Baring-Gould from the Society's newsletter, reflecting the broader sweep of his life.

== References ==
Brenda Colloms, ‘Gould, Sabine Baring- (1834–1924)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30587

Bernard Rainbow: 'Baring-Gould, Sabine', [[Grove Music Online]] ed. L. Macy, http://www.grovemusic.com

== Publications ==

Baring-Gould was an astonishingly prolific writer. His bibliographer, Roger Bristow, currently places the number of publications that he had to his name at more than 1,240. For a short list of his folk music books go to [http://www.sbgsongs.org]

[[Category:Collector]]

Sabine Baring-Gould

2007-11-19T17:25:51Z

MartinGraebe:

'''Sabine Baring-Gould''', English clergyman, folksong collector, novelist and writer. Born Exeter, 28 Jan 1834; died Lewtrenchard, Devon, 2 Jan 1924.

Educated at Cambridge, Baring-Gould was ordained in 1864. On his father’s death in 1872 he inherited the family estates at Lewtrenchard, where he became rector in 1881, and served as a Justice of the Peace. He travelled widely and wrote extensively on both theological and more general topics.
He was the author of the words of many well-known hymns, Onward, Christian Soldiers being the best known example.

Baring-Gould was also a pioneer in the collection of English folksong: between 1888 and 1891 he published 110 songs, transcribed from performances by singers in [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]], as ''Songs and Ballads of the West''. This collection was made jointly with the Rev. H.F. Sheppard, sub-dean of the Savoy Chapel. The two men collaborated also on ''A Garland of Country Song'' (1895) and ''English Minstrelsie'' (1895–6).

Although Baring-Gould has been criticised for his bowdlerisation - indeed, in some cases, rewriting - of many of the songs that he collected, it is worth remembering that as a collector he was preceded in England only by [[John Broadwood|John]] and [[Lucy Broadwood]]’s ''Sussex Songs'' (1843, 1888). Baring-Gould and Sheppard's publications came several years earlier than the folksong collections of [[W.A. Barrett]], [[Frank Kidson]], [[John Stokoe]] and [[J.A. Fuller Maitland]]. [[Cecil Sharp]]’s revision of ''Songs and Ballads of the West'' (1905) reflects the influence of Baring-Gould’s early work on Sharp’s own choice of collecting ground.

[[Image:sbglogo.jpg]]

'''A Short Note on a Long Life'''

100 years ago the first part of a wholly remarkable book was published. That book was "Songs and Ballads of the West" and had as it's subtitle "A collection made from the mouths of the people by the Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A., and the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppards, M.A.". Sabine Baring Gould was the Squire and Parson of the parish of Lewtrenchard in West Devon. He was also a scholar, antiquarian, collector and a prolific author of both fiction and non fiction: a man who was, in many ways, out of step with the rest of his generation.

Baring Gould was born in Exeter in 1834 to a father whose career with the East India Company had been cut short by a carriage accident. His childhood was unsettled since his father preferred to escape the boredom of England by travelling through Europe for the greater part of the year. This meant that Baring Gould had little formal schooling but this did not prevent him from scraping through Cambridge, though he could never get to grips with the mathematics that would have been essential to achieving his father’s expectation that he become and engineer. His unconventional views and behaviour were obvious even then and he was a persistent critic of the establishment (particularly that of the church) throughout his life. His romantic nature drew him towards the ritual of the Anglican ‘High Church’ and to the Norse sagas. Having been forbidden by his father to enter the church he took up teaching for several years until, when he was thirty, his father finally relented and he entered the church.

He became a curate at Horbury in Yorkshire where he was given the task of founding a mission to the mill-workers and canal people. His time here was marked by three key events. The writing of his most famous hymn, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, The publication of his first collected folk song and his marriage to a teenage mill-girl with whom he had fallen deeply in love. The love endured and in the forty-eight years until Grace Baring-Gould died they had 15 children.

His career took him shortly before his marriage in 1868, to a parish of his own at Dalton in North Yorkshire and then to East Mersea In Essex. It wasn’t until 1881 that Baring Gould was able to settle in Devon where he became responsible for the welfare of the few hundred people that lived in his parish and his manor. This left him time to spare for travelling regularly as he had when he was a boy, for raising his large family, for renovating his house and his church and for writing the astonishing number of books, pamphlets and magazine articles that actually paid for these other activities. The current estimate of publications, including books, hymns and magazine articles is at least 1200. To most people who have heard his name it is as the writer of a favourite hymn probably "Onward Christian Soldiers", but of all the achievements of his 90 years on this Earth, he himself rated most highly that of collecting the folk songs which were published as "Songs of the West".

He worked on the collection for 12 years and travelled hundreds of miles though Devon and Cornwall to visit the old singers in their homes, their pubs and in the fields. He was not, himself, a good musician and was helped in his work by two other men, Dr Fredrick Bussell and the Reverend H W Fleetwood Sheppard. When time permitted, one or other would join Baring Gould on his visits and take down the melodies while Baring Gould noted down the words. Baring Gould could not, in his era, have published the songs as recovered since they were too robust for Victorian ears. Rather than publish with blank spaces or dotted lines as some other collectors chose to do, Sabine took the course of modifying the words where necessary. He has been criticised for this over the years but it is hard, in reality, to see what other course of action was open to him.
It was originally intended that ‘Songs and Ballads of the West’ would be published in three parts but, in fact, it ran to four. It was not, of course, the first book about folk songs since there had been several collections of ballads published in the 17th and 18th century. It was not even the first book of songs collected directly from the singers since the Reverend John Broadwood had published his Sussex Songs privately in 1843. It was, however, the most ambitious collection made to that date and the book set the pattern for the first folk revival at the end of the last century. The conventions devised by Baring Gould were to become the standard practice and, in particular, his recognition that the songs were linked to individual singers who were usually identified in the text. This, coupled with the way he writes about his singers as friends, if not actually equals, is what is special about Baring Gould.

That first edition was written with Fleetwood Sheppard as musical editor and the majority of arrangements in the book were Sheppard’s creations, many of them very elaborate. Baring-Gould and Sheppard also produced a second collection, ‘A Garland of Country Song’ in 1895. A new edition of ‘Songs of the West’, published in 1905, was very different to the first since Cecil Sharp took over the musical editorship with a number of new arrangements replacing those by Sheppard.

For a few years at the beginning of the century Sharp and Baring Gould worked closely together and Sharp was a regular visitor to Lewtrenchard. As well as ‘Songs of the West’ they produced "English Folk Songs for Schools" in 1907 and in the same year Sharp dedicated his "English Folk Song some conclusions" to Baring Gould. What exactly caused their friendship to fade is unclear but Baring Gould's references to Sharp in later years became less flattering. He certainly believed that Sharp's arrangements were not generally as good as Sheppard's. It is also likely that he was unhappy that Sharp had gained the reputation as the man who saved English Folk Song and that his own part in the first revival had been overlooked.

Baring Gould died in 1924 at Lewtrenchard, a few days short of his 90th birthday. He was buried in his own churchyard just across the road from his house. He is still remembered fondly in Lewtrenchard and West Devon. To Folk Revival singers in England he has left a legacy that will be a source of joy for centuries to come.

Martin Graebe

== External links ==
[http://www.sbgsongs.org/ Sabine Baring-Gould and the folk songs of South-West England] - site maintained by [[Martin Graebe]]. This site has been completely rebuilt and will continue to be worked on to add further material in the coming months.

[http://folk-network.com/miscellany/baring_gould/baring-gould.html Essay on English Folk-Music] - from volume VII of Baring-Gould's ''English Minstrelsie: a National Monument of English Song''.

[http://www.sbgas.org The website of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society] Contains a growing collection of articles about Baring-Gould from the Society's newsletter, reflecting the broader sweep of his life.

== References ==
Brenda Colloms, ‘Gould, Sabine Baring- (1834–1924)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30587

Bernarr Rainbow: 'Baring-Gould, Sabine', [[Grove Music Online]] ed. L. Macy, http://www.grovemusic.com

== Publications ==

Baring-Gould was an astonishingly prolific writer. His bibliographer, Roger Bristow, currently places the number of publications that he had to his name at more than 1,240. For a short list of his folk music books go to [http://www.sbgsongs.org]

[[Category:Collector]]

National

2007-07-10T19:32:38Z

MartinGraebe:

== The English Folk Dance and Song Society ==
[[Image:Efdss_square.jpg]]

These pages are hosted by the English Folk Dance and Song Society, the longest running society in England dedicated to promoting the folk arts. With a headquarters in Regent's Park Rd, London and members all over the world, the EFDSS has an important part to play in passing on the traditions and culture of England to those who wish to carry them onward.

The hub of the Society's work is the [http://library.efdss.org Vaughan Williams Memorial Library], a significant multi-media collection in care for the nation.

The Society is a publisher of books, audio and video and all current titles are sold by mail order or from the [http://folkshop.efdss.org Folkshop].

The quarterly magazine is English Dance and Song which includes online enhancements in the form of audio and pdf files on its [http://eds.efdss.org web site].

The EFDSS is soon to host the web site for the [http://www.folkplay.info/ Traditional Drama Research Group], whose interests are in Mummers Plays and traditional street drama.

== The Morris Ring ==
http://www.themorrisring.org/

== The Morris Federation ==
http://www.morrisfed.org/

== Open Morris ==
http://www.open-morris.com/

== Folk Arts England ==

FolkArts England (FAE) is a national development agency for Folk, Roots and Traditional Music. It is funded by [http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/| Arts Council England] and incorporates The Association of Festival Organisers (AFO) and publishes Direct Roots, the guide to folk, roots and related music and arts.

[http://www.folkarts-england.org/ FAE website] [http://www.folkarts-england.org/afo.htm AFO website]

==The Folklore Society==

The Folklore Society (FLS) was founded in 1878 and was one of the first organisations in the world devoted to the study of traditional culture. The term 'folklore' describes the overarching concept that holds together a number of aspects of vernacular culture and cultural traditions, and is also the name of the discipline which studies them.

The Folklore Society's interest and expertise covers topics such as traditional music, song, dance and drama, narrative, arts and crafts, customs and belief. We are also interested in popular religion, traditional and regional food, folk medicine, children's folklore, traditional sayings, proverbs rhymes and jingles.
[http://www.folklore-society.com/index.htm web site]

==The Folk Camps Society==

The Folk Camps Society is a not-for-profit holiday organisation run by its own members. The Society was founded in the early 60s when a group of folk enthusiasts decided it would be fun to go on holiday together, eat together and make their own entertainment without spending a fortune. They run holidays under canvas with an emphasis on folk dance, music and song.
[http://www.folkcamps.co.uk/ web site]

==The Nonsuch Dulcimer Club==

The Nonsuch Dulcimer Club is a national club that promotes all forms of Dulcimer, i.e. Hammered or Plucked Dulcimer, and the Mountain (Lap) Dulcimer. The club has regular newsletters and hosts both national and regional events.
[http://www.nonsuchdulcimer.org.uk/ web site]

==The Traditional Song Forum==

[http://www.tradsong.org website - www.tradsong.org]

TSF is an informal organisation of researchers and enthusiasts for traditional song and traditional singing whose aim is to encourage research and dissemination of information about traditional song. There are usually three meetings a year in different parts of England where there are presentations of topics related to song research and where members can discuss aspects of their research or use of song with colleagues.

File:Sbglogo.jpg

2007-07-10T19:11:59Z

MartinGraebe: Sabine Baring-Gould

Sabine Baring-Gould

2007-07-10T19:11:20Z

MartinGraebe:

'''Sabine Baring-Gould''', English clergyman, folksong collector, novelist and writer. Born Exeter, 28 Jan 1834; died Lewtrenchard, Devon, 2 Jan 1924.

Educated at Cambridge, Baring-Gould was ordained in 1864. On his father’s death in 1872 he inherited the family estates at Lewtrenchard, where he became rector in 1881, and served as a Justice of the Peace. He travelled widely and wrote extensively on both theological and more general topics.
He was the author of the words of many well-known hymns, Onward, Christian Soldiers being the best known example.

Baring-Gould was also a pioneer in the collection of English folksong: between 1888 and 1891 he published 110 songs, transcribed from performances by singers in [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]], as ''Songs and Ballads of the West''. This collection was made jointly with the Rev. H.F. Sheppard, sub-dean of the Savoy Chapel. The two men collaborated also on ''A Garland of Country Song'' (1895) and ''English Minstrelsie'' (1895–6).

Although Baring-Gould has been criticised for his bowdlerisation - indeed, in some cases, rewriting - of many of the songs that he collected, it is worth remembering that as a collector he was preceded in England only by [[John Broadwood|John]] and [[Lucy Broadwood]]’s ''Sussex Songs'' (1843, 1888). Baring-Gould and Sheppard's publications came several years earlier than the folksong collections of [[W.A. Barrett]], [[Frank Kidson]], [[John Stokoe]] and [[J.A. Fuller Maitland]]. [[Cecil Sharp]]’s revision of ''Songs and Ballads of the West'' (1905) reflects the influence of Baring-Gould’s early work on Sharp’s own choice of collecting ground.

[[Image:sbglogo.jpg]]

'''A Short Note on a Long Life'''

100 years ago the first part of a wholly remarkable book was published. That book was "Songs and Ballads of the West" and had as it's subtitle "A collection made from the mouths of the people by the Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A., and the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppards, M.A.". Sabine Baring Gould was the Squire and Parson of the parish of Lewtrenchard in West Devon. He was also a scholar, antiquarian, collector and a prolific author of both fiction and non fiction: a man who was, in many ways, out of step with the rest of his generation.

Baring Gould was born in Exeter in 1834 to a father whose career with the East India Company had been cut short by a carriage accident. His childhood was unsettled since his father preferred to escape the boredom of England by travelling through Europe for the greater part of the year. This meant that Baring Gould had little formal schooling but this did not prevent him from scraping through Cambridge, though he could never get to grips with the mathematics that would have been essential to achieving his father’s expectation that he become and engineer. His unconventional views and behaviour were obvious even then and he was a persistent critic of the establishment (particularly that of the church) throughout his life. His romantic nature drew him towards the ritual of the Anglican ‘High Church’ and to the Norse sagas. Having been forbidden by his father to enter the church he took up teaching for several years until, when he was thirty, his father finally relented and he entered the church.

He became a curate at Horbury in Yorkshire where he was given the task of founding a mission to the mill-workers and canal people. His time here was marked by three key events. The writing of his most famous hymn, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, The publication of his first collected folk song and his marriage to a teenage mill-girl with whom he had fallen deeply in love. The love endured and in the forty-eight years until Grace Baring-Gould died they had 15 children.

His career took him shortly before his marriage in 1868, to a parish of his own at Dalton in North Yorkshire and then to East Mersea In Essex. It wasn’t until 1881 that Baring Gould was able to settle in Devon where he became responsible for the welfare of the few hundred people that lived in his parish and his manor. This left him time to spare for travelling regularly as he had when he was a boy, for raising his large family, for renovating his house and his church and for writing the astonishing number of books, pamphlets and magazine articles that actually paid for these other activities. The current estimate of publications, including books, hymns and magazine articles is at least 1200. To most people who have heard his name it is as the writer of a favourite hymn probably "Onward Christian Soldiers", but of all the achievements of his 90 years on this Earth, he himself rated most highly that of collecting the folk songs which were published as "Songs of the West".

He worked on the collection for 12 years and travelled hundreds of miles though Devon and Cornwall to visit the old singers in their homes, their pubs and in the fields. He was not, himself, a good musician and was helped in his work by two other men, Dr Fredrick Bussell and the Reverend H W Fleetwood Sheppard. When time permitted, one or other would join Baring Gould on his visits and take down the melodies while Baring Gould noted down the words. Baring Gould could not, in his era, have published the songs as recovered since they were too robust for Victorian ears. Rather than publish with blank spaces or dotted lines as some other collectors chose to do, Sabine took the course of modifying the words where necessary. He has been criticised for this over the years but it is hard, in reality, to see what other course of action was open to him.
It was originally intended that ‘Songs and Ballads of the West’ would be published in three parts but, in fact, it ran to four. It was not, of course, the first book about folk songs since there had been several collections of ballads published in the 17th and 18th century. It was not even the first book of songs collected directly from the singers since the Reverend John Broadwood had published his Sussex Songs privately in 1843. It was, however, the most ambitious collection made to that date and the book set the pattern for the first folk revival at the end of the last century. The conventions devised by Baring Gould were to become the standard practice and, in particular, his recognition that the songs were linked to individual singers who were usually identified in the text. This, coupled with the way he writes about his singers as friends, if not actually equals, is what is special about Baring Gould.

That first edition was written with Fleetwood Sheppard as musical editor and the majority of arrangements in the book were Sheppard’s creations, many of them very elaborate. Baring-Gould and Sheppard also produced a second collection, ‘A Garland of Country Song’ in 1895. A new edition of ‘Songs of the West’, published in 1905, was very different to the first since Cecil Sharp took over the musical editorship with a number of new arrangements replacing those by Sheppard.

For a few years at the beginning of the century Sharp and Baring Gould worked closely together and Sharp was a regular visitor to Lewtrenchard. As well as ‘Songs of the West’ they produced "English Folk Songs for Schools" in 1907 and in the same year Sharp dedicated his "English Folk Song some conclusions" to Baring Gould. What exactly caused their friendship to fade is unclear but Baring Gould's references to Sharp in later years became less flattering. He certainly believed that Sharp's arrangements were not generally as good as Sheppard's. It is also likely that he was unhappy that Sharp had gained the reputation as the man who saved English Folk Song and that his own part in the first revival had been overlooked.

Baring Gould died in 1924 at Lewtrenchard, a few days short of his 90th birthday. He was buried in his own churchyard just across the road from his house. He is still remembered fondly in Lewtrenchard and West Devon. To Folk Revival singers in England he has left a legacy that will be a source of joy for centuries to come.

Martin Graebe

== External links ==
[http://www.greenjack.btinternet.co.uk/ Sabine Baring-Gould and the folk songs of South-West England] - site maintained by [[Martin Graebe]]. Oversue for updating (which is in hand) but still a useful source of ibformation about Baring-Gould's song collecting activity

[http://folk-network.com/miscellany/baring_gould/baring-gould.html Essay on English Folk-Music] - from volume VII of Baring-Gould's ''English Minstrelsie: a National Monument of English Song''.

[http://www.sbgas.org The website of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society] Contains a growing collection of articles about Baring-Gould from the Society's newsletter, reflecting the broader sweep of his life.

== References ==
Brenda Colloms, ‘Gould, Sabine Baring- (1834–1924)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30587

Bernarr Rainbow: 'Baring-Gould, Sabine', [[Grove Music Online]] ed. L. Macy, http://www.grovemusic.com

== Publications ==

Baring-Gould was an astonishingly prolific writer. His bibliographer, Roger Bristow, currently places the number of publications that he had to his name at more than 1,240. For a short list of his folk music books go to [http://www.greenjack.btinternet.co.uk/biblio.html A brief bibliography]

[[Category:Collector]]

File:SB-G.jpg

2007-07-10T18:55:48Z

MartinGraebe: Sabine Baring-Gould

Sabine Baring-Gould

2007-07-10T18:53:24Z

MartinGraebe:

'''Sabine Baring-Gould''', English clergyman, folksong collector, novelist and writer. Born Exeter, 28 Jan 1834; died Lewtrenchard, Devon, 2 Jan 1924.

Educated at Cambridge, Baring-Gould was ordained in 1864. On his father’s death in 1872 he inherited the family estates at Lewtrenchard, where he became rector in 1881, and served as a Justice of the Peace. He travelled widely and wrote extensively on both theological and more general topics.
He was the author of the words of many well-known hymns, Onward, Christian Soldiers being the best known example.

Baring-Gould was also a pioneer in the collection of English folksong: between 1888 and 1891 he published 110 songs, transcribed from performances by singers in [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]], as ''Songs and Ballads of the West''. This collection was made jointly with the Rev. H.F. Sheppard, sub-dean of the Savoy Chapel. The two men collaborated also on ''A Garland of Country Song'' (1895) and ''English Minstrelsie'' (1895–6).

Although Baring-Gould has been criticised for his bowdlerisation - indeed, in some cases, rewriting - of many of the songs that he collected, it is worth remembering that as a collector he was preceded in England only by [[John Broadwood|John]] and [[Lucy Broadwood]]’s ''Sussex Songs'' (1843, 1888). Baring-Gould and Sheppard's publications came several years earlier than the folksong collections of [[W.A. Barrett]], [[Frank Kidson]], [[John Stokoe]] and [[J.A. Fuller Maitland]]. [[Cecil Sharp]]’s revision of ''Songs and Ballads of the West'' (1905) reflects the influence of Baring-Gould’s early work on Sharp’s own choice of collecting ground.

[[Image:SB-G.jpg]]

'''A Short Note on a Long Life'''

100 years ago the first part of a wholly remarkable book was published. That book was "Songs and Ballads of the West" and had as it's subtitle "A collection made from the mouths of the people by the Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A., and the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppards, M.A.". Sabine Baring Gould was the Squire and Parson of the parish of Lewtrenchard in West Devon. He was also a scholar, antiquarian, collector and a prolific author of both fiction and non fiction: a man who was, in many ways, out of step with the rest of his generation.

Baring Gould was born in Exeter in 1834 to a father whose career with the East India Company had been cut short by a carriage accident. His childhood was unsettled since his father preferred to escape the boredom of England by travelling through Europe for the greater part of the year. This meant that Baring Gould had little formal schooling but this did not prevent him from scraping through Cambridge, though he could never get to grips with the mathematics that would have been essential to achieving his father’s expectation that he become and engineer. His unconventional views and behaviour were obvious even then and he was a persistent critic of the establishment (particularly that of the church) throughout his life. His romantic nature drew him towards the ritual of the Anglican ‘High Church’ and to the Norse sagas. Having been forbidden by his father to enter the church he took up teaching for several years until, when he was thirty, his father finally relented and he entered the church.

He became a curate at Horbury in Yorkshire where he was given the task of founding a mission to the mill-workers and canal people. His time here was marked by three key events. The writing of his most famous hymn, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, The publication of his first collected folk song and his marriage to a teenage mill-girl with whom he had fallen deeply in love. The love endured and in the forty-eight years until Grace Baring-Gould died they had 15 children.

His career took him shortly before his marriage in 1868, to a parish of his own at Dalton in North Yorkshire and then to East Mersea In Essex. It wasn’t until 1881 that Baring Gould was able to settle in Devon where he became responsible for the welfare of the few hundred people that lived in his parish and his manor. This left him time to spare for travelling regularly as he had when he was a boy, for raising his large family, for renovating his house and his church and for writing the astonishing number of books, pamphlets and magazine articles that actually paid for these other activities. The current estimate of publications, including books, hymns and magazine articles is at least 1200. To most people who have heard his name it is as the writer of a favourite hymn probably "Onward Christian Soldiers", but of all the achievements of his 90 years on this Earth, he himself rated most highly that of collecting the folk songs which were published as "Songs of the West".

He worked on the collection for 12 years and travelled hundreds of miles though Devon and Cornwall to visit the old singers in their homes, their pubs and in the fields. He was not, himself, a good musician and was helped in his work by two other men, Dr Fredrick Bussell and the Reverend H W Fleetwood Sheppard. When time permitted, one or other would join Baring Gould on his visits and take down the melodies while Baring Gould noted down the words. Baring Gould could not, in his era, have published the songs as recovered since they were too robust for Victorian ears. Rather than publish with blank spaces or dotted lines as some other collectors chose to do, Sabine took the course of modifying the words where necessary. He has been criticised for this over the years but it is hard, in reality, to see what other course of action was open to him.
It was originally intended that ‘Songs and Ballads of the West’ would be published in three parts but, in fact, it ran to four. It was not, of course, the first book about folk songs since there had been several collections of ballads published in the 17th and 18th century. It was not even the first book of songs collected directly from the singers since the Reverend John Broadwood had published his Sussex Songs privately in 1843. It was, however, the most ambitious collection made to that date and the book set the pattern for the first folk revival at the end of the last century. The conventions devised by Baring Gould were to become the standard practice and, in particular, his recognition that the songs were linked to individual singers who were usually identified in the text. This, coupled with the way he writes about his singers as friends, if not actually equals, is what is special about Baring Gould.

That first edition was written with Fleetwood Sheppard as musical editor and the majority of arrangements in the book were Sheppard’s creations, many of them very elaborate. Baring-Gould and Sheppard also produced a second collection, ‘A Garland of Country Song’ in 1895. A new edition of ‘Songs of the West’, published in 1905, was very different to the first since Cecil Sharp took over the musical editorship with a number of new arrangements replacing those by Sheppard.

For a few years at the beginning of the century Sharp and Baring Gould worked closely together and Sharp was a regular visitor to Lewtrenchard. As well as ‘Songs of the West’ they produced "English Folk Songs for Schools" in 1907 and in the same year Sharp dedicated his "English Folk Song some conclusions" to Baring Gould. What exactly caused their friendship to fade is unclear but Baring Gould's references to Sharp in later years became less flattering. He certainly believed that Sharp's arrangements were not generally as good as Sheppard's. It is also likely that he was unhappy that Sharp had gained the reputation as the man who saved English Folk Song and that his own part in the first revival had been overlooked.

Baring Gould died in 1924 at Lewtrenchard, a few days short of his 90th birthday. He was buried in his own churchyard just across the road from his house. He is still remembered fondly in Lewtrenchard and West Devon. To Folk Revival singers in England he has left a legacy that will be a source of joy for centuries to come.

Martin Graebe

== External links ==
[http://www.greenjack.btinternet.co.uk/ Sabine Baring-Gould and the folk songs of South-West England] - site maintained by [[Martin Graebe]]. Oversue for updating (which is in hand) but still a useful source of ibformation about Baring-Gould's song collecting activity

[http://folk-network.com/miscellany/baring_gould/baring-gould.html Essay on English Folk-Music] - from volume VII of Baring-Gould's ''English Minstrelsie: a National Monument of English Song''.

[http://www.sbgas.org The website of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society] Contains a growing collection of articles about Baring-Gould from the Society's newsletter, reflecting the broader sweep of his life.

== References ==
Brenda Colloms, ‘Gould, Sabine Baring- (1834–1924)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30587

Bernarr Rainbow: 'Baring-Gould, Sabine', [[Grove Music Online]] ed. L. Macy, http://www.grovemusic.com

== Publications ==

Baring-Gould was an astonishingly prolific writer. His bibliographer, Roger Bristow, currently places the number of publications that he had to his name at more than 1,240. For a short list of his folk music books go to [http://www.greenjack.btinternet.co.uk/biblio.html A brief bibliography]

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Sabine Baring-Gould

2007-07-10T18:51:14Z

MartinGraebe:

'''Sabine Baring-Gould''', English clergyman, folksong collector, novelist and writer. Born Exeter, 28 Jan 1834; died Lewtrenchard, Devon, 2 Jan 1924.

Educated at Cambridge, Baring-Gould was ordained in 1864. On his father’s death in 1872 he inherited the family estates at Lewtrenchard, where he became rector in 1881, and served as a Justice of the Peace. He travelled widely and wrote extensively on both theological and more general topics.
He was the author of the words of many well-known hymns, Onward, Christian Soldiers being the best known example.

Baring-Gould was also a pioneer in the collection of English folksong: between 1888 and 1891 he published 110 songs, transcribed from performances by singers in [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]], as ''Songs and Ballads of the West''. This collection was made jointly with the Rev. H.F. Sheppard, sub-dean of the Savoy Chapel. The two men collaborated also on ''A Garland of Country Song'' (1895) and ''English Minstrelsie'' (1895–6).

Although Baring-Gould has been criticised for his bowdlerisation - indeed, in some cases, rewriting - of many of the songs that he collected, it is worth remembering that as a collector he was preceded in England only by [[John Broadwood|John]] and [[Lucy Broadwood]]’s ''Sussex Songs'' (1843, 1888). Baring-Gould and Sheppard's publications came several years earlier than the folksong collections of [[W.A. Barrett]], [[Frank Kidson]], [[John Stokoe]] and [[J.A. Fuller Maitland]]. [[Cecil Sharp]]’s revision of ''Songs and Ballads of the West'' (1905) reflects the influence of Baring-Gould’s early work on Sharp’s own choice of collecting ground.

'''A Short Note on a Long Life'''

100 years ago the first part of a wholly remarkable book was published. That book was "Songs and Ballads of the West" and had as it's subtitle "A collection made from the mouths of the people by the Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A., and the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppards, M.A.". Sabine Baring Gould was the Squire and Parson of the parish of Lewtrenchard in West Devon. He was also a scholar, antiquarian, collector and a prolific author of both fiction and non fiction: a man who was, in many ways, out of step with the rest of his generation.

Baring Gould was born in Exeter in 1834 to a father whose career with the East India Company had been cut short by a carriage accident. His childhood was unsettled since his father preferred to escape the boredom of England by travelling through Europe for the greater part of the year. This meant that Baring Gould had little formal schooling but this did not prevent him from scraping through Cambridge, though he could never get to grips with the mathematics that would have been essential to achieving his father’s expectation that he become and engineer. His unconventional views and behaviour were obvious even then and he was a persistent critic of the establishment (particularly that of the church) throughout his life. His romantic nature drew him towards the ritual of the Anglican ‘High Church’ and to the Norse sagas. Having been forbidden by his father to enter the church he took up teaching for several years until, when he was thirty, his father finally relented and he entered the church.

He became a curate at Horbury in Yorkshire where he was given the task of founding a mission to the mill-workers and canal people. His time here was marked by three key events. The writing of his most famous hymn, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, The publication of his first collected folk song and his marriage to a teenage mill-girl with whom he had fallen deeply in love. The love endured and in the forty-eight years until Grace Baring-Gould died they had 15 children.

His career took him shortly before his marriage in 1868, to a parish of his own at Dalton in North Yorkshire and then to East Mersea In Essex. It wasn’t until 1881 that Baring Gould was able to settle in Devon where he became responsible for the welfare of the few hundred people that lived in his parish and his manor. This left him time to spare for travelling regularly as he had when he was a boy, for raising his large family, for renovating his house and his church and for writing the astonishing number of books, pamphlets and magazine articles that actually paid for these other activities. The current estimate of publications, including books, hymns and magazine articles is at least 1200. To most people who have heard his name it is as the writer of a favourite hymn probably "Onward Christian Soldiers", but of all the achievements of his 90 years on this Earth, he himself rated most highly that of collecting the folk songs which were published as "Songs of the West".

He worked on the collection for 12 years and travelled hundreds of miles though Devon and Cornwall to visit the old singers in their homes, their pubs and in the fields. He was not, himself, a good musician and was helped in his work by two other men, Dr Fredrick Bussell and the Reverend H W Fleetwood Sheppard. When time permitted, one or other would join Baring Gould on his visits and take down the melodies while Baring Gould noted down the words. Baring Gould could not, in his era, have published the songs as recovered since they were too robust for Victorian ears. Rather than publish with blank spaces or dotted lines as some other collectors chose to do, Sabine took the course of modifying the words where necessary. He has been criticised for this over the years but it is hard, in reality, to see what other course of action was open to him.
It was originally intended that ‘Songs and Ballads of the West’ would be published in three parts but, in fact, it ran to four. It was not, of course, the first book about folk songs since there had been several collections of ballads published in the 17th and 18th century. It was not even the first book of songs collected directly from the singers since the Reverend John Broadwood had published his Sussex Songs privately in 1843. It was, however, the most ambitious collection made to that date and the book set the pattern for the first folk revival at the end of the last century. The conventions devised by Baring Gould were to become the standard practice and, in particular, his recognition that the songs were linked to individual singers who were usually identified in the text. This, coupled with the way he writes about his singers as friends, if not actually equals, is what is special about Baring Gould.

That first edition was written with Fleetwood Sheppard as musical editor and the majority of arrangements in the book were Sheppard’s creations, many of them very elaborate. Baring-Gould and Sheppard also produced a second collection, ‘A Garland of Country Song’ in 1895. A new edition of ‘Songs of the West’, published in 1905, was very different to the first since Cecil Sharp took over the musical editorship with a number of new arrangements replacing those by Sheppard.

For a few years at the beginning of the century Sharp and Baring Gould worked closely together and Sharp was a regular visitor to Lewtrenchard. As well as ‘Songs of the West’ they produced "English Folk Songs for Schools" in 1907 and in the same year Sharp dedicated his "English Folk Song some conclusions" to Baring Gould. What exactly caused their friendship to fade is unclear but Baring Gould's references to Sharp in later years became less flattering. He certainly believed that Sharp's arrangements were not generally as good as Sheppard's. It is also likely that he was unhappy that Sharp had gained the reputation as the man who saved English Folk Song and that his own part in the first revival had been overlooked.

Baring Gould died in 1924 at Lewtrenchard, a few days short of his 90th birthday. He was buried in his own churchyard just across the road from his house. He is still remembered fondly in Lewtrenchard and West Devon. To Folk Revival singers in England he has left a legacy that will be a source of joy for centuries to come.

Martin Graebe

== External links ==
[http://www.greenjack.btinternet.co.uk/ Sabine Baring-Gould and the folk songs of South-West England] - site maintained by [[Martin Graebe]]. Oversue for updating (which is in hand) but still a useful source of ibformation about Baring-Gould's song collecting activity

[http://folk-network.com/miscellany/baring_gould/baring-gould.html Essay on English Folk-Music] - from volume VII of Baring-Gould's ''English Minstrelsie: a National Monument of English Song''.

[http://www.sbgas.org The website of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society] Contains a growing collection of articles about Baring-Gould from the Society's newsletter, reflecting the broader sweep of his life.

== References ==
Brenda Colloms, ‘Gould, Sabine Baring- (1834–1924)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30587

Bernarr Rainbow: 'Baring-Gould, Sabine', [[Grove Music Online]] ed. L. Macy, http://www.grovemusic.com

== Publications ==

Baring-Gould was an astonishingly prolific writer. His bibliographer, Roger Bristow, currently places the number of publications that he had to his name at more than 1,240. For a short list of his folk music books go to [http://www.greenjack.btinternet.co.uk/biblio.html A brief bibliography]

[[Category:Collector]]

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2007-07-10T18:48:24Z

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Sabine Barng-Gould

Sabine Baring-Gould

2007-07-10T18:44:42Z

MartinGraebe:

'''Sabine Baring-Gould''', English clergyman, folksong collector, novelist and writer. Born Exeter, 28 Jan 1834; died Lewtrenchard, Devon, 2 Jan 1924.

Educated at Cambridge, Baring-Gould was ordained in 1864. On his father’s death in 1872 he inherited the family estates at Lewtrenchard, where he became rector in 1881, and served as a Justice of the Peace. He travelled widely and wrote extensively on both theological and more general topics.
He was the author of the words of many well-known hymns, Onward, Christian Soldiers being the best known example.

Baring-Gould was also a pioneer in the collection of English folksong: between 1888 and 1891 he published 110 songs, transcribed from performances by singers in [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]], as ''Songs and Ballads of the West''. This collection was made jointly with the Rev. H.F. Sheppard, sub-dean of the Savoy Chapel. The two men collaborated also on ''A Garland of Country Song'' (1895) and ''English Minstrelsie'' (1895–6).

Although Baring-Gould has been criticised for his bowdlerisation - indeed, in some cases, rewriting - of many of the songs that he collected, it is worth remembering that as a collector he was preceded in England only by [[John Broadwood|John]] and [[Lucy Broadwood]]’s ''Sussex Songs'' (1843, 1888). Baring-Gould and Sheppard's publications came several years earlier than the folksong collections of [[W.A. Barrett]], [[Frank Kidson]], [[John Stokoe]] and [[J.A. Fuller Maitland]]. [[Cecil Sharp]]’s revision of ''Songs and Ballads of the West'' (1905) reflects the influence of Baring-Gould’s early work on Sharp’s own choice of collecting ground.

'''A Short Note on a Long Life'''

100 years ago the first part of a wholly remarkable book was published. That book was "Songs and Ballads of the West" and had as it's subtitle "A collection made from the mouths of the people by the Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A., and the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppards, M.A.". Sabine Baring Gould was the Squire and Parson of the parish of Lewtrenchard in West Devon. He was also a scholar, antiquarian, collector and a prolific author of both fiction and non fiction: a man who was, in many ways, out of step with the rest of his generation.
Baring Gould was born in Exeter in 1834 to a father whose career with the East India Company had been cut short by a carriage accident. His childhood was unsettled since his father preferred to escape the boredom of England by travelling through Europe for the greater part of the year. This meant that Baring Gould had little formal schooling but this did not prevent him from scraping through Cambridge, though he could never get to grips with the mathematics that would have been essential to achieving his father’s expectation that he become and engineer. His unconventional views and behaviour were obvious even then and he was a persistent critic of the establishment (particularly that of the church) throughout his life. His romantic nature drew him towards the ritual of the Anglican ‘High Church’ and to the Norse sagas. Having been forbidden by his father to enter the church he took up teaching for several years until, when he was thirty, his father finally relented and he entered the church.
He became a curate at Horbury in Yorkshire where he was given the task of founding a mission to the mill-workers and canal people. His time here was marked by three key events. The writing of his most famous hymn, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, The publication of his first collected folk song and his marriage to a teenage mill-girl with whom he had fallen deeply in love. The love endured and in the forty-eight years until Grace Baring-Gould died they had 15 children.
His career took him shortly before his marriage in 1868, to a parish of his own at Dalton in North Yorkshire and then to East Mersea In Essex. It wasn’t until 1881 that Baring Gould was able to settle in Devon where he became responsible for the welfare of the few hundred people that lived in his parish and his manor. This left him time to spare for travelling regularly as he had when he was a boy, for raising his large family, for renovating his house and his church and for writing the astonishing number of books, pamphlets and magazine articles that actually paid for these other activities. The current estimate of publications, including books, hymns and magazine articles is at least 1200. To most people who have heard his name it is as the writer of a favourite hymn probably "Onward Christian Soldiers", but of all the achievements of his 90 years on this Earth, he himself rated most highly that of collecting the folk songs which were published as "Songs of the West".
He worked on the collection for 12 years and travelled hundreds of miles though Devon and Cornwall to visit the old singers in their homes, their pubs and in the fields. He was not, himself, a good musician and was helped in his work by two other men, Dr Fredrick Bussell and the Reverend H W Fleetwood Sheppard. When time permitted, one or other would join Baring Gould on his visits and take down the melodies while Baring Gould noted down the words. Baring Gould could not, in his era, have published the songs as recovered since they were too robust for Victorian ears. Rather than publish with blank spaces or dotted lines as some other collectors chose to do, Sabine took the course of modifying the words where necessary. He has been criticised for this over the years but it is hard, in reality, to see what other course of action was open to him.
It was originally intended that ‘Songs and Ballads of the West’ would be published in three parts but, in fact, it ran to four. It was not, of course, the first book about folk songs since there had been several collections of ballads published in the 17th and 18th century. It was not even the first book of songs collected directly from the singers since the Reverend John Broadwood had published his Sussex Songs privately in 1843. It was, however, the most ambitious collection made to that date and the book set the pattern for the first folk revival at the end of the last century. The conventions devised by Baring Gould were to become the standard practice and, in particular, his recognition that the songs were linked to individual singers who were usually identified in the text. This, coupled with the way he writes about his singers as friends, if not actually equals, is what is special about Baring Gould.
That first edition was written with Fleetwood Sheppard as musical editor and the majority of arrangements in the book were Sheppard’s creations, many of them very elaborate. Baring-Gould and Sheppard also produced a second collection, ‘A Garland of Country Song’ in 1895. A new edition of ‘Songs of the West’, published in 1905, was very different to the first since Cecil Sharp took over the musical editorship with a number of new arrangements replacing those by Sheppard.
For a few years at the beginning of the century Sharp and Baring Gould worked closely together and Sharp was a regular visitor to Lewtrenchard. As well as ‘Songs of the West’ they produced "English Folk Songs for Schools" in 1907 and in the same year Sharp dedicated his "English Folk Song some conclusions" to Baring Gould. What exactly caused their friendship to fade is unclear but Baring Gould's references to Sharp in later years became less flattering. He certainly believed that Sharp's arrangements were not generally as good as Sheppard's. It is also likely that he was unhappy that Sharp had gained the reputation as the man who saved English Folk Song and that his own part in the first revival had been overlooked.
Baring Gould died in 1924 at Lewtrenchard, a few days short of his 90th birthday. He was buried in his own churchyard just across the road from his house. He is remembered fondly in Lewtrenchard and West Devon. To Folk Revival singers in Devon and Cornwall he has left a legacy that will be a source of joy for centuries to come.

Martin Graebe

== External links ==
[http://www.greenjack.btinternet.co.uk/ Sabine Baring-Gould and the folk songs of South-West England] - site maintained by [[Martin Graebe]]. Oversue for updating (which is in hand) but still a useful source of ibformation about Baring-Gould's song collecting activity

[http://folk-network.com/miscellany/baring_gould/baring-gould.html Essay on English Folk-Music] - from volume VII of Baring-Gould's ''English Minstrelsie: a National Monument of English Song''.

[http://www.sbgas.org The website of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society] Contains a growing collection of articles about Baring-Gould from the Society's newsletter, reflecting the broader sweep of his life.

== References ==
Brenda Colloms, ‘Gould, Sabine Baring- (1834–1924)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30587

Bernarr Rainbow: 'Baring-Gould, Sabine', [[Grove Music Online]] ed. L. Macy, http://www.grovemusic.com

== Publications ==

Baring-Gould was an astonishingly prolific writer. His bibliographer, Roger Bristow, currently places the number of publications that he had to his name at more than 1,240. For a short list of his folk music books go to [http://www.greenjack.btinternet.co.uk/biblio.html A brief bibliography]

[[Category:Collector]]

Sabine Baring-Gould

2007-07-10T18:38:08Z

MartinGraebe:

Sabine Baring-Gould

2007-07-10T18:28:55Z

MartinGraebe:

Sabine Baring-Gould

2007-07-10T17:37:39Z

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2007-07-10T17:34:45Z

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