Difference between revisions of "Cecil J. Sharp (1916) ''One Hundred English Folk Songs''"

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-Link to the Song Books page[[http://folkopedia.efdss.org/wiki/Song_Books]])
+Links to the [[Song Books]] page and to [[Tune Analysis: How To Dissect, Interpret and Categorize Anglo-American, Celtic and English Folk Melodies]].
-Cecil J. Sharp (1916) ''One Hundred English Folk Songs'' can be freely downloaded from the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) here.[http://imslp.org/wiki/100_English_Folksongs_(Sharp,_Cecil)]
+PDF page images of Cecil J. Sharp (1916) ''One Hundred English Folk Songs'' can be freely downloaded from the Internet Archive here.[https://archive.org/details/onehundredengli00shargoog/page/n11/mode/2up]
+ABC file of all 100 folk songs: [[File:Sharp100.abc]]
-'''31 Sweet Kitty'''
+'''BALLADS'''
-Tune Analysis: Heptatonic. C Dorian. Note how all the A flats are naturalised. If they were not the tune would be C Aeolian.
+'''[[01 Henry Martin]]'''
-Sheet Music (1916) [[File:31SweKit_1916_Sheet_Music-pdf.pdf]]
+'''[[02 Bruton Town]]'''
-Cecil Sharp's Note (1916) [[File:31SweKit_1916_Note.pdf]]
+'''[[03 The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter]]'''
-MIDI Sequence [[File:31SweKit.mid]]
+'''[[04 Robin Hood and the Tanner]]'''
-PDF [[File:31SweKit.pdf]]
+'''[[05 The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies, O!]]'''
-Music XML [[File:31SweKit.xml]]
+'''[[06 Lord Bateman]]'''
-ABC Code
+'''[[07 Barbara Ellen]]'''
-X:31<br>
+'''[[08 Little Sir Hugh]]'''
-T:31 Sweet Kitty<br>
-C::From 'One Hundred English Folk Songs' (1916) <br>
-P:Collected by Cecil J. Sharp<br>
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-L:1/4<br>
-Z:Transcribed by Lewis Jones<br>
-M:3/4<br>
-I:linebreak $<br>
-K:Cm<br>
-Q: 1/4=120<br>
-V:<br>
-V:1<br>
- G | G F G | (=A/B/) c B/ A/ | G F G | B2 B |$ =A c c | G B G | F (B/=A/) D | D2 (C/B,/) | %9<br>
-w: As|he was a-|rid\- * ing and a|ri- ding one|day, He|met prett- y|Kitt- y all|on the * high-|way. Sing *|<br>
- C3/2 D/ E/C/ |$ D B, z | G3/2 =A/ B/A/ | G F G | E (F/E/) D | C2 |] %15<br>
-w: Fol the didd- le|de- ro,|Fol the didd- le|de ro, Sing|le- ro\- * i-|day.|<br>
-W:<br>
-W:<br>
-W:1 As he was a-riding, and a-riding one day,<br>
-W:He met with sweet Kitty all on the highway;<br>
-W:<br>
-W:Chorus Sing fol the diddle dero,<br>
-W:Fol the diddle dero,<br>
-W:Sing le-ro-i-day.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:2 I gave her a wink and she roll'd her black eye;<br>
-W:Thinks I to myself I'll be there by and by.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:3 Come saddle my horse and away I will ride<br>
-W:To meet with sweet Kitty down by the seaside.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:4 Six times he rode round her, but he did not know;<br>
-W:She smiled in his face and said: There goes my beau.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:5 I said: Pretty maiden don't smile in my face,<br>
-W:I do not intend to stay long in this place.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:6 If you'd know my name, you must go and enquire;<br>
-W:I was born in old England, brought up in Yorkshire.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:7 Come, all pretty maidens, whoever you be,<br>
-W:With roving young fellows don't make yourself free.<br>
-W:<br>
+'''[[09 Geordie]]'''
-'''34 The Sprig of Thyme'''
+'''[[10 Lady Maisrie]]'''
-Tune Analysis: In his Note Sharp designates this tune as Aeolian. More precisely, it is either A Aeolian or A Dorian. It is Hexatonic with no F (6th). If the Fs are presumed to be natural the tune is indeed A Aeolian; but if they are presumed to be sharpened the tune is A Dorian.
+'''[[11 The Outlandish Knight]]'''
-Sheet Music (1916) [[File:34SprThy_1916_Sheet_Music.pdf]]
+'''[[12 The Coasts of High Barbary]]'''
-Cecil Sharp's Note (1916) [[File:34SprThy_1916_Note.pdf]]
+'''[[13 The Cruel Mother]]'''
-MIDI Sequence [[File:34SprThy.mid]]
+'''[[14 The Golden Vanity]]'''
-PDF [[File:34SprThy.pdf]]
+'''[[15 Lord Thomas of Winesbury]]'''
-Music XML [[File:34SprThy.xml]]
+'''[[16 The Green Wedding]]'''
-ABC Code:
+'''[[17 The Briery Bush]]'''
-X:34<br>
+'''[[18 Lord Rendal]]'''
-T:34 The Sprig of Thyme<br>
-P:Collected by Cecil J. Sharp<br>
-C:From 'One Hundred English Folk Songs' (1916)<br>
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-L:1/16<br>
-M:4/4<br>
-I:linebreak $<br>
-Q:1/4=100<br>
-K:Aaeo<br>
-V:<br>
-V:1<br>
- A4 | D4 D3 C D4 A3 G | A12 (A2>B2) | (c2>d2) e3 d (B2>d2) c3 B |$ A12 A4 | %5<br>
-w: O|once I had time of my|own, and *|in * my own gard\- * en it|grew. I|<br>
- c3 e d3 c (B2>d2) c3 B | A4 A3 A E4 A4 | E4 E3 E D4 D3 D |$ c6 A2 G4 (3(A2B2c2) | %9<br>
-w: used to know the place * where my|thyme it did grow, But|now it is cov- er'd with|rue, with rue, But * *|<br>
- E4 D3 C D4 A3 G | A8 z4 |] %11<br>
-w: now it is cov- er'd with|rue.|<br>
-W:<br>
-W:<br>
-W:1. Once I had thyme of my own,<br>
-W:And in my own garden it grew;<br>
-W:I used to know the place where my thyme it did grow,<br>
-W:But now it is cover'd with rue, with rue,<br>
-W:But now it is cover'd with rue.<br>
-W:<br>
-W: 2 The rue it is a flourishing thing,<br>
-W:It flourishes by night and by day;<br>
-W:So beware of a young man's flattering tongue,<br>
-W:He will steal your thyme away, away,<br>
-W:He will steal your thyme away.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:3 I sowed my garden full of seeds;<br>
-W:But the small birds they carried them away<br>
-W:In April, May, and in June likewise,<br>
-W:When the small birds sing all day, all day,<br>
-W:When the small birds sing all day.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:4 In June there was a red-a-rosy bud,<br>
-W:And that seem'd the flower for me;<br>
-W:And often times I snatch-ed at the red-a-rosy bud,<br>
-W:Till I gain-ed the willow, willow tree,<br>
-W:Till I gain-ed the willow tree.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:5 O the willow, willow tree it will twist,<br>
-W:And the willow, willow tree it will twine;<br>
-W:And so it was that young and false-hearted man<br>
-W:When he gain-ed this heart of mine, of mine,<br>
-W:When he gain-ed this heart of mine.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:6 O thyme it is a precious, precious thing<br>
-W:On the road that the sun shines upon;<br>
-W:But thyme it is a thing that will bring you to an end,<br>
-W:And that's how my time has gone, has gone,<br>
-W:And that's how my time has gone.<br>
-W:<br>
+'''[[19 Blow Away the Morning Dew]]'''
-'''86 Botany Bay'''
+'''[[20 The Two Magicians]]'''
-Tune Analysis: Heptatonic, E Aeolian.
+'''[[21 The Duke of Bedford]]'''
-Sheet Music (1916) [[File:86BotBay_1916_Sheet_Music.pdf]]
+'''[[22 Death and the Lady]]'''
-Cecil Sharp's Note (1916) [[File:86BotBay_1916_Note.pdf]]
+'''[[23 The Low, Low Lands of Holland]]'''
-MIDI Sequence [[File:86BotBay.mid]]
+'''[[24 The Unquiet Grave ''or'' Cold blows the wind]]'''
-PDF [[File:86BotBay.pdf]]
+'''[[25 The trees they do grow high]]'''
-Music XML [[File:86BotBay.xml]]
+'''[[26 Lord Lovel]]'''
-ABC Code:
+'''[[27 False Lamkin]]'''
-X:86<br>
+'''[[28 Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor]]'''
-T:86 Botany Bay<br>
-P:Collected by Cecil J. Sharp<br>
-C:From 'One Hundred English Folk Songs' (1916)<br>
-Z:Transcribed by Lewis Jones<br>
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-%%rightmargin 1.00cm<br>
-L:1/8<br>
-M:4/4<br>
-I:linebreak $<br>
-Q:1/4=120<br>
-K:G<br>
-V:<br>
-V:1<br>
- B2 | e2 (dc) B2 E2 | A2 (FE) D2 (EF) | (GE)(AG) E2 D2 | E6 (EF) |$ G2 A2 (Bc) (dB) | %6<br>
-w: Come|all young * men of|learn- ing * good a *|warn\- * ing * take by|me, I'll *|have you quit * night *|<br>
- (e2 d2) e2 B2 | d2 d2 e2 (BA) | B6 (EF) |$ G2 A2 (Bc) (dB) | (e2 d2) e2 B2 | d2 f2 (ed) (BA) | %12<br>
-w: walk\- * ing and|shun bad comp- a\- *|y; I'll *|have you quit * night *|walk\- * ing or|else you'll rue * the *|<br>
- B6 d2 | e2 d2 B2 E2 |$ (A2 FE) D2 (EF) | (GE) (AG) EE D2 | E4 z2 | %17<br>
-w: day, And|you will be trans-|por\- * * ted and *|go * to * Bot- an- y|Bay.|<br>
-W:<br>
-W:<br>
-W:1 Come, all young men of learning good, a warning take by me.<br>
-W:I'll have you quit night-walking and shun bad company;<br>
-W:I'll have you quit night-walking or else you'll rue the day,<br>
-W:And you will be transported and go to Botany Bay.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:2 I was brought up in London town, a place I know full well;<br>
-W:Brought up by honest parents, the truth to you I'll tell.<br>
-W:Brought up by honest parents, who loved me tenderly,<br>
-W:Till I became a roving blade to prove my destiny.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:3 My character was taken, and I was sent to gaol.<br>
-W:My parents tried to clear me but nothing would prevail.<br>
-W:'Twas at our Rutland sessions the Judge to me did say:<br>
-W:The Jury's found you guilty, you must go to Botany Bay.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:4 To see my poor old father as he stood at the bar;<br>
-W:Likewise my dear old mother her old gray locks she tore.<br>
-W:And in tearing of her old gray locks these words to me she did say:<br>
-W:O son! O son! what hast thou done? Thou art bound for Botany Bay.<br>
-W:<br>
-W:NOTE<br>
-W:<br>
-W:I do not know of any published versions of this song. I made use of the tune in Mr. Granville Barker's production of<br>
-W:Hardy's 'Dynasts,' setting the words of the "Trafalgar" song to it. <br>
-W:<br>
+'''[[29 The Death of Queen Jane]]'''
-''''''
+'''SONGS'''
-Tune Analysis:
+'''[[30 Farewell, Nancy]]'''
-Sheet Music (1916) [[File:]]
+'''[[31 Sweet Kitty]]'''
-Cecil Sharp's Note (1916) [[File:]]
+'''[[32 The Crystal Spring]]'''
-MIDI Sequence [[File:]]
+'''[[33 The Seeds of Love]]'''
-PDF [[File:]]
+'''[[34 The Sprig of Thyme]]'''
-Music XML [[File:]]
+'''[[35 The Cuckoo]]'''
-ABC Code:
+'''[[36 Blackbirds and Thrushes]]'''
+'''[[37 The Drowned Lover]]'''
-''''''
+'''[[38 The Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell]]'''
-Tune Analysis:
+'''[[39 O Waly, Waly]]'''
-Sheet Music (1916) [[File:]]
+'''[[40 Green Bushes]]'''
-Cecil Sharp's Note (1916) [[File:]]
+'''[[41 Bedlam]]'''
-MIDI Sequence [[File:]]
+'''[[42 The Bold Fisherman]]'''
-PDF [[File:]]
+'''[[43 The Rambling Sailor]]'''
-Music XML [[File:]]
+'''[[44 Dabbling in the Dew]]'''
-ABC Code:
+'''[[45 The Saucy Sailor]]'''
+'''[[46 Fanny Blair]]'''
-''''''
+'''[[47 Arise, Arise]]'''
-Tune Analysis:
+'''[[48 Searching for Lambs]]'''
-Sheet Music (1916) [[File:]]
+'''[[49 Green Broom]]'''
-Cecil Sharp's Note (1916) [[File:]]
+'''[[50 Bonny Lighter Boy]]'''
-MIDI Sequence [[File:]]
+'''[[51 The Sweet Primeroses]]'''
-PDF [[File:]]
+'''[[52 My Bonny, Bonny Boy]]'''
-Music XML [[File:]]
+'''[[53a As I walked through the meadows. (''First Version'')]]'''
-ABC Code:
+'''[[53b As I walked through the meadows. (''Second Version'')]]'''
+'''[[54 Erin's Lovely Home]]'''
-''''''
+'''[[55 The True Lover's Farewell]]'''
-Tune Analysis:
+'''[[56 High Germany]]'''
-Sheet Music (1916) [[File:]]
+'''[[57 Sweet Lovely Joan]]'''
-Cecil Sharp's Note (1916) [[File:]]
+'''[[58 My Boy Willie]]'''
-MIDI Sequence [[File:]]
+'''[[59 Whistle, Daughter, Whistle]]'''
-PDF [[File:]]
+'''[[60 Mowing the Barley]]'''
-Music XML [[File:]]
+'''[[61 I'm Seventeen Come Sunday]]'''
-ABC Code:
+'''[[62 The Lark in the Morn]]'''
+'''[[63 Hares on the Mountains]]'''
+'''[[64 O Sally, my dear]]'''
+'''[[65 Gently, Johnny, my Jingalo]]'''
+'''[[66 The Keys of Canterbury]]'''
+'''[[67 My Man John]]'''
+'''[[68 O No, John]]'''
+'''[[69 The Brisk Young Bachelor]]'''
+'''[[70 Ruggleton's Daughter of Iero]]'''
+'''[[71 William Taylor]]'''
+'''[[72 Sweet William]]'''
+'''[[73 The Wachet Sailor]]'''
+'''[[74 Scarborough Fair]]'''
+'''[[75 Brimbledon Fair, ''or'' Young Ramble-Away]]'''
+'''[[76 Bridgwater Fair]]'''
+'''[[77 The Crabfish]]'''
+'''[[78 The Beggar]]'''
+'''[[79 The Keeper]]'''
+'''[[80 The Three Sons]]'''
+'''[[81 Jack Hall]]'''
+'''[[82 Driving away at the Smoothing Iron]]'''
+'''[[83 The Robber]]'''
+'''[[84 John Barleycorn]]'''
+'''[[85 Poor Old Horse]]'''
+'''[[86 Botany Bay]]'''
+'''[[87 Admiral Benbow]]'''
+'''[[88 Bold Nelson's Praise]]'''
+'''[[89 Spanish Ladies]]'''
+'''[[90 The Ship in Distress]]'''
+'''[[91 Come all you worthy Christian men]]'''
+'''[[92 Wassail Song]]'''
+'''[[93 It's a rosebud in June]]'''
+'''[[94 A Brisk Young Sailor]]'''
+'''[[95 The Sheep-Shearing]]'''
+'''ACCUMULATIVE'''
+'''[[96 The Twelve Days of Christmas]]'''
+'''[[97 The Ten Commandments]]'''
+'''[[98 The Tree in the Wood]]'''
+'''[[99 The Barley-Mow]]'''
+'''[[100 One man shall mow my meadow]]'''

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