Scrapbook on Cecil Sharp's English Folk Dance Society school, 1920-1931

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Scrapbook on Cecil Sharp's English Folk Dance Society school, 1920-1931

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This collection comprises a scrapbook of correspondence, photographs, clippings, brochures, and programs relating to Cecil Sharp's English Folk Dance Society school at Aldeburgh, England. The scrapbook was kept by Mrs. Dudley Hervey.

0.2 linear feet (1 box)

eng,

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6665687

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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Sharp, Cecil J. (Cecil James), 1859-1924

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Epithet: folk music collector British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x0001a9 English musician and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dragonfield, Uxbridge, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1914 Oct. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662515 English folk music collector and editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Dragonfield, Uxbridge, ...

Hervey, Dudley, Mrs.

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Biography Mrs. Dudley Hervey was the headmistress of the Belstead House School in Aldeburgh, England, where the English Folk Dance Society school was held beginning in 1922. Hervey kept a scrapbook related to Cecil Sharp, the musicologist, and founder of the English Folk Dance Society. Sharp is credited with collecting and reviving traditional folk songs and dances from the English countryside and reinstating them into the cultura...

English folk dance society

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