Cecil Sharp (1859-1924)Country Dance Tunes Set 1, London: Novello, 1909
1. Brighton Camp
3. The Ribbon Dance
The above volume contains arrangements by Sharp for solo piano. It is not known who made the arrangements for band recorded on this disc
Set 1 was the first of eleven published in conjunction with a series titled
The Country Dance Book, which contained the ‘movements’ of each dance alongside the bare tune:
Brighton CampRibbon DanceFuller notations for each dance were also published, alongside Sharp’s piano arrangements, in The English Country Dance Graded Series:
Brighton Camp (
notation;
music)
Ribbon Dance (
notation;
music)
Black Diamonds Band
Cecil Sharp (conductor)
Recorded: 21 June 1922, Gramophone Company studios, Hayes, Middlesex
Format: coarse-groove, 78 rpm, 12” / 30 cm, mono
Matrices: Cc 1511-1 / Cc 1514-2
Face numbers: 2-0331 / 2-0332
Issued: by August 1922
Catalogue number: C 1072
Transfer, restoration and photographs: Andrew Hallifax for DogintheManger, from original copy held by Sound Archive, King’s College, London
Contemporary press sourcesUnsigned review,
The Observer, Vol.131 No.6846, Sunday 13 August 1922, p.4
Cecil Sharp recorded six country dance tunes with the Black Diamonds Band during their 21 June 1922 session; the remaining four, issued on HMV C 1073 and C 1074, are not available for transfer
