One Hundred English Folk Songs: For Medium Voice: For Medium Voice, Edited by Cecil I. Sharp (Dover Song Collections)

Love the books construcion, its content. It would have been even better printed on a modern 100 gram bright white paper. The paper reminds me of old school books. Print is a bit fluffy on an off white paper. Just getting back to folk so looking for good clear print. If I had wanted old I would have purchased from an antique book shop. An indication on the actual score where that version of the song comes from as some songs travelled around the country picking up not only slightly different words but also melodies. All in all a little dissappointed.

For anyone interested in folksong musicology, this is an "unabridged, unaltered republication of the original 1916 edition". It includes the fascinating insights of one of our greatest English folk music collectors within his quite detailed notes into the songs. Each song has a piano accompaniment - No chords are given, so guitarists and accordionists will have to work these out themselves. "Medium voice" indicates that the tunes have been transposed to fit within the range of the treble clef - rarely hitting top F, and only occasionally down to middle C or the B just below. Good size of print, clear enough even for my eyes to see in dull light, though the "Notes to the songs" are in a font pitch around 8 or 9 - need reading glasses for those! The "Lay flat sewn binding" does help the volume stay where you put it!

Lots of folksongs here which we still know today, and lots which we don't and deserve to be sung more! I love the arrangements that Cecil Sharp puts with them, though some people might say they're too complicated and over-the-top for such simple melodies. He writes a history of each song, as far as he knows it, which is really interesting, especially the for ones which are connected. Sometimes more than one version of each song is given.

this book of songs not only enhances the collection I have already but provides me with more versions of songs I already have. Many of these songs I find both historically interesting and musically interesting. It is almost a book on the social history of the UK. Only shame Sharpe isn't as widly known as he was last century or we'd have more of his work published.

Disappointing. Poor paper quality. When I looked through the song list before buying, I thought there were more songs I knew. The book was bigger than expected. Unfortunately I missed the ‘return window’ due to being away/busy or it would have gone back.

WARNING: In spite of the music other reviewers say this book contains, it is a reprint in fact of the preface ONLY, and contains scores of no folksongs whatsoever. The reviews obviously refer to another edition which reprints the entire 1916 volume. This one does not. Worthless.

This was a gift to a local folk singer & Morris Dancer. Cecil Sharp collected a big repetoire of songs from our town so the book was of special interest.

A lot of written comments on the score