The cult of folk-music in England is one of the remarkable interests of modern times. Up until the end of the nineteenth-century, there were efforts to collect folk-song, but more with a belief in its antiquarian interest than with an idea that discoveries would be of any particular artistic importance. Cecil Sharp, Martin Shaw, and Ralph Vaughan Williams were amongst the few optimists who believed folk-music could still be recovered, taught, and applied artistically.
Credits
Tyler Pasta, School of Music, University of Ottawa