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HAVPCD292 – Among the Leaves so Green English and Scottish Folk-songs

Interest in folk culture was a product of the Romantic movement. The first manifestations were in Germany… The English Folk Song Society was founded in 1898, and the systematic collection of folk-songs began. ‘Literate’ musicians such as Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger went out into the rural areas of Britain and noted down traditional songs from the lips of the singers who remembered them… Many collections were issued…