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HMV C 1072 Brighton Camp, Ribbon Dance arranged Sharp, Black Diamonds Band, Cecil Sharp

by: Cecil Sharp

Publication date: 1922

Topics: shellac, folk music, dance music, country dance, military band, Cecil Sharp, Black Diamonds Band, HMV, His Master’s Voice, 78 rpm

Language: English

Cecil Sharp (1859-1924)

Country Dance Tunes Set 1, London: Novello, 1909

1. Brighton Camp

3. The Ribbon Dance

Military band (billed on disc labels as Black Diamonds Band)
Cecil Sharp (conductor)

Recorded: 21 June 1922, Room No.1, Gramophone Company, Hayes, Middlesex
Format: coarse-groove, 78 rpm, 12” / 30 cm, acoustical
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

Country Dance Tunes Set 1 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 Camp

Ribbon Dance

Fuller 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)

Cecil Sharp recorded fifteen country dance tunes with this band during their 21 June 1922 session; the remaining thirteen, issued on HMV B 1370, B 1371, B 1372 (10” / 25 cm), C 1073 and C 1074 (12” / 30 cm), are not available for transfer

Many thanks to David Mason for additional discographical information

Contemporary sources
Unsigned review, The Observer, Vol.131 No.6846, Sunday 13 August 1922, p.4