Editing Cecil Sharp (section)

===Folk song in schools===
In 1902, at a time when state-sponsored mass public schooling was in its infancy, Sharp, then a music teacher, compiled a song book for use in schools.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sharp |first=Cecil |date=1902 |title= A Book of British Song for Home and School |location=London |publisher= John Murray |pages=183}}</ref> This contained a mixture of patriotic 'National Songs' (''The British Grenadiers'', ''Rule Britannia'', etc.) and folk material. As his knowledge of folk song grew, he rejected the 'National Songs', which were absent from the 1906 collection ''English Folk Songs for Schools'', co-written with Baring-Gould and using Sharp's piano arrangements.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baring-Gould |first1=Sabine |last2=Sharp |first2=Cecil |date=1906 |title= English Folk Songs for Schools |location=London |publisher= Curwen |pages=183 }}</ref> Sharp was determined that folk song should be at the heart of the curriculum, and fought the Board of Education in 1905 over their list of songs recommended for schools, which included many 'National Songs'. His colleagues [[Frank Kidson]] and [[Lucy Broadwood]], did not share his view, however, and the committee of the Folk-Song Society voted to approve the Board's list, causing a rift with Sharp.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Knevett |first=Arthur |date=2018 |title=Folk Songs for Schools: Cecil Sharp, Patriotism and ''The National Song Book'' |journal=Folk Music Journal |volume= 11|issue=3 |pages=47–71}}</ref>