The Holly and the Ivy ....
"A good many carols use folk melodies", Monsignor Philip Whitmore tells us , " so
it's quite hard to say just how old they are. In their present form, they're usually
from the 19th or 20th centuries. That's to say , they were discovered and arranged
for publication and popular use in recent times. One of the great pioneers of research
into English folksong was a man called Sharp who discovered for us at Chipping Camden,
'The Holly and the Ivy ".All this and more in music historian's, Monsignor Philip Whitmore's Christmas carol special.
A programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick .
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