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The ballad literature and popular music of the olden time : a history of the ancient songs, ballads, and of the dance tunes of England, with numerous anecdotes and entire ballads : also a short account of the minstrelsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The music of the waters. A collection of the sailors' chanties, or working songs of the sea, of all maritime nations. Boatmen's fishermen's, and rowing songs, and water legendsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The Indians' book : an offeringAuthor: the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race
Robin Hood: a collection of all the ancient poems, songs and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlawAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The child's own music book : the largest collection of mothers' and childrens' songs, musical games and piano music ever published, covering completely all phases of child lifeAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Kaffir folk-lore, or, A selection from the traditional tales current among the people living on the eastern border of the Cape colony [microform] : with copious explanatory notesAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The tonic sol-fa music reader : a course of instruction and practice in the tonic sol-fa method of teaching singing, with a choice collection of music suitable for day schools and singing schoolsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Basuto traditions : being a record of the traditional history of the more important of the tribes which form the Basuto nation of to-day up to the time of their being absorbedAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Guernsey folk lore : a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that islandAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Redemption songs : a choice collection of 1000 hymns and choruses for evangelistic meetings, solo singers, choirs and the homeAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The book of Scottish song : a comprehensive collection of the most approved songs of Scotland : with historical and critical notices regarding them and their authors and an essay on the song-writers of ScotlandAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendantsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Legend in Japanese art : a description of historical episodes, legendary characters, folk-lore myths, religious symbolism illustrated in the arts of old Japan.Author: Classic Public Domain
Memoirs on the history, folk-lore, and distribution of the races of the North Western Provinces of India; being an amplified edition of the original supplemental glossary of Indian termsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Gammer Gurton's garland, or, The nursery Parnassus : a choice collection of pretty songs and verses for the amusement of all little good children who can neither read nor runAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The Hymn book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church : being a collection of hymns, sacred songs and chants, designed to supersede all others hitherto made use of in that Church ; selected from various authorsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Hausa folk-tales : the Hausa text of the stories in Hausa superstitions and customs, in Folk-lore, and in other publicationsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Lutheran prayer book: for the use of families and individuals: partly original but chiefly compiled, with introductory remarks on family prayer, together with a selection of hymns, and music adapted to themAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Donizetti's opera L'elisire d'amore : containing the Italian text, with and English translation and the music of all the principal airsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Glossaire etymologique et historique des patois et des parlers de l'Anjou; comprenant le glossaire proprement dit, des dialogues, contes, récits et nouvelles en patois, le folk-lore de la provinceAuthor: Classic Public Domain
A dictionary of English and folk-names of British birds; with their history, meaning, and first usage, and the folk-lore, weather-lore, legends, etc., relating to the more familiar speciesAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Catalogue of all 65 and 88 note music rolls issued for the pianola & pianola piano, including metrostyle & themodist rolls. Up to July 1914Author: Classic Public Domain
Folk Songs Ballads and Traditional Music Book Collection
Discover 125 carefully selected public-domain books about folk songs ballads and traditional music. This focused archive brings together practical manuals, illustrated references and important historical works in one searchable collection.
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High-interest historical editions selected for relevance and readability
Useful for collectors, researchers, family historians and lifelong learners
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English and Scottish popular ballads;
A selection of children's songs and choruses
Ships, sea songs and shanties
The English and Scottish popular ballads
Seneca myths and folk tales /
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Old Irish folk music and songs : a collection of 842 Irish airs and songs, hitherto unpublished
The ballad literature and popular music of the olden time : a history of the ancient songs, ballads, and of the dance tunes of England, with numerous anecdotes and entire ballads : also a short account of the minstrels
Children's rhymes, children's games, children's songs, children's stories : a book for bairns and big folk
English folk-rhymes, a collection of traditional verses relating to places and persons, customs, superstitions, etc
The music of the waters. A collection of the sailors' chanties, or working songs of the sea, of all maritime nations. Boatmen's fishermen's, and rowing songs, and water legends
The Indians' book : an offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race
English folk songs from the southern Appalachians
Robin Hood: a collection of all the ancient poems, songs and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw
On the trail of negro folk-songs
The golden book of favorite songs : a treasury of the best songs of our people (202 songs, 192 of which are with music)
The child's own music book : the largest collection of mothers' and childrens' songs, musical games and piano music ever published, covering completely all phases of child life
Kaffir folk-lore, or, A selection from the traditional tales current among the people living on the eastern border of the Cape colony [microform] : with copious explanatory notes
The national song book : a complete collection of the folk-songs, carols, and rounds suggested by the Board of Education (1905)
Folk Songs from Somerset
Naval songs and ballads
Songs and ballads of the West : a collection made from the mouths of the people
The swallow book; the story of the swallow told in legends, fables, folk songs, proverbs, omens and riddles of many lands
Old-time songs and ballads of Ireland
Sacred songs and solos : twelve hundred hymns
History of the Cherokee Indians and their legends and folk lore
The tonic sol-fa music reader : a course of instruction and practice in the tonic sol-fa method of teaching singing, with a choice collection of music suitable for day schools and singing schools
The Highland Bagpipe: Its History, Literature, and Music
Songs of a sourdough
Canadian Rose Bud : song book, containing all the popular songs of the day
Salvation Army songs
Legend in Japanese art; a description of historical episodes, legendary characters, folk-lore myths, religious symbolism
On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of music
The Nandi, their language and folk-lore
Der Rosenkavalier. The rose-bearer. Op. 59. Comedy for music in three acts by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. English version by Alfred Kalisch
Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Cyclopedia of music and musicians
British goblins : Welsh folk-lore, fairy mythology, legends and traditions
International who's who in music and musical gazetteer
Basuto traditions : being a record of the traditional history of the more important of the tribes which form the Basuto nation of to-day up to the time of their being absorbed
The souls of black folk, essays and sketches
The soldier and death : a Russian folk tale
Guernsey folk lore : a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island
Redemption songs : a choice collection of 1000 hymns and choruses for evangelistic meetings, solo singers, choirs and the home
Lyrical ballads
Tales; Kashmiri stories and songs;
Jacobean crewel work and traditional designs
The book of French songs;
Christ in song hymnal : containing over 700 best hymns and sacred songs new and old
Slave songs of the United States
The New Grove Dictionary Of Music And Musicians 5 Ed. 2nd
Music Lovers Encyclopedia
The book of Scottish song : a comprehensive collection of the most approved songs of Scotland : with historical and critical notices regarding them and their authors and an essay on the song-writers of Scotland
The English and Scottish popular ballads
Philippine folk tales
The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants
Legend in Japanese art : a description of historical episodes, legendary characters, folk-lore myths, religious symbolism illustrated in the arts of old Japan.
A selection of children's songs and choruses
Traditional methods of pattern designing; an introduction to the study of the decorative art
Lyrical ballads, 1798
Ships, sea songs and shanties
Memoirs on the history, folk-lore, and distribution of the races of the North Western Provinces of India; being an amplified edition of the original supplemental glossary of Indian terms
Gammer Gurton's garland, or, The nursery Parnassus : a choice collection of pretty songs and verses for the amusement of all little good children who can neither read nor run
Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown collection of music in the Public library of the city of Boston
The Hymn book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church : being a collection of hymns, sacred songs and chants, designed to supersede all others hitherto made use of in that Church ; selected from various authors
Folk-etymology; a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy
Judaism in music (Das Judenthum in der Musik) being the original essay together with the later supplement
Hausa folk-tales : the Hausa text of the stories in Hausa superstitions and customs, in Folk-lore, and in other publications
English and Scottish popular ballads;
Hausa superstitions and customs: an introduction to the folk-lore and the folk
The golden treasury of Irish songs and lyrics
Lutheran prayer book: for the use of families and individuals: partly original but chiefly compiled, with introductory remarks on family prayer, together with a selection of hymns, and music adapted to them
Folk-lore and folk-stories of Wales
The Roxburghe ballads
Plant lore, legends, and lyrics. Embracing the myths, traditions, superstitions, and folk-lore of the plant kingdom
Donizetti's opera L'elisire d'amore : containing the Italian text, with and English translation and the music of all the principal airs
Folk-lore of Shakespeare
Glossaire etymologique et historique des patois et des parlers de l'Anjou; comprenant le glossaire proprement dit, des dialogues, contes, récits et nouvelles en patois, le folk-lore de la province
Robert Burns in other tongues; a critical review of the translations of the songs & poems of Robert Burns
The Algonquin legends of New England : or, Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes
West African folk-tales
Korean folk tales: imps, ghosts and fairies
A dictionary of English and folk-names of British birds; with their history, meaning, and first usage, and the folk-lore, weather-lore, legends, etc., relating to the more familiar species
Seneca myths and folk tales /
The art of music : a comprehensive library of information for music lovers and musicians
The Gaelic songs of Duncan MacIntyre
The Ainu and their folk-lore
Saco Valley settlements and families : historical, biographical, genealogical, traditional, and legendary
Hawaiian folk tales; a collection of native legends
The American history and encyclopedia of music ..
The Robinsons and their kin folk
WHO'S WHO IN MUSIC
Catalog of music for the pianola, pianola piano and aeriola
Leabhar na Feinne : heroic Gaelic ballads collected in Scotland chiefly from 1512 to 1871 ...
Some Kappa alpha songs
A dictionary of music and musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) Volume 3
The ballads of Marko Kraljevic
The Bird Of Time; Songs Of Life Death And The Spring
The golden treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language. With additional poems
Ballads of a Bohemian
Cossack fairy tales and folk tales
Negro folk rhymes, wise and otherwise, with a study
Rustic speech and folk-lore
The journal of American folk-lore
Bellini's opera Norma : containing the Italian text, with an English translation, and the music of all the principal airs
The Subanu; studies of a sub-Visayan mountain folk of Mindanao
Mighty Mikko; a book of Finnish fairy tales and folk tales
British music publishers, printers and engravers: London, Provincial, Scottish, and Irish
Twenty-four Italian songs and arias of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, for medium low voice
Scottish fairy and folk tales
The counting-out rhymes of children: their antiquity, origin, and wide distribution; a study in folk-lore
Songs for intermediate grades
Catalogue of all 65 and 88 note music rolls issued for the pianola & pianola piano, including metrostyle & themodist rolls. Up to July 1914
Catalogue of printed music published between 1487 and 1800 now in the British Museum
Chinese fables and folk stories
History of the Philharmonic society of London 1813-1912. A record of a hundred years' work in the cause of music
The legends and myths of Hawaii : the fables and folk-lore of a strange people
Folk lore notes
Dictionary of music and musicians : American supplement ...
Johann Sebastian Bach : his work and influence on the music of Germany, 1685-1750
Lullabies and slumber songs, with a few other child verses
English fairy and other folk tales
Folk-Lore In The Testament Vol-I
A GENERAL HISTORY OF MUSIC
[Songs and sonnets of the Earl of Surrey]
Ireland in fiction; a guide to Irish novels, tales, romances, and folk-lore
Hausa sayings & folk-lore; with a vocabulary of new words
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