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English and Scottish ballads. Ed. by Francis James Child

Author:
Child, Francis James 1825-1896  Search this
De Vincent Collection of American Sheet Music  Search this
Physical description:
8 v. 17 cm
Type:
Bibliography
Date:
1860
1860 [c1857-58]
Topic:
Ballads, English  Search this
Ballads. Scots  Search this
Ballads, Scots  Search this
Call number:
PR1181 .C53 1860
PR1181.C53 1860
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_365030

More pious friends and drunken companions : songs and ballads of conviviality / collected by Frank Shay ; magnificently illuminated by John Held, Jr. ; musical arrangement for any degree of inebriety, by Helen Ramsey

Author:
Shay, Frank 1888-1954  Search this
Ramsey, Helen  Search this
Held, John 1889-1958  Search this
De Vincent Collection of American Sheet Music  Search this
Physical description:
190 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Scores
Place:
United States
Date:
1928
C1928
Topic:
Ballads, English  Search this
Folk songs, English  Search this
Drinking songs  Search this
Call number:
ML3551.S52X 1928
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_368087

Ballads migrant in New England, by the collectors, Helen Hartness Flanders and Marguerite Olney. With an introd. by Robert Frost

Author:
Flanders, Helen Hartness 1890-1972  Search this
Olney, Marguerite  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 248 p. 25 cm
Type:
Scores
Place:
New England
Date:
1953
[1953]
Topic:
Folk songs, English  Search this
Ballads, English  Search this
Call number:
M1629.F58B3X 1953
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_355761

Bawdy ballads and lusty lyrics : [a curious collection of somewhat salty classics seldom sung in Sunday school / edited by John Henry Johnson]

Author:
Johnson, John Henry  Search this
De Vincent Collection of American Sheet Music  Search this
Physical description:
128 p. illus. 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1950
[1950]
Topic:
Ballads, English  Search this
Ballads  Search this
Call number:
PR1175.J57 1950X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_365014

The British broadside ballad and its music, by Claude M. Simpson

Author:
Simpson, Claude M (Claude Mitchell) 1910-  Search this
Physical description:
xxxiii, 922 p. 26 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1966
[1966]
Topic:
Ballads, English--History and criticism  Search this
Folk songs, English--History and criticism  Search this
Call number:
ML2831 .S39X
ML2831.S39X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_34358

Devil's ditties : being stories of the Kentucky mountain people / told by Jean Thomas, with the songs they sing ; Cyril Mullen drew the illustrations

Author:
Thomas, Jeanette Bell 1881-  Search this
Physical description:
vii, [1], 180 p. illus. 27 cm
Type:
Scores
Place:
Kentucky
Date:
1931
Topic:
Ballads, English  Search this
Folk songs, English  Search this
Folk music  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
ML3551.T4X 1931
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_365151

The new Green mountain songster : traditional folk songs of Vermont, collected, transcribed, & edited by Helen Hartness Flanders, Elizabeth Flanders Ballard, George Brown & Phillips Barry

Author:
Flanders, Helen Hartness 1890-1972  Search this
Ballard, Elizabeth Flanders  Search this
Brown, George 1901-  Search this
Barry, Phillips 1880-1937  Search this
De Vincent Collection of American Sheet Music  Search this
Physical description:
xx, 278 p. facsims. 24 cm
Type:
Scores
Place:
Vermont
Date:
1939
Topic:
Folk songs, English  Search this
Ballads, English  Search this
Call number:
M1629.F58G8X 1939
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_365222

The Universal songster, or, Museum of mirth : forming the most complete, extensive, and valuable collection of ancient and modern songs in the English language, with a copious and classified index ... / Embellished with a ... frontispiece and 29 wood-cuts designed by George and Robert Cruikshank, and engraved by J. R. Marshall

Author:
Cruikshank, George 1792-1878  Search this
Cruikshank, Robert 1789-1856  Search this
De Vincent Collection of American Sheet Music  Search this
Physical description:
3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1830
1839
[183-?]
Topic:
Songs, English--Texts  Search this
Ballads, English  Search this
Call number:
PR1187 .U58
PR1187.U58
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_365963

Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads / collected by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax; Edward N. Waters, music editor

Author:
Lomax, John A (John Avery) 1867-1948  Search this
Lomax, Alan 1915-2002  Search this
Waters, Edward N (Edward Neighbor) 1906-1991  Search this
De Vincent Collection of American Sheet Music  Search this
Physical description:
xxxviii, 431 p. : facsim. ; 24 cm
Type:
Songs and music
Place:
United States
Date:
1946
[1946, c1938]
Topic:
Cowboys  Search this
Ballads, English  Search this
Folk songs, English  Search this
Call number:
PS595.C6 L83 1946
PS595.C6 L83 1946
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_365970

Old ballads, historical and narrative, with some of modern date : now first collected, and reprinted from rare copies and mss. : with notes / by Thomas Evans

Author:
Evans, Thomas 1742-1784  Search this
Former owner:
Shankland, Edward Clapp DSI  Search this
DeVincent, Sam 1918- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
4 v. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Books
Date:
1784
Topic:
Ballads, English  Search this
Songs, English  Search this
Call number:
PR1181 .O44 1784
PR1181.O44 1784
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_368649

A treasury of American song / text by Olin Downes and Elie Siegmeister ; music arranged by Elie Siegmeister

Author:
Downes, Olin 1886-1955  Search this
Siegmeister, Elie 1909-1991  Search this
De Vincent Collection of American Sheet Music  Search this
Physical description:
408 p. 32 cm
Type:
Scores
Place:
United States
Date:
1943
[1943]
Topic:
Folk songs  Search this
Folk songs--History and criticism  Search this
Ballads, English  Search this
Call number:
M1629.D748T72X 1943
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_366813

The coffee house songbook / collected and edited by Jay Edwards ; music transcribed and edited by Charles Sens ; drawings from the sketchbooks of Irwin Rosenhouse

Author:
Edwards, Jay  Search this
Physical description:
240 p. illus. 28 cm
Type:
Scores
Place:
United States
Date:
1966
Topic:
Folk songs, English  Search this
Ballads, English  Search this
Call number:
M1629.E257C6X 1966
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_375470

Read 'em and weep; the songs you forgot to remember, by Sigmund Spaeth

Author:
Spaeth, Sigmund Gottfried 1885-1965  Search this
De Vincent Collection of American Sheet Music  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 267 p. illus., plates. 26 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1939
Topic:
Ballads, English  Search this
Folk songs, English  Search this
Call number:
ML3551 .S61 1939
ML3551.S61 1939
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_364976

Folk songs of old New England, collected and edited by Eloise Hubbard Linscott. With an introduction by James M. Carpenter

Author:
Linscott, Eloise Hubbard  Search this
De Vincent Collection of American Sheet Music  Search this
Physical description:
xxi, 337 p. 24 cm
Type:
Scores
Place:
New England
Date:
1939
Topic:
Folk songs, English  Search this
Ballads, English  Search this
Singing games  Search this
Call number:
M1629.L64 F66 1939
M1629.L64F66 1939
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_365234

English and Scottish popular ballads

Author:
Child, Francis James 1825-1896  Search this
Sargent, Helen Child  Search this
Kittredge, George Lyman 1860-1941  Search this
De Vincent Collection of American Sheet Music  Search this
Physical description:
xxxi, 729 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
England
Scotland
Date:
1904
[c1904]
Topic:
Ballads, English--Texts  Search this
Ballads, English--Bibliography  Search this
Call number:
PR1181.C5 1904X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_365591

America sings; stories and songs of our country's growing, collected and told by Carl Carmer

Author:
Carmer, Carl Lamson 1893-1976  Search this
Stringham, Edwin John 1890-1974  Search this
De Vincent Collection of American Sheet Music  Search this
Physical description:
243 p. illus. (part col.) 26 cm
Type:
Scores
Place:
United States
Date:
1942
Topic:
Folk songs, English  Search this
Ballads, English  Search this
Call number:
M1629.C225A6X 1942
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_364322

Frontier ballads, heard and gathered by Charles J. Finger; woodcuts by Paul Honoré

Author:
Finger, Charles Joseph 1869-1941  Search this
De Vincent Collection of American Sheet Music  Search this
Physical description:
7 p. l., 181 p. col. front., illus., col. plates. 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1927
Topic:
Ballads  Search this
Ballads, English  Search this
Folk songs  Search this
Call number:
PS593.L8F5X 1927
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_365114

Adventures of a ballad hunter / by John A. Lomax ; sketches by Ken Chamberlain

Author:
Lomax, John A (John Avery) 1867-1948  Search this
Physical description:
xi p., 1 l., 302 p. illus. 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1947
Topic:
Ballads, English--History and criticism  Search this
Call number:
ML429.L68A3X 1947
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_366181

The book of ballads, edited by Bon Gaultier [pseud.] with an introduction and notes; illustrated by Doyle, Leech, and Crowquill [pseud.]

Author:
Martin, Theodore Sir 1816-1909  Search this
Forrester, Alfred Henry 1804-1872  Search this
Doyle, Richard 1824-1883  Search this
Leech, John 1817-1864  Search this
De Vincent Collection of American Sheet Music  Search this
Physical description:
v, 256 p. front., illus. 19 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1870
Topic:
Parodies  Search this
Ballads, English  Search this
Call number:
PR4984.M3 B72 1870
PR4984.M3B72 1870
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_367142

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, by W. Chappell. The whole of the airs harmonized by G.A. Macfarren. With a new introd. by Frederick W. Sternfeld

Author:
Chappell, W (William) 1809-1888  Search this
Macfarren, G. A (George Alexander) Sir 1813-1887  Search this
Physical description:
2 v. (xxvii, 822 p.) illus., facsims., music. 22 cm
Type:
Scores
Place:
England
Date:
1965
[1965]
Topic:
Ballads, English  Search this
Folk songs, English  Search this
Dance music  Search this
Music  Search this
Call number:
M1740 .C54 1965X
M1740.C54 1965X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_31193

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