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Ayres

Here are entered English lute-songs of the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

This heading is not qualified by medium of performance. For ayres for a specific medium, an additional heading is assigned for the medium of performance, e.g. Songs (High voice) with lute.

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• The XII Wonders of the World (London: Thomas Snodham for John Browne, 1612), by John Maynard (PDF at shipbrook.net)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 Voices (London: Thomas Fiste, 1598), by John Wilbye (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• A Briefe Discourse of the True (But Neglected) Use of Charact'ring the Degrees, by Thomas Ravenscroft (HTML and page images at pbm.com)
• Two Bookes of Ayres (words; from a 1903 edition of this 17th-century text), by Thomas Campion (illustrated HTML at luminarium.org)

• A Musicall Dreame, or the Fourth Booke of Ayres (London: Simon Waterson, 1609), by Robert Jones (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• Deuteromelia, by Thomas Ravenscroft (HTML and page images at pbm.com)
• Melismata: Musicall Phansies Fitting the Court, Citie and Countrey Humours, by Thomas Ravenscroft (page images at pbm.com)
• Pammelia: Musicks Miscellanie, by Thomas Ravenscroft (HTML and page images at pbm.com)

• Minstrel Songs, Old and New: A Collection of World-Wide, Famous Minstrel and Plantation Songs, Including the Most Popular of the Celebrated Foster Melodies, Arranged With Piano-Forte Accompaniment (Boston et al.: O. Ditson and Co., c1882), contrib. by Stephen Collins Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minstrel Songs, Old and New: A Collection of World-Wide, Famous Minstrel and Plantation Songs, Including the Most Popular of the Celebrated Foster Melodies, Arranged With Piano-Forte Accompaniment (Boston et al.: O. Ditson and Co., c1910), contrib. by Stephen Collins Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Garland of New Songs: Allen A-Dale; Paddy Carey; Ma Chere Amie; William Tell; Oh the Moment Was Sad; The Cottage on the Moor (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: Bess the Gawkie; Blythe Was She; Yorkshireman in London; Pray Goody (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: God Save the King; Rule, Britannia; The Jubilee; General Wolfe; The Trumpet Sounds a Victory (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: O How I Love Somebody; The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow; Of A' the Airts the Win' Can Blaw; The Banks of the Dee (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: Sweet Willy o' the Green; The Yorkshire Concert; The Yorkshire Irishman; The Woodland Maid (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Battle of the Nile; Tom Starboard' The Sailor's Adieu; Tom Bowling; True Courage; The Sea Boy (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Bay of Biscay; O, All's Well; Poor Joe the Marine; The Mid Watch; The Sea-Boy; The Sailor's Adieu (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Bonny Scotch Lad and His Bonnet So Blue; The Blackbird; My Sailor Dear Shall Guard my Pillow; Bundle of Truths (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Death of Nelson; Lochaber; The Yellow-Hair'd Laddie; Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad; The Yorkshire Concert (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Fairest of The Fair; Here's a Health, &c.; The Sea-Boy; Giles Scroggins' Ghost; My Only Jo' an' Dearie O; The Beautiful Maid; The Royal Love Letter (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Storm, by Mrs. Robinson; A Free Mason's Song; My Eye and Betty Martia (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: Tweed Side; My Nanie, O; Highland Laddie; Up in the Morning Early; Flowers of the Forest (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Daisies in the Grass: A Collection of Songs and Poems (London: R. Hardwicke, 1865), by G. Linnaeus Banks and Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Twenty Songs (sheet music; Manchester and London: John Heywood, 1899), by Edwin Waugh and Christopher E. Rowley (PDF files and HTML in the UK)

• A Bundle of Ballads, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Robin Hood: A Collection of All The Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant, Relative to That Celebrated English Outlaw; To Which are Prefixed Historical Anecdotes of His Life (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and Boys, 1820), by Joseph Ritson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Irish Melodies: The Original Airs Restored and Arranged for the Voice with Pianoforte Accompaniment (London and New York: Boosey and Co., c1895), by Thomas Moore, ed. by Charles Villiers Stanford (page images of music scores at libraryireland.com)
• Sweet Olde Irish Songs: A Selection of Famous Celtic Airs and Ballads (New York: Log Cabin Press, 1914), ed. by Robert J. Cole and Harry C. Phibbs (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Songs of Ireland (Dublin: J. Duffy and Sons, c1845), ed. by Michael Joseph Barry
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Shakspere's Songs and Sonnets (New York: Cassell, Peter, and Galpin, n.d.), by William Shakespeare, illust. by John Gilbert
  • muiltiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Songs and Sonnets (New York and Boston: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1898), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Francis Turner Palgrave
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), by John Stephen Farmer (Gutenberg text)
• Poetical Recreations Consisting of Original Poems, Songs, Odes, &c; With Several New Translations, In Two Parts: Part I, Occasionally Written By Mrs. Jane Barker; Part II, By Several Gentlemen of the Universities, and Others (London: Printed for B. Crayle, 1688), contrib. by Jane Barker (HTML at Michigan)
• The Lyceum Manual: A Compendium of Physical, Moral, and Spiritual Exercises for Use in Progressive Lyceums Connected With British Spiritualists' Societies and Kindred Bodies (10th (children's) edition; 1914), ed. by Emma Hardinge Britten, Alfred Kitson, and H. A. Kersey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Chanteys and Ballads: Sea-Chanteys, Tramp-Ballads and Other Ballads and Poems (New York: Brentano's, c1920), by Harry Kemp (page images at HathiTrust)

• Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp (first edition; New York: Macmillan, 1919), ed. by John A. Lomax (PDF at unl.edu)

• The American Songbag (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1927), ed. by Carl Sandburg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Musical Miscellany: A Collection of the Newest and Most Approved Songs, Set to Music (Northampton, MA: Printed by A. Wright for D. Wright and Co., 1798) (multiple formats at archive.org)