Folk songs, English
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Folk songs, English -- England
- Folk songs, English -- Great Britain
- Folk songs, English -- Instrumental settings
- Folk songs, English -- Ireland
- Folk songs, English -- Jamaica
- Folk songs, English -- Periodicals
- Folk songs, English -- Texts
- Folk songs, English -- United States
- Folk songs, English -- West (U.S.)
- English ballads and songs
- English folk songs
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Songs and Ballads of the West: A Collection Made From the Mouths of the People (with piano arrangements; London: Methuen and Co., ca. 1891), by S. Baring-Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard (multiple formats at archive.org)- Songs of the West: Folk Songs of Devon and Cornall, Collected From the Mouths of the People (5th edition, with musical scores included; London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by S. Baring-Gould, H. Fleetwood Sheppard, and F. W. Bussell, ed. by Cecil J. Sharp (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Collection of Ballads, ed. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- Real Sailor-Songs (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891), ed. by John Ashton
- Supplement of Reserved Songs From Merry Drollery, 1661 (ca. 1876), ed. by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (HTML and PDF at horntip.com)
- The Rakish Rhymer: or Fancy Man's Own Songster and Reciter ("Lutetia" small limited edition; 1917) (HTML and PDF page images at horntip.com)
- The Songs of Charles Dibdin, Chronologically Arranged, With Notes, Historical, Biographical, and Critical; and The Music of the Best and Most Popular of the Melodies, with New Piano-Forte Accompaniments; To Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author (2 volumes; London: How and Parsons, 1842), by Charles Dibdin, contrib. by George Hogarth
- The Songs of Charles Dibdin, Chronologically Arranged, With Notes, Historical, Biographical, and Critical; and The Music of the Best and Most Popular of the Melodies, with New Piano-Forte Accompaniments; To Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author (2 volumes; London: G. H. Davidson, 1848), by Charles Dibdin, contrib. by George Hogarth
- Dialect Songs of the North (Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland) (sheet music; London: J. Curwen and Sons, 1910), ed. by John Graham, contrib. by Percy E. Fletcher (HTML in the UK)
- Dialect Songs of the North (Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland) (sheet music; London: J. Curwen and Sons, 1910), ed. by John Graham, contrib. by Percy E. Fletcher (HTML in the UK)
- Dialect Songs of the North (Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland) (sheet music; London: J. Curwen and Sons, 1910), ed. by John Graham, contrib. by Percy E. Fletcher (HTML in the UK)
- Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, ed. by Robert Bell (Gutenberg text)
- Dialect Songs of the North (Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland) (sheet music; London: J. Curwen and Sons, 1910), ed. by John Graham, contrib. by Percy E. Fletcher (HTML in the UK)
- Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, Transcribed for the Piano (Boston: O. Ditson Co.; et al., c1905), ed. by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, contrib. by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and Dancing Tunes (Publications of the Folk-Lore Society #55; London: D. Nutt, 1907), ed. by Walter Jekyll, contrib. by Alice Werner, Charles Samuel Myers, and Lucy Etheldred Broadwood
- Journal of the Folk-Song Society (partial serial archives)
- Merry Drollery Compleat: Being Jovial Poems, Merry Songs, etc. (based on the 1691 final edition, omitting some songs from the 1661 edition; Boston, Lincolnshire: R. Roberts, 1875), ed. by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and Other Humorous Verses and Doggerel Now for the First Time Brought Together in Book Form (privately printed, 1927), ed. by Arthur Mackay (HTML at horntip.com)
- Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (New York: Sturgis and Walton, 1911), ed. by John A. Lomax (PDF at unl.edu)
- Hampton Series: Negro Folk-Songs (4 volumes; New York and Boston: G. Schirmer, c1918-1919), ed. by Natalie Curtis Burlin
- The American Songbag (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1927), ed. by Carl Sandburg (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hampton and its Students, by M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow (page images at MOA)
- The Book of American Negro Spirituals (New York: Viking Press, 1925), ed. by James Weldon Johnson, contrib. by J. Rosamond Johnson and Lawrence Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hampton and its Students, by M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow (page images at MOA)
- Slave Songs of the United States (reprint; New York: P. Smith, 1951), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
- Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
- Slave Songs of the United States (reprint; New York: P. Smith, 1951), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hampton Series: Negro Folk-Songs (4 volumes; New York and Boston: G. Schirmer, c1918-1919), ed. by Natalie Curtis Burlin
- Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Folk songs -- Australia- The Old Bush Songs, ed. by A. B. Paterson
- Sounding the Depths: Tradition and the Voices of History (2011), by Victor Grauer (HTML with commentary at blogspot.com)
- Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society (full serial archives)
- Man, Bird, and Beast (Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society v8; Austin: Texas Folk-Lore Society, c1930), ed. by J. Frank Dobie (page images at HathiTrust)
- On the Track of "The Arkansas Traveler" (extract from the Century magazine, 1896), by Henry C. Mercer
- Nightingale of France (Rossinyol de França): Catalan Folksong for Mixed Voices (8-part vocal score, in English and Catalan, with piano rehearsal accompaniment; Boston: O. Ditson and Co.; et al., c1922), by Kurt Schindler, trans. by Mary Ellis Peltz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Gerald Roche, trans. by Limusishiden (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Kling-Klang Gloria: Deutsche Volks- und Kinderlieder (in German; Vienna: F. Tempsky; Leipzig: G. Freytag, 1907), ed. by Wladimir Labler, illust. by Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban
- Greek Folk-Songs From the Ottoman Provinces of Northern Hellas (with essays on paganism and folklore; second edition; London: Ward and Downey, 1888), ed. by John S. Stuart-Glennie, trans. by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
- Greek Folk-Songs From the Turkish Provinces of Greece (with an essay on the survival of paganism; London: E. Stock, 1885), ed. by John S. Stuart-Glennie, trans. by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
- Songs of Old Ireland: A Collection of Fifty Irish Melodies (1882), by Alfred Perceval Graves and Charles Villiers Stanford (sheet music images at libraryireland.com)
- Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Gerald Roche, trans. by Limusishiden (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Chants Populaires des Afghans (introduction and translations in French, and lyrics in Pushto; Paris; Imp. Nationale, 1888-1890), ed. by James Darmesteter
- The Bard of the Dimbovitza: Roumanian Folk-Songs Collected From the Peasants (London: J. R. Osgood, 1897), by Elena Văcărescu, trans. by Carmen Sylva and Alma Strettell (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- The Bard of the Dimbovitza: Roumanian Folk-Songs Collected From the Peasants (new and enlarged edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1902), by Elena Văcărescu, trans. by Carmen Sylva and Alma Strettell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lieder aus dem Dimbovitzathal (in German; Bonn: E. Strauss, 1889), by Elena Văcărescu, trans. by Carmen Sylva
- Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; With a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition (second edition, 3 volumes; Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ballantyne for Longman and Rees, 1803), ed. by Walter Scott
- A Collection of Ballads, ed. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- Newe Hupia: Shoshoni Poetry Songs (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Beverly Crum, Earl Crum, and Jon P. Dayley
- Songs of Ukraina, With Ruthenian Poems (Dent and Dutton edition, 1916), by Florence Randal Livesay (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Yiddish Folk Songs: 50 Songs for Voice and Piano (New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1924), ed. by Sarah Pitkowsky Schack, contrib. by Ethel Silberman Cohen
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