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Folk dance music

For works consisting of Folk dance music of an individual ethnic group, an additional subject entry is made under the heading [ethnic group--place -- Music.]

Here are entered collections of miscellaneous folk dance music. Music for individual dances is entered under dance form, e.g. Square dance music.

If the collection also contains dance instruction, two headings are used, e.g. 1. Folk dancing. 2. Folk dance music.

If the collection is for a medium other than piano, an additional heading is used for the medium, e.g. 1. Folk dance music. 2. Orchestral music, Arranged.

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• Dance music
• Folk music
• Music

• Folk dance music -- England

• National dances

• Singing Games and Dances (New York: Association Press, c1957), ed. by David S. McIntosh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk Dances of Different Nations (3 volumes in 1; New York: L. H. Chalif, c1926), ed. by Louis H. Chalif (page images at HathiTrust)

• Northumbrian Minstrelsy: A Collection of the Ballads, Melodies, and Small-Pipe Tunes of Northumbria (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Society of Antiquaries, 1882), ed. by J. Collingwood Bruce and John Stokoe
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • 1965 reprint: multiple formats at archive.org

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

• The Princess, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• Brookes on Modern Dancing, by Laurence De Garmo Brookes (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Collection of Ball-Dances Perform'd at Court, by John Weaver (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dick's Quadrille Call-Book, and Ball-Room Prompter (HTML and page images at LOC)
• An Essay for the Further Improvement of Dancing, by E. Pemberton (page images and partial HTML at LOC)
• J.W. Pepper's Universal Dancing Master, Prompter's Call Book and Violinist's Guide, by Lucien O. Carpenter (page images at LOC)
• Le Gratie d'Amore (in Italian; facsimile images from 1602 and 1604 editions), by Cesare Negri (page images with commentary at pbm.com)
• The Code of Terpsichore, by Carlo Blasis (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Friendship, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Godolphin, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Northumberland, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Pastorall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Ann, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Portuguez, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• Varietie of Lute-Lessons (London: Thomas Adams, 1610), by Robert Dowland (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• The Dancing Master (10th edition, 1698), ed. by John Playford (page images at LOC)
• Grammar of the Art of Dancing, by Friedrich Albert Zorn, ed. by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe (HTML and page images at LOC)

• For the Furthur Improvement of Dancing, by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Essex (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Orchesography: or, The Art of Dancing (first edition), by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Weaver
  • page images at pbm.com
  • Gutenberg illustrated HTML
• Orchesography: or, The Art of Dancing (second edition, 1715), by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Weaver (HTML and page images at LOC)

• The Art of Dancing, Historically Illustrated, by Edward Ferrero (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Le Couvent sur l'Eau (Il Convento Veneziano): Comédie Chorégraphique, sur un Argument de J.L. Vaudoyer, par Alfredo Casella: Fragments Symphoniques pour Orchestre (musical score, with notes in French and Italian; Milan et al.: G. Ricordi, c1919), by Alfredo Casella (page images at HathiTrust; page order reversed; US access only)

• The Rite of Spring: Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts (orchestral score; London et al.: Boosey and Hawkes, c1921), by Igor Stravinsky and Nicholas Roerich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Dancing Master (10th edition, 1698), ed. by John Playford (page images at LOC)

• The Royall Galliarde, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)

• Elements of Music and of Fingering the Harpsichord; To Which is Added a Collection of Airs and Lessons for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte (Glasgow: Pub. for the author, ca. 1802), by Anne Gunn, contrib. by Joseph Haydn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Second Love Schottisch (sheet music for piano; Washington: J. F. Ellis, c1870), by J. A. Rosenberger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Leaflets of the Ball Room (HTML and page images at LOC)

• The Rigadoon Royal, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)

• Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth Through Her Songs and Stories (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Patricia Sawin (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Sounds of the South: A Report and Selected Papers from a Conference on the Collecting and Collections of Southern Traditional Music, Held in Chapel Hill, April 6-8, 1989, to Celebrate the Opening of the Southern Folklife Collection with the John Edwards Memorial Collection in the Manuscripts Department of the Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC: Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, 1991), ed. by Daniel W. Patterson, contrib. by Michael T. Casey, George M. Holt, Bess Lomax Hawes, Bill C. Malone, Paul Oliver, Thomas Carter, Ray Funk, Norm Cohen, Tim West, Barry Jean Ancelet, Allen Tullos, David E. Whisnant, and Archie Green (page images at HathiTrust)

• Des Bohémiens et de Leur Musique en Hongrie (new edition, in French; Leipzig: Breitkopf et Haertel, 1881), by Franz Liszt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Irish Folk Music: A Fascinating Hobby, With Some Account of Allied Subjects, Including O'Farrell's Treatise on the Irish or Union Pipes, and Touhey's Hints to Amateur Pipers (Chicago: Regan Printing House, 1910), by Francis O'Neill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fiabe e Canzoni Popolari del Contado di Maglie in Terra d'Otranto ("fascicolo primo" only volume known to exist; in Italian; Maglie: Tip. del Collegio Capece, 1881), by Pietro Pellizzari (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fiabe e Canzoni Popolari del Contado di Maglie in Terra d'Otranto ("fascicolo primo" only volume known to exist; in Italian; Maglie: Tip. del Collegio Capece, 1881), by Pietro Pellizzari (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sui Canti Popolari di Alimena: Lettera a Giuseppe Pitrè (in Italian; Palermo: Tipografia Priulla, 1871), by Michele Messina-Faulisi
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • page images at Google; US access only

• Folklife Resources in the Library of Congress (revised edition, 1994), by Timothy Charles Lloyd and Hillary Glatt (PDF at ed.gov)

• The Folklore and Folk Music Archivist (1958-1968) (partial serial archives)

• 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
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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 and its Students, by M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow (page images at MOA)
• 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
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Old Bush Songs, ed. by A. B. Paterson
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at University of Sydney

• 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 (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.