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• Lyric poetry -- History and criticism
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• Songs -- History and criticism -- Medieval, 400-1500
• Ballads -- History and criticism
• Children's songs -- History and criticism
• Folk songs -- History and criticism
• Hunting songs -- History and criticism
• National songs -- History and criticism
• Political ballads and songs -- History and criticism
• Sacred songs -- History and criticism
• Songs, Belgian -- History and criticism
• Songs, Dutch -- History and criticism
• Songs, English -- History and criticism
• Songs, Finnish -- History and criticism
• Songs, French -- History and criticism
• Songs, German -- History and criticism
• Songs, Greek -- History and criticism
• Songs, Hawaiian -- History and criticism
• Songs, Irish -- History and criticism
• Songs, Italian -- History and criticism
• Songs, Japanese -- History and criticism
• Songs, Jewish (Hebrew) -- History and criticism
• Songs, Lao -- History and criticism
• Songs, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism
• Songs, Portuguese -- History and criticism
• Songs, Provençal -- History and criticism
• Songs, Romanian -- History and criticism
• Songs, Russian -- History and criticism
• Songs, Scots -- History and criticism
• Songs, Scottish -- History and criticism
• Songs, Ukrainian -- History and criticism
• Songs, Vietnamese -- History and criticism
• Songs -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism
• Songs -- Africa -- History and criticism
• Songs -- Creole -- History and criticism
• Songs -- France -- History and criticism
• Songs -- Germany -- History and criticism
• Songs -- Indonesia -- Java -- History and criticism
• Songs -- Scandinavia -- History and criticism
• Songs -- Scotland -- Buchan -- History and criticism
• Songs -- United States -- History and criticism

• The hymn as literature (Century Co., 1924), by Jeremiah Bascom Reeves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le manuscrit musical M. 222 C. 22 de la Bibliothèque de Strasbourg (XVe siècle) brulé en 1870, et reconstitué d'après une copie partielle d'Edmond de Coussemaker. (Imprimerie E. Secelle, 1924), by Charles Van den Borren, Charles Edmond Henri de Coussemaker, and Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs and song writers (C. Scribner, 1911), by Henry T. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus liederbüchern der humanistenzeit : eine bibliographische und notentypographische studie, vorgelegt (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1910), by Eduard Bernoulli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay on modern unaccompanied song (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1923), by Herbert Bedford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Makers of song (Dodd, Mead, 1904), by Anna Alice Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schubert et le lied. (Perrin et cie, 1907), by Maurice Gallet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A select collection of English songs, with their original airs: and a historical essay on the origin and progress of national song (Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1813), by Joseph Ritson and Thomas Park (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peeps at historical songs (A. & C. Black, ltd., 1927), by Enid Leale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georg Philipp Telemanns Singe-, Spiel- und Generalbassuebungen; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des begleiteten Kunstliedes ... (Buchdr. G. Lais, 1922), by Max Wilhelm Frey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Song histories (W. Hodge, 1900), by Robert Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our familiar songs and those who made them. Three hundred standard songs of the English speaking race (Henry Holt, c1889., 1889), by Helen Kendrick Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Makers of song. (Hutchinson, 1904), by Anna Alice Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Song histories (W. Hodge, 1900), by Robert Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Wagner and the music of the future. (Chapman and Hall, 1874), by Francis Hueffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A select collection of English songs. (Printed for J. Johnson, 1783), by Joseph Ritson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hugo Wolf-Fest in Stuttgart : 4. bis 8. Oktober 1906 (C. Grüninger, 1906), by Karl Grunsky and Hugo Wolf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories of famous songs (J.C. Nimmo ;, 1898), by S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of famous songs. (Lippincott, 1901), by S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald, Edward Stratton Holloway, and J.B. Lippincott Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some famous songs. An art-historical sketch. (E. Schuberth & co.;, 1878), by Fanny Raymond Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das musikalische lied in geschichtlicher entwickelung. (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1863), by Karl Ernst Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du chant, et particulièrement de la romance (A. Bertrand, 1813), by Paul Charles François Adrien Henri Dieudonné Thiébault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das musikalische Lied in geschichtlicher Entwickelung. (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1863), by K. E. Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte, Geist und Ausübung des Gesanges von Gregor dem Grossen bis auf unsere Zeit (B. G. Teubner, 1845., 1845), by Heinrich Ferdinand Steinmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The song : its birth, evolution, and functions : with numerous selections from old English lyrics (A. C. McClurg & Co., 1915), by George P. Upton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of famous songs (J. B. Lippincott company, 1901), by S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• A select collection of English songs, with their original airs: and a historical essay on the origin and progress of national song (Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, 1813), by Joseph Ritson and Thomas Park (page images at HathiTrust)
• La céramique musicale et instrumentale (A. Lévy, 1889), by Oscar Edmond Ris-Paquot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of famous songs. (J. B. Lippincott Co., 1906), by S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das neue Lied; zur Ästhetik der modernen musikalischen Lyrik. (I.C.C. Brun, 1901), by Wilhelm Mauke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing the popular song (The Home Correspondence School, 1916), by E. M. Wickes, Harry Von Tilzer, and J. Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les étapes de la chanson : histoire pittoresque de la chanson à travers les ages. (H. Lachize, 1898), by Henri Papin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nogle bemærkninger om historisk sandhed i visedigtning (B. Lunos bogtrykkeri, 1907), by Johannes C. H. R. Steenstrup (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Musik als Hilfswissenschaft der Philologie in bezug auf das mittelalterliche Lied ([s.n.], 1902), by E. F. Kossmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Flowering Thorn: International Ballad Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), ed. by Thomas A. McKean (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Poetic Origins and the Ballad (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Louise Pound (PDF at unl.edu)
• The ballad of tradition. (Oxford University Press, 1957), by Gordon Hall Gerould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetic origins and the ballad. (Russell & Russell, 1962), by Louise Pound (page images at HathiTrust)
• Makers of song (Dodd, Mead, 1904), by Anna Alice Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballad and epic; a study in the development of the narrative art (Ginn & company, 1907), by Walter Morris Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flowering thorn : international ballad studies (Utah State University Press, 2003), by Thomas A. McKean (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the history of the ballads, 1100-1500 (Henry Frowde, 1910), by W. P. Ker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Två folkminnesundersökningar : brud icke mö och Liten Åsa Gåsapiga samt Kung Ingewalls dotter (DgF 274, Aarnes 871 och 535) (Elanders Boktryckeri, 1925), by Waldemar Liungman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems and essays: including The fallen chief, The minstrel's curse, Kenilworth ... (A. Williams and company, 1883), by Gideon Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Makers of song. (Hutchinson, 1904), by Anna Alice Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei Liedstudien. I. Die Englisch-Schottische Raben-Ballade. II. Das Lammerstraten-Lied. (A. Guthe, 1914), by Hermann Tardel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das musikalische lied in geschichtlicher entwickelung. (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1863), by Karl Ernst Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das musikalische Lied in geschichtlicher Entwickelung. (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1863), by K. E. Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• The popular ballad (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1907), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ballads and ballad literature (s.n., 1892), by H. B. Witton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spuernatural element in the English and Scotch ballads (1915), by Virginia Bronsted Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballad theory and technique. (s.n.], 1905), by Archer Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Investigations in folksong. (s.n.], 1915), by Archer Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the history of the ballads, 1100-1500 (British Academy, 1912), by W. P. Ker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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