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Folksong & music hall / Edward Lee.

Fakesong : the manufacture of British 'folksong', 1700 to the present day / (by) David Harker.

Everyman's book of British ballads / edited by Roy Palmer.

Music hall : the business of pleasure / edited by Peter Bailey.

The traditional and national music of Scotland / by Francis Collinson.

Tin Pan Alley / John Shepherd.

Music for pleasure : essays in the sociology of pop / Simon Frith.

The real personages of Mother Goose / by Katherine Elwes Thomas.

Letters from Joseph Ritson...to Mr. George Paton. To which is added, a critique by John Pinkerton... upon Ritson's Scotish [sic] songs / [Edited by James Maidment].

The Anglo-Scottish ballad and its imaginary contexts / David Atkinson.

Ancient Scotish melodies, from a manuscript of the reign of King James VI. : With an introductory enquiry illustrative of the history of the music of Scotland / by William Dauney, Esq. F.S.A. Scot.

Shakespeare and music, with illustrations from the music of the 16th and 17th centuries / by Edward W. Naylor ...

Musa pedestris : Three centuries of canting songs and slang rhymes (1536-1896) / collected and annotated by John S. Farmer.

The English madrigal / by Edmund H. Fellowes ...

The Elizabethan playhouse and other studies / by W.J. Lawrence. [Second Series].

Through Romany songland / by Laura Alexandrine Smith.

Essays on subjects connected with the literature, popular superstitions, and history of England in the Middle Ages / by Thomas Wright....

Make we merry more and less : an anthology of medieval English popular literature / selected and introduced by Douglas Gray ; edited by Jane Bliss.

Ballad criticism in Scandinavia and Great Britain during the eighteenth century / by Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt.

Popular music of the olden time : a collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes, illustrative of the national music of England / with short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; also a short account of the minstrels ; byy W. Chappell, F.S.A. ; the whole of the airs harmonized by G. A. Macfarren.

Bibliotheca madrigaliana : a bibliographical account of the musical and poetical works published in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, under the titles of madrigals, ballets, ayres, canzonets, etc. etc. / by Edward F. Rimbault....

Broadside black-letter ballads, printed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; chiefly in the possession of J. Payne Collier / illustrated by ... woodcuts. [Edited by J.P. Collier.]