History of Music & Recording Project
From Medieval to Groups & Musicians Issuing on Vinyl by 1970
Based on research at
References for Items of Frequent Mention
Ballad, Broadside, Broadside Ballad & Folk Music Indexes
Broadsides were early posters which advertised events, made proclamations or public commentary.
A broadside could also be a printed ballad (narrative song), poem, et al, that might sell for a penny.
Broadsides preceded printing but generally refer to either black letter or white letter typesets.
Black letter refers to type from Gutenberg (c 1440) to c 1700. White letter refers to roman type circa 1700 onward.
Ballad Indexes:
Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England (Roger Bell 2014 from the 1857 John W. Parker and Son edition by David Pricen)
Ancient Scottish Ballads (George R. Kinloch 1827)
The Ballad Book (Robert B. Waltz 2002 from George R. Kinloch 1827)
Best of Legends (Paula Kate Marmor)
Black Letter Ballads:
English Broadside Ballad Archive
The Bodleian Library:
A Book of Old English Ballads (Macmillan Company 1896)
Child Ballads (The English and Scottish Popular Ballads / Francis James Child / Houghton, Mifflin 1882-98):
Lesley Nelson (lyrics)
Wikipedia (synopses of titles)
The Flying Cloud (Michael Cassius Dean 1922)
Laws Ballads (American Balladry from British Broadsides / George Malcolm Laws / American Folklore Society 1957):
The Oxford Book of Ballads (Ed. by Arthur Quiller-Couch 1910)
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry / Thomas Percy / 1765:
Internet Archive (Dent 1906 / Denton 1910)
Sixteenth Century Ballads (Greg Lindahl)
Street Ballads of Victorian England (c 1850-70)
Traditional Ballad Index (California State University Fresno):
Software Instructions (Robert B. Waltz)
Broadsides:
American Broadsides (c 1835-89)
The Bute Broadsides (John Patrick Crichton-Stuart Bute / Great Britain):
FlipHTML5 (author index)
Vanderbilt University (compilation by Hugh Amory / Harvard University / 1981)
Confederate Broadsides (c American Civil War 1861-65)
English Crime and Execution Broadsides (18th to 19th centuries)
Halliwell-Phillipps Collection (James Orchard Halliwell 1852)
Middle Tennessee State University Center for Popular Music Collection:
Center for Popular Music Collection Search Various
National Library of Scotland Collection:
National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland (genres)
Wikipedia (printing)
Broadside Ballads:
Ancient Ballads & Broadsides Published in England in the Sixteenth Century (Library of Henry Huth / Wittingham & Wilkins 1867)
Colonial America (Carlton Sprague Smith)
English Broadside Ballad Archive Guide
Jockey and Jenny: English Broadside Ballads and the Invention of Scottishness (Adam Fox / University of Edinburgh 2016):
Semantic Scholar University of Edinburgh
Patricia Fumerton:
The Recollection of Seventeenth-Century Broadside Ballads (University of California Santa Barbara 2008)
Why the Broadside Ballad? (English Broadside Ballad Archive [EBBA] University of California Santa Barbara)
Irish Broadside Ballads (1790-1890 / University of Notre Dame)
The Lubrano Collection (19th century England / Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Lesley Nelson (Contemplator)
William Bruce Olson Broadside Ballad Index (17th century):
California State University Fresno (alt) (alt)
The Pepys Collection (c 1685-1705)
Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project: Boston Ballads (1813) Genres
Folk Music Indexes:
Contemplator Folk Music / Lesley Nelson:
The Essen Folksong Collection (global / Helmut Schaffrath)
The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection (Scotland c 1902-14 / Gavin Greig / James Bruce Duncan 1981-2002):
National Library of Australia Performances Wikipedia
The Max Hunter Collection (Ozark Mountains / recorded 1956-76)
The Oxford Book of Nursery Rhymes (Iona & Peter Opie 1951)
Steve Roud Broadside & Folk Song Indexes:
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (search)
Wikipedia (by number)
Classical Main Menu Modern Recording
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