- Broadsides
in the Bodleian
Library--http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm
- Classical.net Guide to Composers
- Early Sheet Music at Duke University (1850- )
- Traditional Ballad Index
- Broadside Ballad Index
- Child Ballads
- Contemplator.com--A site with the texts and music of many Child ballad variations and other folk music.
- Concordance to the Child Ballads
- Historic American Sheet Music--Maintained by Duke University
- The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music--This collection is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site, and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1924 and is in the public domain.
- The Lomax Collection Online
- Ballads in the Bodleian
- Dance Resources in the Library of Congress--Includes historical information on dances and accompaniment for dance from the 15th through 19th centuries. Includes scanned images of Playford's Dancing Master. Enter "Playford" as a search criterion.
- Folk Legacy Recordings
- Bruce Olson's Roots of Folk: Old English, Scots, and Irish Songs and Tunes
- Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (Lyrics from Art of Bawdy Song)
- The Beggar's Opera (John Gay)
Revised 24 July
2002
Roxanne Kent-Drury
Northern Kentucky
University