A TRADITIONAL MUSIC LIBRARY A TRADITIONAL MUSIC LIBRARYAmerican Ballads & Folk Songs Lomax's famous book, hundreds of song lyrics, sheet music, notes and commentary.
Our Singing Country, Volume 2 of above by Lomax, song lyrics, sheet music, notes and commentary.
American Ballads & Songs A collection of traditional American songs from Louise Pound, lyrics & sheet music.
The Riverside Song Book - A Collection Of 170+ Classic American Songs With Lyrics And Sheet Music, circa 1893
On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs - negro folk songs with lyrics, sheet music & commentaries.
Negro Folk Rhymes A detailed study of Negro folk music & its origins by Thomas W. Tally with sheet music & lyrics.
NEW Afro-American Folksongs, A Study In Racial And National Music, Some Sheet Music & Lyrics, Henry Edward Krehbiel, 1913
Folk Songs Of the American Negro An investigation into traditional American negro folk songs By John Wesley Work.
NEW Negro Melodies Plantation Pieces, Camp Meeting Songs. A collection of lyrics for 180+ songs, William C Blades, 1921
Traditional Bluegrass music with lyrics, midis & sheet-music - 250+ traditional bluegrass favourite songs & tunes.
These tunes and songs are mostly American folk or roots pieces plus some sacred and inspirational songs. They include many numbers which are the most popular and often heard in bluegrass jam sessions and performances. The bluegrass style is characterized by fast tempo with an emphasis on the five string banjo and harmony singing. Bill Munroe and Flatt and Scruggs are often credited with originating this style.
Bluegrass lyrics collection of around 1000 songs
Bluegrass Ballads, a book of lyrics for songs relating to the Kentucky of 100 years ago.
Cowboy songbook - 70+ Cowboy, Western and Pioneer songs with lyrics midis & sheet music.
Songs of the Cattle Trail & Cow Camp by Lomax, collection of cowboy/western related songs, lyrics & sheet music.
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by Lomax, lyrics sheet music, notes and commentary on many Cowboy songs.
Frontier Ballads - a collection of western & frontier songs with lyrics & Illustrations.
Cowboy Lyrics a nostalgic look at the old west through traditional song & lyrics plus the authors reminiscences.
Songs Of The Cowboys 100+ Traditional Western & Cowboy Song lyrics.
Christy's Plantation Melodies - 176+ Songs Selected by E.P. Christy, Originator of Ethiopian Minstrelsy
The Arkansas Traveller's Songster, The celebrated Story of the Arkansas Traveller, With Music for Violin or Piano Also Includes An Extensive and Choice Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs, circa 1864
Christy's Panorama Songster A Collection of Minstrel, Comic and Sentimental Song Lyrics as sung by The Christy, Campbell, Pierce's Minstrels and Sable Brothers, circa 1863
Hooley's Opera House Songster - Sentimental, Comic, And Ethiopian Songs. As Sung By D. D. Emmet, G. A. Parkerson, W. S. Budworth, Archy Hughes, G. W. H. Griffin, S. S. Purdy, J. A. Herman, Lew Brimmer, J. T. Boyce And Other Popular Vocalists Belonging To The Renowned Band Of Hooley's Minstrels. Published By Dick & Fitzgerald New York, Circa 1863
Traditional American Old-time (Oldtimey) tune-book and songbook - 300+ tunes & songs with lyrics, sheet music & midis,
American "old-time" or "oldtimey" is essentially American traditional folk and roots music, although very many of the pieces trace back to European origins. Old-time and traditional bluegrass music have both contributed to what is now thought of as traditional county music and have many songs and tunes in common, but the playing styles are very different. With old-time, the emphasis is much more on fiddle tunes and dance music, and often a deliberate effort is made to perform the music in the same way as it might have been done in the rural settings of 100 years ago.
Old-Time Song lyrics - lyrics of 200+ songs from old-time artists such as Charlie Poole, Ernest Stoneman, Brad Leftwich etc.
Carter Family Song book - A fairly complete Cater family repertoire of 200+ song lyrics, many with chords.
The Play-party In Indiana - Traditional songs and games with descriptive introduction, correlating notes includes sheet music & lyrics circa 1916
Bugle Signals, Calls & Marches, Adopted by the War Department, Sheet Music for more than 200 pieces 1917
Songs & Ballads of the American Revolution - 90+ Songs With Notes & Illustrations, By Frank Moore.
Southern War Songs(Confederate) Camp-Fire, Patriotic & Sentimental 200+ Song Lyrics (Illustrated)
Songs Of The Soldiers(Union), 150+ Songs With Notes & Illustrations.
Songs Of The Soldiers And Sailors U.S. - 1917 songbook of around 60 song lyrics by the US military for its troops.
NEW HOPI SONGS - Native American Songs With Sheet Music, Notation & Commentary
NEW Indian Games, Dances & Native Songs - Native American Ceremonials, Sports, and Songs with Sheet Music, Lyrics & Commentary
NEW North America Indian Story & Song With Sheet Music Lyrics & Commentary, By ALICE C. FLETCHER circa 1900
NEW Song-book Of The Commandery Of The State Of Pennsylvania A collection of lyrics for 60 plus songs of a patriotic or particular interest.
University Of Illinois Songbook, A collection of 70+ related songs with with sheet music & lyrics 1908
Folk Songs from the Southern Highlands by Mellinger Edward Henry,lyrics & sheet music.
Kentucky Mountain Songs Traditional Folk Songs from that area, Lyrics & Sheet Music.
Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan - 200+ traditional & folk songs, commentary; lyrics & sheet music.
Ballads and Songs of Indiana 100 Songs Collected & Edited by Paul G. Brewster with commentaries Lyrics & Sheet music.
Songs And Ballads Of The Maine Lumberjacks includes Lyrics, Histories & Commentaries
NEW Rocky Mountain Song Book A Collection of Early Political Songs circa 1856
English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians - The famous collection by Cecil J. Sharp
NEW
The second book of English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians by Cecil J. Sharp
Stephen Foster songs - Songbook with 70+ popular songs by Stephen Foster, includes most of the minstrel favourites with lyrics, sheet music & midis.
The Melodies Of Stephen C. Foster, A Collection 150+ of his works with lyrics and original sheet music(piano).
Stephen Foster biography complete online book by Harold Vincent Milligan.
Stephen Foster - youth's golden gleam - His Life And Background In Cincinnati 1846 - 1850 by By Raymond Walter.
Traditional Christmas, carols & hymns songbook - 80+ popular Christmas carols and songs with lyrics, sheet music & midis.
Traditional Christian Music collection Sacred songs, Gospel, Hymns & Inspirational songs, sheet music & lyrics from Ira D Sankey's book "Sacred Songs and Solos"
Songs from the St Lawrence - The Northern Harp collection of inspirational songs part 1, lyrics
Forest Melodies.The Northern Harp collection of inspirational songs part 2, lyrics
Church Hymns & Tunes 600+ traditional pieces of church music with sheet music & lyrics.
The Book Of Praise From The Best English Hymn Writers - 450 Christian Songs & Hymns Selected By Roundell Palmer
Faber's Hymns - 88 Most Popular & Representative Christian Hymns From Frederick William Faber
Temperance Hymn Book And Minstrels A Collection Of 105 Christian Hymns, Songs & Odes 1841
Christmas Carols, Ancient And Modern - 15th to 19th century with extensive historical information.
Traditional Irish folk music songbook and tune-book - 200+ favourite Irish, tunes. This 3 part collection of songs and tunes, includes many of the best known and liked folk songs and tunes with midis, lyrics & sheet music.
Irish Songs (or songs with Irish associations) with chords marked for guitar etc.
The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs & Lyrics Volume 1 lyrics for around 500 songs
The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs & Lyrics Volume 2 (each has about 500 songs).
Hyland's Hibernian Songster described as 500 songs dear to the Irish heart - lyrics & some sheet music.
Moore's Irish Melodies. Traditional Irish Song & Ballad Lyrics by Ireland's Bard Thomas Moore, lyrics.
Traditional Scottish music songbook and tune-book - 140+ favourite Scottish tunes & songs with midis, lyrics & sheet music.
As with the Irish tune-book an effort has been made to include all the best know and favourite pieces.
Robert Burn's songs, collection of 360+ items from Scotland's Bard with lyrics & sheet music.
Traditional Children's Songs & Nursery Rhymes a collection of 300+ items - lyrics.
Mother Goose's Traditional Nursery Rhymes (300+ pages) with lyrics & some sheet music.
Traditional English Nursery Songs - a very nicely illustrated & illuminated collection of lyrics, circa 1846
Merry Songs & Games For The Kindergarten 90 Pieces with lyrics & sheet music By Clara Beeson Hubbard
One hundred New Kindergarten Songs with lyrics & sheet music by Rena I. & Henrietta A. Halsey
Song Stories For The Kindergarten, 90 pieces with lyrics & sheet music, illustrated songbook
Mother Goose Songs Without Words, children's beginner piano using Mother Goose Songs by L. E. Orth.
Old English Nursery Songs 37 Pieces arranged for piano By Horace Mansion and Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Our Children's Songs With Illustrations, A complication of nearly 200 Children's Song Lyrics.
Songs Of The Child World, 60 Children's Songs with lyrics & sheet music By Alice C. D. Riley & Jessie L. Gaynor
Songs Of Childhood - Illustrated, 129 songs for Children With Lyrics & Sheet Music
Songs Games And Rhymes 200 songs with lyrics & Sheet music
The Child's Own Music Book 472+ Songs, Tunes & Graded Piano Pieces With Lyrics & Sheet Music
Traditional Children's Games of England Scotland & Ireland, including Tunes(sheet music), Singing-rhymes(lyrics), Methods Of Playing with diagrams and illustrations by ALICE BERTHA GOMME of the Folklore Society. This is a large two volume dictionary like reference book of nearly 1000 pages - look up all those games you used to play in the junior school playground.
Volume 1 ACCROSHAY to NUTS IN MAY.
Volume 2 OATS AND BEANS to WOULD YOU KNOW.
Songs Every Child Should Know - The Best Songs Of All Nations For Young People With Sheet Music & Lyrics
GRANDMAMA'S SONG BOOK - Cautionary moral songs for Children, with lyrics and sheet music.
NEW English Folk-Songs For Schools, 50+ Popular Songs With Sheet Music & Lyrics
NEW What the Children Sing - Sheet Music & Lyrics for 100+ Most Popular Nursery Songs, Rhymes & Games. With The Traditional Tunes.
Favourite Songs & Hymns For School & Home 450 Of the world's best songs and hymns, lyrics & sheet music for voice & piano
Folk Songs Of Many Nations a collection of national folk songs with lyrics & sheet music.
Franklin Square Song Collection 200 favourite songs & hymns lyrics & sheet music.
Our Familiar Songs & Those Who Made Them, 300+ song lyrics, sheet music(piano), composer info & histories of the songs.
THE SONG BOOK 350+ Song Lyrics With Sheet Music, Selected And Arranged By John Hullah. circa 1884
NEW The National Song Book - Collection of some 250 Folk-songs, Carols, And Rounds suggested By The Board Of Education, With Sheet Music and Lyrics. circa 1905
Traditional & Folk Song Lyrics - huge collection 3700+ items.
Another huge collection of around 4000 traditional & folk songs with midi files and lyrics.
TABLATURE - This is the sheet music, GUITAR TAB, and MANDOLIN TAB to go with the above 4000 songs.
Folk Song Collection with 900+ traditional & folk song lyrics with chords in easy keys.
Bawdy songs - 80 bawdy or rugby type songs, midis, lyrics & sheet music (Warning may be considered offensive by some.)
A Tankard Of Ale, An Anthology 120 Of Drinking Songs - lyrics
Pub Session Tunes - 3 part collection of 200+ tunes commonly played at pub sessions and other music sessions in the British Isles. This excellent collection probably includes 80% of the tunes commonly heard in English pub music sessions, with sheet music, lyrics & midis.
Popular Songs For The Guitar a Collection 95 Songs arranged for Guitar with Lyrics & Sheet Music.
Soldier Songs - collection of WWI songs as sung by British troops - lyrics.
Folk revival songbook - 70+ popular folk songs associated with the 60's folk revival. This is a mixed bag of folk and roots music from more than one country. The connecting feature being that they are all pieces that were popular in folk clubs around the UK during the 60's includes lyrics, sheet music & midis.
Popular & Best Known Traditional & Folk music - 80+ best known traditional song/dance tunes, lyrics sheet music & midis.
Sussex Folk Orchestra Tunes - A collection of 70+ tunes played by the Sussex Folk Orchestra. This collection contains a "bit of everything" including English, Irish, , Greek, Italian, Welsh, Scottish, American, Cajun, European etc, inc sheet music & midis.
Tunes Dad Whistled a small collection of vintage popular and folk songs arranged for piano - lyrics & sheet music.
Old Time Favourite Hits a collection of vintage popular music with sheets - lyrics & sheet music.
NEW The Angler's Songbook - A Collection of complete lyrics for 200+ Songs Related to Angling
Sea Shanties(Chanties) & Songs of the sea lyrics for 200+ items.
Music Of The Waters - Sailors' Chanties, Songs Of The Sea, Boatmen's, Fishermen's, Rowing Songs, & Water Legends with lyrics & sheet music, lyrics.
Naval Songs & Ballads a large collection of Sea and Navy song lyrics from The Navy Records Society of the British Navy with historical notes & background info.
NEW SEA SONGS - A collection of 70 Traditional Sea & Sailing related songs with complete lyrics.
Looking for Tablature (Tab)? If so we have a product which might help. The "Just the Tune" album series features many of the best and most popular of bluegrass, oldtimey and traditional tunes played in authentic traditional styles by award winning multi-instrumentalist Rick Townend. As well as being excellent listening music, these mixed format music CDs(download versions also available) can also print out sheet music and tab for Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Dulcimer, Dobro or Tenor Banjo, for each track. Check it out HERE, there is also a similar product for bluegrass harmony singing HERE. We have had a lot of positive feedback from Appalachian clog dancers who have been finding the Just the Tune series ideal for beginners to dance to as they most of the preferred tunes but not at the usual break-neck speeds. (This is a paid product)
Appalachian Clogging (stepping) tutorial by Rosie Davis. On-line version of the of her beginners tutorial.
The Morris Book by Cecil J Sharp, being an account, history, technical description and notation for traditional morris dancing.
Cowboy Dances - Western Square Dances with instructions for callers dancers with diagrams, photos & sheet music.
Singing Games a collection of traditional folk dances with lyrics & sheet music, mainly for children.
American Square Dances of The West & Southwest, instruction book with calls, instructions, diagrams, steps & sheet music.
NEW Espérance Morris Book vol 1 and Espérance Morris Book vol 2 - A Manual of Morris Dances Folk-Songs and Singing Games With Instructions, Diagrams, Sheet Music and Lyrics.
Singing and playing this the menu for all the music education material on this site.
How to Sing, complete instruction book.
How to Sing a Song - Voice and Body training for artistic song interpretation.
Voice Training In Speech & Song - online tutorial with exercises.
Training the Singing Voice - An Analysis Of The Working Concepts Contained In Recent Contributions To Vocal Pedagogy.
Songwriters Lyric Helpers - Orthometry, Versification & Technicalities Of Poetry &
COMPLETE RHYMING DICTIONARY part of above book.
How To Sing Bluegrass Harmony easy tutorial by Rick townend
How To Write A Popular Song - A non-technical how-to-do it system for the aspiring song writer.
Aural Culture Based on Musical Appreciation - exercises & tutorial material for sight singing
NEW HOW TO SING PLAIN CHANT A compilation of the practical rules and methods for performce of this ancient form of Church Music.
Chord Translation table to allow you to translate chords between any keys,
Chord charts and Scale charts for Guitar, Banjo (5 string G tuning), Mandolin and Fiddle (violin).
Jazz Chords for guitar, A simple guide by Rick Townend.
Beginners Harmony, constructing accompaniments, melodies etc, complete textbook for music students. (coming soon)
Scales & Arpeggios for keyboard with exercises.
MUSICAL MEMORY - A System To Cultivate The Musical Memory For Musicians
12 bar blues on any instrument. a basic guide by Rick Townend.
Teach Yourself Jazz - an introduction for musicians wishing to add jazz to their playing styles.
EXTEMPORE PLAYING - tutorial - 40 Lessons, how to correctly play improvisations.
How to play the Bluegrass instruments tutorial by Rick Townend
How To Play All The Popular Instruments, an easy beginners "get your started guide" for guitar, tenor banjo, mandolin, Ukulele, Hawaiian Guitar, violin, Saxophone, Trumpet and Cornet, clarinet, flute, piccolo, musical saw and many others.
An easy get-you-started tutorial series on Banjo, inc: Frailing or Clawhammer,
Bluegrass or Scruggs style, Playing by Ear & Frailing Backup Banjo.
A Book Of Five Strings - online tutorial for old-time banjo by Patrick Costello
The Eclipse Self-Instructor for 5 string banjo 1915 instruction manual for playing banjo.
The New Method for Tenor Banjo 1919, tutorial the science and art of Banjo playing.
Self learning tutorial for Ukulele, inc. songs with lyrics & sheet music.
The Kamiki Ukulele Method - online tutorial Tutorial for playing Hawaiian style ukulele with sample songs, sheet & lyrics.
The History And Development Of Musical Instruments In Various Cultures From The Earliest Times by Carl Engel
PLAYING THE RECORDERS - How to Play The Descant, Treble, Tenor and Bass Recorders
Handbook Of Violin Playing - A Tutorial For Classical Style Violin
NEW Make Your Own Spanish Guitar - Complete plans & Instruction
NEW Melodeon & Seraphine Instructor - Complete Instruction manual plus excellent collection of Victorian songs.
NEW The First Principles Of Pianoforte Playing, for school or self learners complete tutorial.
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Music -extensive traditional & folk music reference.
The Oxford Book of Ballads -The Best English Lyric Ballads Chosen & Edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch c1910
A PEPYSIAN GARLAND Black-letter Broadside Ballads Of years 1595-1639 From The Collection Of Samuel Pepys
A Century Of Ballads 1810-1910, Their Composers & Singers Inc. "Old Ballads And Ballad Makers" by Harold Simpson
The English And Scottish Popular Ballads collection - Francis Child's Famous book is one of the standard reference works for traditional folk songs & ballads. We also have below the full 8 volume version that Child published in 1860,
Volume 1, Volume 2 , Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6 , Volume 7 Volume 8
Popular Music Of The Olden Time Volume 1 by W. Chappell is a standard reference work for traditional Songs, Ballads & music.
Popular Music Of The Olden Time Volume 2
Stories of Famous Songs Vol 1 Provide histories and background information on some of the world's most famous
Stories of Famous Songs Vol 2 and popular songs, also covers regional variations in song names and with some lyrics.
Jelly Roll Morton, inventor of jazz online book by Alan Lomax with some sheet music and lyrics samples.
The Book of Jazz - all aspects of jazz explained.
The National Music of America - The Sources & Factors Influential In Forming America's Music, By Louis C. Elson c1900
Introduction to Folk Music In the United States. - Complete book by Bruno Nettl
The National Music Of The World - styles, characteristics and meaning of music associated with the traditions of nations and regions of the world
Curiosities of Music - A Collection of rare facts about the music traditions of ancient & "savage nations" includes articles on Chinese, Indian, Arab and non western tradition music, by Louis C Elson.
Folk & Traditional Music of the Western Continents, folk & traditional music of Europe, Africa & America by Bruno Nettl
NEW Military Music And Its Story - The Rise & Development Of Military Music. Henry George Farmer.
NEW Studies In Folk-song And Popular by Poetry by Alfred M. Williams 1895
INDEX To Kindergarten Songs Including Singing Games and Folk Songs by Margery Closey Quigley
Music Tech, audio and home recording glossary extensive.
Acoustics & Sound For Musicians - The Theory Of Sound Which Constitutes The Physical Basis Of The Art Of Music
Music Search/Song Finder - an index of popular music and songs from the last 500 years(approx)
Biographical Dictionary Second Edition c1952 from The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers - a wealth of info on thousands of composers/writers and their songs.
Songbook Finder - A contents list for 62 popular songbooks and tune-books of folk and traditional music.
Fake Book & Real Book Finder - A contents list of many popular fakebooks and realbooks
History & Encyclopedia Of Country, Western, & Gospel Music, composers, artists & songs index.
10 tune books in Noteworthy Composer format including O'Neill's Dance music of Ireland (1600+ tunes) (Other new Noteworthy Composer format items available from main menu)
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Folk and traditional music clubs and venues in various areas of the UK (extensive regionalized list)
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Traditional music related web resources.
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