Tunebook Bibliography
Tunebooks and sources
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  Author Title Publisher Date
  Baez, Joan Joan Baez Songbook, The Music Sales America 1964
  Bancalari, Robert Celtic Encyclopedia Mel Bay Publications 1999
  Barlow, Jeremy Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master, The Faber Music 1985
* Bayard, Samuel P. Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife Penn State Press 1982
* Bayard, Samuel P. Hill Country Tunes American Folklore Society 1944
  Bok, Gordon Time and the Flying Snow Folk-Legacy 1977
  Brand, Oscar Songs of '76 M. Evans & Co. 1972
  Brody, David Fiddler's Fakebook Oak Publications 1983
  Burke, John John Burke's Book of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes for Banjo AMSCO Music Publishers 1968
* Chappell, William Popular music of the Olden Time (orignal publ: 1835) Dover Publications 1965
* Cohn, John, Seeger, Mike and
Stephenson, Hally, ed.
New Lost City Ramblers Song Book, The Oak Publications 1964
  Collins, Judy Judy Collins Songbook, The Grosset & Dunlap 1969
  Dearmer, Percy, Vaughan Williams, Ralph and Shaw, Martin, ed. Oxford Book of Carols, The Oxford University Press 1928
  Duarte, John 60 Ribald Songs from Pills to Purge Melencholy Random House 1962
  Frey, Hugo, ed. Victory Song Book Robbins Music Corp. 1942
* Galvin, Patrick Irish Songs of Resistance Oak Publications 1962
  Hart, Harold, ed. Bawdy Bedside Reader, The Bell Publishing Co. 1971
  Howard, John Tasker A Treasury of Stephan Foster Random House 1946
  Hugill, Stan Shanties from the Seven Seas Mystic Seaport Museum 1994
  Ives, Burl Burl Ives Song Book, The : American song in historical perspective Ballentine Books 1953
* Jabbour, Alan & Rucker, Liberty Fiddle Tunes Illuminated Alan Jabbour 2009
  Karpeles, Maud & Schofield, Kenworthy, ed. A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs Hargail Music Press 1951
* Keyte, Hugh & Parrott, Andrew, ed. New Oxford Book of Carols, The Oxford University Press 1992
  Kitteredge, George Lyman English and Scottish Popular Ballads, The Houghton, Mifflin 1940
  Krassen, Miles, ed. O'Neill's Music of Ireland Oak Publications 1976
  Lamancusa, John The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes self published 2021
  Levenson, Dan Old-Time Festival Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo Mel Bay 2006
  Lloyd, A. L., ed. Folk Songs of the Americas Novello and Company 1965
  Loesburg, John, ed. Irish Tunebook, An, part 1 Ossian Publishing 1986
  Loesburg, John, ed. Irish Tunebook, An, part 2 Ossian Publishing 1986
* Lomax, Alan Folk Songs of North America Doubleday 1960
  Lomax, John and Lomax, Alan Best Loved American Folksongs (Also known as Folk Song USA) Grosset & Dunlap 1947
  Lovett, Benjamin B. "Good Morning" Music, Calls ... for Old Time Dancing Henry Ford 1943
  Moon, John C. Musick of the Fifes and Drums, Vol 2: Slow Marches Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 1977
  Moon, John C. Musick of the Fifes and Drums, Vol 3: Medleys Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 1977
  Morgan, Harry Why was he born so beautiful and other Rugby Songs Sphere Books LTD 1967/1985
  Muller, Eric & Koehler, Barbara, ed. Frailing the 5-string Banjo Mel Bay Publishing 1973
  Niles, John Jacob Ballad Book, The Bramhall House 1960
  O'Neill, Francis Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies Mel Bay Publications (reprint) 1903
  Perlman, Ken Melodic Clawhammer Banjo Oak Publications 1979
  Perlman, Ken New England & Irish Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo Chappell and Co 1980
  Philips, Stacy Fiddle Case Tunebook: British Isles Amsco Publications 1989
  Quiller-Couch, Arthur Oxford Book of Ballads, The Oxford University Press 1910/1955
  Ritchie, Jean Dulcimer Book, The Oak Publications 1963
  Robinson, Earl, ed. Young Folk Song Book Simon & Schuster 1963
  Sandberg, Larry and Weissman, Dick Folk Music Sourcebook, The Alfred A, Knopf 1976
  Sawyer, Henry S., Ed. Denison's Christmas Songs and Carols T. S. Denison 1927
  Schulte, Karl, Ed. Christmas Carols Whitman Publishing Co. 1938
  Seeger, Peggy Folk Songs of Peggy Seeger Oak Publications 1964
  Seeger, Pete American Favorite Ballads Oak Publications 1961
  Seeger, Pete Bells of Rhymney Oak Publications 1964
  Seeger, Pete How to Play the Five String Banjo, 3rd edition Peter Seeger 1962
  Sharp, Cecil, ed. 100 English Folk Songs Oliver Ditson 1916
* Sharp, Cecil English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians Oxford University Press 1932
  Silberberg, Gene The Complete Fiddle Tunes I Either Did or Didn't Learn at the Tractor Tavern Gene Silberberg 2007
  Slater, Alec Clawhammer Banjo Solos Mel Bay Publishing 1979
  Solomon, Maynard, ed. Joan Baez Songbook, The Ryerson Publishing 1964
  Songer, Susan Portland Collection, Volume 1, The self published 1997
  Songer, Susan Portland Collection, Volume 2, The self published 2005
  Staines, Bill If I Were a Word, Then I'd Be a Song Folk-Legacy 1986
  Thede, Marion The Fiddle Book Oak Publications 1970
  Walker, William Southern Harmony & Musical Companion, The University Press of Kentucky 1987
  Ward, William R. American Bicentennial Songbook, The Charles Hansen Educational Music & Books 1975
  Warner, James A. Songs That Made America Grossman Publishers 1972
  White, Benjamin Franklin Sacred Harp, The Sacred Harp Publications 1991
  Williamson, Robin English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish Fiddle Tunes Oak Publications 1976
  Wyeth, John Repository of Sacred Music Da Capo Press 1964
  --- Complete Works of O'Carolan, The Ossian Publications 1984
  --- One Thousand Fiddle Tunes M M Cole 1940
  --- Songs from a Colonial Tavern Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 1964
  --- Treasure Chest of Christmas Songs and Carols Treasure Chest Publications 1936
* - books that contain collections of songs/tunes and also analyses of specific songs/tunes and categories of folk music.