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Barlow, Jeremy, The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford’s Dancing Master, 1651-c.1728, Faber Music (1985).

Barlow, Jeremy, The Music of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera; hardback edition includes critical commentary and history of the tunes. Oxford University Press (1990).

Bronson, Bertrand Harris, The Singing Tradition of Child’s Popular Ballads, Princeton University Press (1976).

Chappell, William, Popular Music of the Olden Time, Cramer, Beale & Chappell (1855-9). Dover reprint also available.

Dean-Smith, Margaret, A Guide to English Folk Song Collections 1822-1952 With an Index to Their Contents, Historical Annotations and an Introduction, University Press of Liverpool in association with The English Folk Dance & Song Society (1954).

Dean-Smith, Margaret, Playford’s English Dancing Master 1651, A Facsimile Reprint with an Introduction, Bibliography and Notes, Schott & Co. Ltd (1957).

Simpson, Claude M., The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, Rutgers University Press (1966).

 

ARTICLES BY JOHN M. WARD

 

The Dolfull Domps, Journal of the American Musical Society, Vol. 4 (1951): pp. 111-121.

 
 

Music for A Handefull of pleasant delites, Journal of the American Musical Society, Vol. 10 (1957): pp. 151-180.

 
 

Joan qd John and Other Fragments at [Case] Western Reserve University, in Jan LaRue, ed., Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music, New York, 1966 (reprint 1978): pp. 832-855.

 
 

Apropos The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, Journal of the American Musical Society, Vol. 20 (1967): pp. 28-86.

 
 

Curious Tunes for Strange Histories, in Laurence Berman, ed., Words and Music: The Scholar's View, Cambridge, Mass., 1972: pp. 339-358.

 
 

The Morris Tune, Journal of the American Musical Society, Vol. 39 (1986): pp. 294-331.

 
 

And who but Ladie Greensleeves?, in John Caldwell, Edward Olleson, and Susan Wollenberg, eds., The Well-Enchanting Skill: Essays in Honour of Frederick W. Sternfeld, Oxford, 1990: pp. 181-211.