Child, Francis J. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 10
parts in 5 Vols. 1882-98. This original source for Child Ballad numbers,
has been reissued many time over the 1925 years, including a CD-Rom,
a Dover reprint series most recently issued in 2002. Child, a Harvard
professor of English literature, collected manuscripts and texts from
as many known publihed sources as possible. A single volume student edition
was first published in 1904.
Cohen, Norm. Traditional Anglo-American Folk Music: An Annotated
Discography of Published Sound Recordings. New York, Garland Pub.,
1994. A topically organized discography focusing on recordings that
feature traditional Anglo-American material from both commericial and field
recordings issued on LP's, Cassettes and CD's. Includes indexes to performers,
titles with some cross-referencing, Laws and Child Ballad ID's, and record labels.
Dixon, Robert M. W. et.al. Blues & gospel records, 1890-1943.
Oxford, England. 4th ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 1997. More than a 1000 pages
of discographic information organized by performer and ordered by date of
recording sessions, with each listing including matrix numbers and orig. issue
info. Appearance of artists as accompanyists or side performers is also listed,
both for with other blues performers and also for side performer appearances
with non blues groups. A title and side performer index is also included.
Luchinsky, Ellen, The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
New York, Garland Publishing, 1998. A two volume index to all the song
folios in the Enoch Pratt Collection.
An Index to Printed Sources of Folk Dance Tunes from the
United States & the British Isles. Berea, KY, North American
Imprints, 1995.
Keller, Kate Van Winkle, & Carolyn Rabson, The National Tune
Index, New York, University Music Editions, 1980. This microfiche index
to mostly 18th century and earlier publications includes titles, first
line text, and several forms of incipit indexes. Most major research
Universities will have copies of this massive index to early British
& American music material. It is now available on the web at www.colonialdancing.org/Easmes/
as part of a larger index to early American musics.
Laws, G. Malcolm; Jr. Native American Balladry. A Descriptive Study and a
Bibliographic Syllabus. Rev. edition, Philadelphia, American Folklore
Society, 1964. First published in 1950, this is source book for Laws Bibliographic
ID's starting with A thru I. Provides both citations to earlier field collections
and recordings as part of a comprehensive discussion of Balladry as
it developed in the United States and Canada.
Laws, G. Malcolm; Jr. American Balladry from British Broadsides A Guid for
Students and Collectors of Traditional Song.. Philadelphia, American Folklore
Society, 1957. Similar in format to the above bibliography, this book documents the
British Broadside traditions as collected in North America. Citations point to
field collections, popular songsters and various collections of broadsides. The
bibliographic ID's for individual titles start with J thru Q.
Meade, Guthrie T.; with Dick Spottswood and Douglas S. Meade
Country Music Sources: A Biblio-discography of
Commercially Recorded Traditional Music. Chapel Hill, NC, Univ. of
North Carolina
Press, 2002. A massive index to both recordings and printed material
that focuses on
traditional and older material. Organized into four broad sections
(Ballads, Songs, Religious Songs, and Instrumental Music) with
numerious sub-sections listing titles, each of which provides a uniqued Discographic
ID, similar to the Laws Bibliographic IDs published. Recording information
includes dates, location recorded, original matrix, and records issued.
Additional info is available on composer copyrights, different labels issued
along with references to print sources and some recent reissues.
Russell, Tony; with Bob Pinson. Country Music Records; a
Discography, 1921-1942. Nashville, TN, Country Music Hall of Fame and
Museum 2004.
Covers material somewhat similar material to Meade's, but organized by performer,
rather than type of material, including an index to music titles as well.