Folk Music
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American Song Bag
by Carl Sandburg
Famous poet Carl Sandburg was also a collector of American folk music. He compiled around 290 songs in this anthology, which contains singable words and music, including harmonies or accompaniment.
Some some titles include:
"No More Booze (Fireman Save My Child)" / "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" / 'The Foggy Dew' / 'Barbara Allen' / 'As I Was Walkin' Down Wexford Street' / 'Pretty Polly' / 'The House Carpenter' / 'The E-RI-E' / 'The Ballad Of De Boll Weevil' / 'The Buffalo Skinners' / 'Turkey In... Read more about this item
Some some titles include:
"No More Booze (Fireman Save My Child)" / "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" / 'The Foggy Dew' / 'Barbara Allen' / 'As I Was Walkin' Down Wexford Street' / 'Pretty Polly' / 'The House Carpenter' / 'The E-RI-E' / 'The Ballad Of De Boll Weevil' / 'The Buffalo Skinners' / 'Turkey In... Read more about this item
How Can I Keep From Singing
by David King Dunaway
Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-476), discography (p. [477]-491), and index.
The Complete Poems and Lyrics
by Joni Mitchell
With a career spanning thirty years, Joni Mitchell is one of the most highly esteemed singer/songwriters in popular music. She has recorded seventeen albums and is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including several Grammy awards - two in 1996 for her Turbulent Indigo release - and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Songwriters. Joni was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and into the National Academy of Popular Music Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 1997.
Songs Of the Serbian People From the Collections Of Vuk Karadzic
by Milne and Vasa D Mihailovich Holton
British Broadside Ballads Of the Sixteenth Century, a Catalogue Of the Extant Sheets and An Essay
by Carole Rose Livingston
Folk Music Books & Ephemera
In the Hollow of Your Hand : Slave Lullabies
by Alice McGill
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2000. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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€6.08
Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since 1898
by D.K. Wilgus
466 pages. Dust jacket is price-clipped and in a protective cover. Jacket has a few small chips and tears on top and bottom edges, and some stains and rubbing on the back and spine. Covers are very clean with sharp corners and spine ends. Pages are clean and crisp with no markings noted except for an owner name inside the front cover.This would be NF were it not for the signature.
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€23.62
THE SCIENCE OF FOLKLORE
by Krappe, Alexander Haggerty
Methuen & Co, 1965. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Methuen & Co., c1930, 1965 printing. 344pp., index. 8vo. Previous owner's name written on front pastedown page, else fine bright looks unread hardcover in near fine d/j.
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€28.34
The American Songbag
by Sandburg, Carl
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. Good hardcover with no dust jacket. . Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket.
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€42.51
The Science of Folk-Lore
by Krappe, Alexander Haggerty
London: Methuen & Co., LTD (1930), 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xxi, [3], 344, [2], 3-8 (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and gold rules on the spine. Price of 10/6 net on the spine panel. A foundational reference work in the study of folk-lore and fairy tales. Dr. Krappe examines the origins of different tropes in fairy tales, and explores the prevailing theories of how these stories came to be. His work studies stories from...
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€207.81
American Folk Songs of Protest
by GREENWAY, John
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Owner's stamp and signature front fly, else about fine lacking the dustwrapper.
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€61.40
The Science of Folklore.
by Krappe, Alexander Haggerty
paperback. Fine. 4th printing. NY (Norton) (1964). Stiff wraps. About fine.
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€9.45
Read 'em and Weep: A Treasury of American Songs
by Sigmund Spaeth
Arco Publishing, 1945. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: . 248 pages. Light shelf wear, pages yellowed; a good solid book. The jacket is chipped, torn and discolored. Foreword by Richard Rodgers. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music, Opera, Ballet, Dance; Inventory No: 198697. .
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€5.67
Songs of the Great American West
by Irwin Silber and Earl Robinson
334 pages with nearly 100 songs with music notation and chords for guitar. Songs are also preceded with commentary on the origins and times. Cover is clean - except as noted - with some rubbing on the back and lightly bumped corners. The inside front cover has been damaged by removal of an affixed paper - see photos. There is also a photo or postcard affixed to the FFEP - see photos. Pages are clean and no markings were noted except for some errant pen marks on page 51 see photo - and a few light...
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€18.89
FOLKSINGERS AND FOLKSONGS IN AMERICA:; A Handbook of Biography, Bibliography, and Discography
by Lawless, Ray M
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. pp: xviii, 662; 16pp illus from photographs. Has a long checklist of folksong titles, a 100-page discography, and more than 200 pages on singers of ballads and folksongs. Bound in black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, printed dust wrapper. 8.5" x 5.75" This excellent reference work includes sections on major folksong collectors and collections, folkore societies, folk festivals, "new faces," folk instruments, etc.
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€28.34
Ozark Folklore: An Annotated Bibliography - Two Volume Set
by Randolph, Vance; McCann, Gordon
Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1987. Two Volume Set, Fine Hardcovers with dustjackets, As New. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Two Book Set.
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€231.43
Songs Under Sail
by Peter Heaton and Maria Bird
87 pages. 30 songs with piano arrangement and numerous seafaring illustrations. Copyright 1963. States, "First Published March 1963."Dust jacket is clipped and chipped on top and bottom edges, but largely intact. Covers are very clean with square corners and stiff spine ends. Pages are very clean... so much that pages 78 & 79 are still joined at the front edge. No marking or annotations were noted.
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€18.89
Folksingers and Folksongs in America: A Handbook of Biography, Bibliography and Discography
by Ray M. Lawless
Duell Sloan Pearce, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: . Signed by Author. 662 pages. Light wear, pages yellowed; a sound binding; very good otherwise. The jacket has some wear and tear, discoloring. The book is inscribed and signed by the author, dated 1960. Folk music. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music, Opera, Ballet, Dance; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 196504. .
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€28.34
Bob Dylan: Too Much Of Nothing Paperback
by BOB DYLAN
BOB DYLAN - Bob Dylan: Too Much Of Nothing Paperback - Books. BRAND NEW.
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€11.83
Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since 1898
by D.K. Wilgus
Rutgers State University, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: . 466 pages. Lightly yellowed pages; tight book; very good shape. 2nd printing. The jacket has light creasing and wear; discoloring. Contents are The Ballad War I: The Morphology of Dry Bones; The Ballad War II: The Emersonians; Folksong Collections in Great Britain and North America; The Study of Anglo-American Folksong; appendixes. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music, Opera, Ballet, Dance; ISBN:...
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€7.08
When the Saints Go Marching In
by Arranged by Wayne Douglas
Very good clean condition Soprano Alto Choral arrangement of this wonderful Negro Spiritual, "When the Saints Go Marching In "! No writing or marks. Very light wear for choral music that was used. Unique in that alto part is spoken as a drum in opening section!
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€3.54
American Folksongs of Protest.
by Greenway, John
1 . hardback. Near Fine. 1st ed. U of Pennsylvania, 1953. Minor pencilings throughout and name on endpaper, else near fine.
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€47.23
Pennsylvania Songs & Legends
by Korson, George, Editor
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949. First edition. Large 8vo. Brown cloth covered boards stamped in green. Top edge of text block stained in brown. 474 pp. including index. Tiny stain on fore-edge of title page. Otherwise book is fine./Dust jacket with chips and a few tears is in good condition only.. Illustrations by George P. Allen. Chapter titles: The British Folk Tradition; Pennsylvania German Songs; Amish Hymns as Folk Music; The Cornplanter Indians; Central Pennsylvania Legends;...
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€20.78
Peter, Paul & Mary: Deluxe Anthology
by Peter Paul & Mary
Warner Bros Pubns, 1990. Sheet music. New. 224 pages. 12.25x9.25x0.75 inches.
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€26.71
The American Songbag
by Sandburg, Carl
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, pages toned, vintage . bookseller's label on front free endpaper.. 1927. Later Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth with orange topstain. xxiii, 495pp. Black and white illustrations, musical notations, and index. Classic description of 280 American musical examples of spirituals, ballads, and hobo songs. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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€23.62
Fireside Book of Folk Songs
by Margaret Bradford Boni (ed)
Second printing of a book that is rarely available in the UK. Contains music and lyrics for numerous folk songs, selected and edited by Margaret Bradford Boni and arranged for the piano by Norman Lloyd. Colour illustrations by Alice and Martin Provensen. Green cloth boards. Decorated endcovers.
No dust jacket. Covers extensively worn and rubbed, especially on front cover and edges; corners heavily bumped. Pages clean; lightly creased at lower corner. Binding intact.
No dust jacket. Covers extensively worn and rubbed, especially on front cover and edges; corners heavily bumped. Pages clean; lightly creased at lower corner. Binding intact.
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€23.69
BOB DYLAN: KNOCKED OUT LOADED
by Dylan, Bob
Secaucus, NJ Warner Bros. 1986, 1986. First Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial paper covers and contents in fine condition. 12" x 9" 36pp Contains lyrics, music, guitar chords and frames for eight songs written and performed by Bob Dylan. Includes: Brownsville Girl; They Killed Him; You Want to Ramble; and five more. Illustrated by covers and 5 photos in color. First Edition. Binding is original wraps.
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€23.62
The Original Guckhert's Chords for Tenor Banjo at Sight without Notes or Teacher
by Union Music Co. eds
Union Music Co, Toldeo, OH, 1921. 1st Edition. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Good Condition. wraps a bit chipped. Uncommon . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music; Folk Music; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 21501. .
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€14.17
