Folk Traditional category: 475 books

This volume is a monument among ballad books containing 158 of the most popular Irish ballads and songs which echo and resound throughout the pubs of Ireland and indeed throughout the world by Ireland’s leading folk groups. Along with notes on many of the ballads, this book features a fine collection...

The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of religious worship, this fusion of dance, song, and percussion survives today in the Bolton Community of McIntosh County, Georgia. Incorporating oral history,...

Words and music to forty-one folk songs.

This giant book features over 100 of America's favorite folk songs, expertly arranged for the Appalachian dulcimer. Children's songs, work songs, old Anglo-American ballads, songs of strife and freedom, love songs and much, much more are all gathered here in arrangements suitable for the beginning...

Sang Thong: A Dance-Drama from Thailand, a beloved treasure of Thailand's classical theater is now available for the first time in English. Composed by King Rama II and his court poets early in the 19th century, this captivating dance-drama blends ribald humor, sharp observation, and graceful...

All The Little Lights is the third studio album released by British folk-rock singer-songwriter Mike Rosenberg, better known by his stage name Passenger. This beautifully arranged songbook, for Piano, Vocal and Guitar, contains sheet music for all songs from the album, including the hugely successful Let Her Go.

Merlin’s Guide to the Merlin: Ten Fun Songs for the Seagull Merlin Contents: -Amazing Grace -Arkansas Traveler -Aura Lee -Blackberry Blossom -The Devil’s Dream -Fisher’s Hornpipe -Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself -Minuet in G (in D) -Ode to Joy -Swallowtail Jig Merlin’s Guide to the...

Despite her best efforts to lead a peaceful life, murder, mystery and mayhem continue to follow reluctant sleuth Randy Craig. Maybe she shouldn?t live in Edmonton. Or date a cop. Or work for the famous Folkways Collection library on the University of Alberta campus. Randy has just started the dream...

This carefully crafted and collectible volume tells the intimate story of Peter, Paul, and Mary and their music, in their words and with iconic images that follow their passionate, fifty-year journey to the center of America’s heart. Photographs, many rare and never before published, taken over...

In 2003, the Korean singing tradition of p’ansori joined the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a distinctive honor bestowed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. P’ansori is a music genre—an oral tradition comprisingi arias...

The folksongs of Texas's Mexican population pulsate with the lives of folk heroes, gringos, smugglers, generals, jailbirds, and beautiful women. In his cancionero, or songbook, Américo Paredes presents sixty-six of these songs in bilingual text—along with their music, notes on tempo and performance,...

Over 200 great songs arranged for the five-string banjo complete with lyrics for each song. Includes folk songs, sentimental favourites, song of the sea, fiddle tunes, and much more.

A comprehensive 96-page, large print/big note perfect-bound collection of all time favorite violin tunes. Includes folk songs, sea chanties, gospel songs, spirituals, hymns, patriotic sons and more. Guitar chords are included.

Thor resorts to cross-dressing in a bid to recover his stolen hammer. The hero Widrick Waylandsson comes face to face with a troll in the forest. A king's daughter is abducted from a convent in rural Sweden. A young fighter has to show off his prowess in skiing and shooting for King Harald Hardrada....