a. Raccolte di Ballate, canzoni popolari, arie ecc.

Riferimento nell’opera 
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 				BAEZ, Joan: Ballate e canzoni, traduzione e note a cura di 
				Michele L. Straniero. Roma, Newton Compton Editori, 1977

Baldi				BALDI, Sergio, Ballate popolari d’Inghilterra e di Scozia, testo,
				traduzione, introduzione e note a cura di Sergio Baldi. Firenze,
				Sansoni editore, 1946 (rist. anastatica, ibidem, 1983)

Barry				BARRY, Phillips, with Eckstrom, F.H. and Smyth, M.V.: Ballads
				from Maine, New Haven, Conn., 1929

Belden				BELDEN, H.M.: Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri
				Folk-Lore Society, University of Missouri Studies, XV, 1; Columbia,
				Mo., 1940 (ristampa: ibidem, 1955)

				BROADWOOD, L.E.: English Traditional Songs and Carols,
				London, 1908

				BROADWOOD, L.E., FULLER-MAITLAND, J.A.: English
				Country Songs, London and New York, 1893

				BRUCE, J.C., STOKOE, John: Northumbrian Minstrelsy, 2 voll.,
				Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1882

Buchan			BUCHAN, Peter: Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of 
				Scotland, 3 voll., Edinburgh, 1828 (ristampa: ibidem, 1968)

				BUCHAN, Peter: Gleanings of Scotch, English and Irish Scarce
				Old Ballads. Peterhead, Scotland, 1825

				CHAPPELL, William: Popular Music of the Olden Time, 2 voll.,
				London, 1855-1859

*Child				CHILD, Francis James: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads,
				5 voll., Harvard University Press, 1882-1898 (rist., ibidem, 1957)

				CHRISTIE, William: Traditional Ballad Airs, 2 voll., Edinburgh,
				1876-1881

				CUNNINGHAM, Allan: The Songs of Scotland, 4 voll., London,
				1825
				DIXON, J.H.: Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry
				of England, London, 1846

D’Urfey			D’URFEY, Thomas Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy,
				edited by Thomas D’Urfey, 6. voll., London, 1719-1720

				FLANDERS, Helen H.: Ancient Ballads Traditionally Sung in New
				England, 4 voll., Philadelphia, 1960

Friedmann			The Penguin Book of Folk Ballads of the English-speaking World,
				edited by Albert B. FRIEDMANN. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books,
				1956 (Rist.: ibidem, 1982)

*Greig				GREIG, Gavin: Last Leaves of Traditional Ballads, edited by 
				Alexander Keith. Aberdeen, Scotland, 1925 

Henry				HENRY, M.E.: Folk Songs from the Southern Highlands. New York,
				1938

*Herd				HERD, David: The Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, Heroic Ballads
				and other Poems, Edinburgh, 1769; [edizione ampliata, 2 voll., ibidem,
				1776]

				[HODGART, M.] The Faber Book of Ballads, edited by Matthew
				Hodgart. London, Faber & Faber, 1965

JAF				Journal of American Folklore, 1887-

*Jamieson			JAMIESON, Robert: Popular Ballads and Songs, 2 voll., Edinburgh,
				1806

JFDS				Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1932-
				KIDSON, Frank: Traditional Tunes. Oxford, 1891

*Kinley			[KINLEY, James] The Oxford Book of Ballads, selected and edited 
				by James Kinley. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press,
				1982

Kinloch			KINLOCH, G.R.: Ancient Scottish Ballads. London and Edinburgh,
				1827

*Motherwell			MOTHERWELL, William: Minstrelsy. Glasgow, 1827

Pepys				[PEPYS, Samuel] The Pepys Ballads, edited by H.E. Rollins, 8 voll.,
				Cambridge, Mass., 1929-1932
 
*Percy, Reliques		PERCY, Thomas: Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 8 voll., 
				London, 1765 [numerose edizioni posteriori, fino ai nostri giorni]

*Percy, in-folio		Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript, edited by J.W. Hales and F.J.
				Furnivall, with a Supplement of "Loose and Humorous Songs".
				3 voll., London 1867-1868

PMLA				Publications of the Modern Language Association, 1885-
				RAMSAY, Allan: The Ever Green, 2 voll.,Edinburgh 1724

‘Q’				QUILLER-COUCH, (Sir) Arthur: The Everyman’s Ballad Book,
				bringing together the best Ballads out of the whole of our national
				Stock. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1910

*Ramsay			RAMSAY, Allan: The Tea-Table Miscellany, 4 voll., Edinburgh,
				1723-1740 [II edizione: ibidem, 1750]

*Ravenscroft			RAVENSCROFT, Arthur: Deuteromelia. London, 1609

				RAVENSCROFT, Arthur: Melismata, Musicall Phansies.
				London, 1611

				RIMBAULT, E.F.: Musical Illustrations of Bishop Percy’s Reliques,
				London, 1850

*Ritson			RITSON, Joseph, A Selected Collection of English Songs, 
				London, 1783

				RITSON, Joseph: Ancient Songs from the Time of King Henry the
				Third to the Revolution, London, 1796

				RITSON, Joseph: Robin Hood. 2 voll., 1795

*Roxburghe			Roxburghe Ballads, edited by William Chappell and J.W. Ebsworth,
				9 voll., Hertford and London, 1871-1899

				SANDYS, William: Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern.
				London, 1833

*Scott				SCOTT, [Sir] Walter: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 3 voll.,
				Kelso, Scotland, 1802-1803 [numerose edizioni posteriori fino ai
				nostri giorni]

				SHARP, C.J.: English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians,
				edited by Maud Karpeles, 2 voll., Oxford, 1932

*Sharp				SHARP, C.J. and MARSON, C.L., One Hundred English Folksongs,
				New York, 1916

Sharpe				SHARPE, Cecil Kirstensen: A Ballad Book. Edinburgh, 1823

b. Bibliografie generali
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				COFFIN, T.P.: The British Traditional Ballad in America,
				2nd Edition, Philadelphia, 1963

				DEAN SMITH, Margaret: A Guide to English Folk Song
				Collections, 1822-1952. Liverpool, 1954

c. Musica delle ballate
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*Bronson			BRONSON, B.H.: The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads,
				4 vols., Princeton, N.J., 1959-1972.
				[Esiste un’editio minor con lo stesso titolo, ma in un solo volume:
				Princeton, N.J., 1976]

				BRONSON, B.H.: The Ballad as Song, Berkeley and Los Angeles,
				1959

*Simpson			SIMPSON, Claude M.: The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music,
				New Brunswick, N.J., 1966

d. Analisi critica e monografie su singole ballate


*Christophersen		CHRISTOPHERSEN, Paul: The Ballad of Sir Aldingar, Oxford, 
				1952

				COFFIN, T.P.: The Critics and the Ballad, Carbondale, Ill., 1961

				ENTWISTLE, W.J.: European Balladry, Oxford, 1939

*Fowler			FOWLER, D.C.: A Literary History of the Popular Ballad,
				Durham, N.C., 1968

				FRIEDMAN, Albert B.: The Ballad Revival, Chicaco, 1961

*Gerould			              GEROULD, G.H.: The Ballad of Tradition, Oxford, 1932

*Gummere			GUMMERE, Francis B.: The Popular Ballad, Boston, 1907

				HENDREN, J.W.: A Study of Ballad Rhythms, Princeton, N.J.,
				1936
  
				LONG, Eleanor: "The Maid" and "the Hangman", Berkeley and
				Los Angeles, 1971

				NYGARD, H.O.: The Ballad of Heer Halewijn (‘Lady Isabel
				and the Elf-Knight’), Knoxville, Tenn., 1958

				POUND, Louise: Poetic Origins and the Ballad, New York, 1921

				WIMBERLY, L.C.: Folklore in the English and Scottish Ballads,
				Chicago, 1928