| Books by collectors of folk songs and folk music.
For a bibliography of tunebooks, click here For a bibliography of academic books, click here. For a discography of recordings, click here. For a list of helpful websites, click here. |
| Name | Dates | Title | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayard, Samuel P. | 1908-1997 | Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife | 1982 | American |
| Bayard, Samuel P. | 1908-1997 | Hill Country Tunes | 1944 | American |
| Breathnach, Brendan | 1912-1985 | Folk Music and Dances of Ireland | 1971 | Irish |
| Bronson, Bertrand | 1902-1986 | The Ballad as Song | 1969 | English |
| Bronson, Bertrand | 1902-1986 | Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads | 1959-1972 | English |
| Bunting, Edward | 1773-1843 | The Ancient Music of Ireland | 1792 | Irish |
| Burns, Robert | 1759-1803 | The Scots Musical Museum | 1789-1803 | Scottish |
| Campbell, Olive | 1882-1954 | Songs and Ballads of the Appalachians | 1915 | American |
| Child, Francis James | 1825-1896 | The English and Scottish Popular Ballads | 1882-1898 | English |
| Duncan, James Bruce | 1848-1917 | The Greig Duncan Folk Song Collection | 1914 | Scottish |
| Ford, Robert | 1846-??? | Vagabond Songs & Ballads, vols 1 & 2 | 1899 | Scottish |
| Fraser, Simon | 1772/3-1852 | The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles | 1816 | Scottish |
| Grainger, Percy | 1882-1961 | collected folk songs and tunes | English | |
| Greig, Gavin | 1856–1914 | Last Leaves of Ballads and Ballad Airs | 1925 | Scottish |
| Greig, Gavin | 1856–1914 | The Greig Duncan Folk Song Collection | 1914 | Scottish |
| Henry, Sam | 1878–1952 | Songs of the People | Irish | |
| Hogg, James | 1770-1835 | The Jacobite Reliques of Scotland | 1821 | Scottish |
| Hugill, Stan | 1906-1992 | Shanties from the Seven Seas | 1969 | Sea Chanties |
| Jabbour, Alan | 1942-2017 | collected the fiddle tunes of Henry Reed | American | |
| Karpeles, Maud | 1859-1954 | Folk Songs of Newfoundland | 1934 | Canadian |
| Keyte, Hugh and Parrott, Andrew, ed. | The New Oxford Book of Carols | 1992 | Christmas | |
| Laws, George Malcolm | 1919-1994 | American Balladry from British Broadsides | 1957 | English |
| Lomax, Alan | 1915-2002 | Folk Songs of North America | 1960 | American |
| Lomax, John | 1867-1948 | Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads | 1910 | American |
| Lomax, John | 1867-1948 | Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp | 1919 | American |
| Lomax, John and Lomax, Alan | Best Loved American Folksongs | 1947 | American | |
| Lomax, John and Lomax, Alan | Folk Song: USA | 1947 | American | |
| Lomax, John and Lomax, Alan | Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Leadbelly | 1936 | American | |
| Lomax, John and Lomax, Alan | Our Singing Country | 1941 | American | |
| MacColl, Ewan | 1915-1989 | Travelers'Songs from England and Scotland | 1977 | English |
| Neale, J. M. | 1818-1866 | Carols for Christmastide | 1853-1854 | English |
| O'Neill, Francis | 1848-1906 | O'Neill's Music of Ireland | 1903 | Irish |
| O'Neill, Francis | 1848-1906 | The Dance Music of Ireland | 1907 | Irish |
| O'Neill, James | one source for O'Neill's Music | Irish | ||
| Ord, John | 1710–1769 | The Bothy Songs & Ballads of Aberdeen … | 1930 | Scottish |
| Oswald, James | The Caledonian Pocket Companion | 1751 | Scottish | |
| Ramsay, Allan | 1684-1758 | Tea-Table Miscellany | 1724 | Scottish |
| Ritchie, Jean | 1922-2015 | Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians | 1997 | American |
| Ritchie, Jean | 1922-2015 | Singing Family of the Cumberlands | 1955 | American |
| Scarborough, Dorothy | 1828-1935 | A Songcatcher in the Southern Mountains | 1937 | American |
| Scott, Walter | 1771-1832 | Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border | 1803 | Scottish |
| Seeger, Michael | 1933-2009 | collected songs and banjo tunes from various sources | ||
| Seeger, Peggy | 1935- | collected English and Scottish traveler's songs | ||
| Seeger, Peter | 1919-2014 | collected songs and banjo tunes from various sources | ||
| Sharp, Cecil | 1859-1924 | English Folk Song: Some Conclusions | 1907 | English |
| Sharp, Cecil | 1859-1924 | One Hundred English folk songs | 1916 | English |
| Sharp, Cecil; Karpeles, Maud, ed. | 1859-1924 | English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians | 1915 | American |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | 1872-1958 | Collected Folk Songs and Tunes | English |