Traditional Tunes

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Kidson, Frank, ed., Traditional Tunes: A Collection of Ballad Airs, Chiefly Obtained in Yorkshire and the South of Scotland; Together with their Appropriate Words from Broadsides and from Oral Tradition (Oxford: Chas. Taphouse, 1891; repr. East Ardsley: S. R. Publishers, 1970).

Collection of songs edited in a scholarly manner (with the emphasis on the melody), mainly from Yorkshire, some illustrative of nineteenth-century social conditions.