English folk music (1500–1899)
Births and deaths
Births
- William Kimber (1872–1961) English morris musician
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) English composer and song collector
- Sam Larner (1878–1965) English folk singer
- Percy Grainger (1882–1961) Australian composer who collected and recorded English folk songs
- Harry Cox (1885–1971) English folk singer
- Lewis 'Scan' Tester (1886–1972) English folk musician
Collections of songs or music
- 1651 "English Dancing Master" by John Playford (1623–1686)
- 1725 "A Collection of Old Ballads" by Ambrose Philips
- 1765 "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry" by Thomas Percy (1721–1811)
- 1765 "Mother Goose's Melody" by anonymous
- 1788 "Yorkshire Garland" by Joseph Ritson
- 1793 "Northumberland Garland" by Joseph Ritson
- 1798 Manuscript dance tune book by Joshua Jackson
- 1827 "Minstrelsy Ancient and Modern" by William Motherwell (1797–1835)
- 1842 "Nursery Rhymes of England" by James Orchard Halliwell
- 1849 "Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales" by James Orchard Halliwell
- 1859 "Popular Music of Olden Time" by William Chappell (1809–1888)
- 1882 "English and Scottish Popular Ballads" by Francis James Child (1825–1896)
- 1893 English County Songs by J. A. Fuller Maitland (1856–1936) and Lucy Broadwood (1858–1929)
- 1893 "Songs and Ballads Of Northern England" by I Stokoe
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