Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids

A List of English-Language Materials Relating to Spanish and Basque Folk Music and Dance

Compiled by: Archive of Folk Culture staff
Publication Date: January 15, 1971

Alford, Violet.
"Cantabrian Calendar Customs and Music." Musical Quarterly, volume 20, number 4, October 1934, pp. 435-451.

"Dances and Songs in Two Pyrenean Valleys." Musical Quarterly, volume 17, number 2, April 1931, pp. 248-258.

Armstrong, Lucile.
Dances of Spain. London: Parrish [Handbook of European National Dances, 12, 16], 1950.

Brown, Irving.
Deep Song, Adventures with Gypsy Songs and Singers in Andalusia and Other Lands. New York, 1929.

Chase, Gilbert.
The Music of Spain. Second revised edition, New York: Dover Publications, 1959.

Entwistle, William J.
European Balladry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1939.

Gallop, Rodney A.
"Basque Wassailing Songs." Music and Letters, volume 11, number 4, October 1930, pp. 324-340.

"The Peasant Songs of the Basques." Musical Courrier, June 25, 1932, p. 6.

"The Development of Folk-Song in Portugal and the Basque Country." Proceedings of the Musical Association, volume 61, 1935, pp. 61-80.

"Basque Songs from Soule." Musical Quarterly, volume 22, number 4, October 1936, pp. 458-469.

George, David.
The Flamenco Guitar. Madrid: Society of Spanish Studies, 1969.

Hughes, Russell Meriwether [La Meri].
Spanish Dancing. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1948. Reprint edition, Pittsfield, Mass.: Eagle Printing, 1967.

Lockhart, John Gibson.
Ancient Spanish Ballads. 1842. Reprint edition, New York: Benjamin Blom. 1969.

McCall, Grant.
"The Txistulari in Basque Culture." Journal of Popular Culture, volume 3, number 3, Winter 1969, pp. 468-479.

Morley, Sylvanus Griswold.
Spanish Ballad Problems: The Native Historical Themes. Berkeley: University of California Publications in Modern Philology, volume 13, number 2, 1925.

Pohren, Donn E.
The Art of Flamenco. Jerez de la Frontera: Jarez Industrial, 1962.

Lives and Legends of Flamenco: A Biographical History. Madrid: Society of Spanish Studies, 1964.

Rice, Cyril.
Dancing in Spain. London: British-continental Press, 1931.

Schindler, Kurt.
Folk Music and Poetry of Spain and Portugal. Música y Poesía popular de Espana y Portugal. New York: Hispanic Institute in the United States, 1941.

Starkie, Walter.
Spanish Raggle-Taggle: Adventures with a Fiddle in Northern Spain. London: J. Murphy, 1934.

Don Gypsy: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha. London, 1936.

Trend, J. B.
Folk Music: Spanish. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Fifth edition by Eric Bloom, London, volume 3, 1954, pp. 368-372.