- UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive. Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads. The Music of the Sixteenth Century Broadside Ballad. [ XXX to add: 1595 welsh doco, half hannikin, newcastle, jenny pluck pears, staines morris, mundesse ] This article is compilation of music used in early broadside ballads.
Almost none of these ballads were printed with music; thus, discovering this music requires matching tunes to words with only the title as a guide. I have included both ballads for which the music is known to be written down before 1600, and music from after 1600 which matches ballads known to have been written down before 1600.