The following list of books is not to be considered definitive, but rather a generally suggested reading list for those interested in the Bardic Path.

Some of these books are more useful than others, but we have found good things in all of them.

It's a good idea to also get, and read, a good Bible. There's lots of wisdom in there.

• Adler, Margot, "Drawing Down The Moon" (Boston: Beacon Press, 1986)
  
• Baudino, Gael, "Gossamer Axe" (NY: ROC/Penguin, 1990)
• Campbell, Joseph with Moyers, Bob H., "The Power of Myth" (NY: Doubleday 1988)
• Cavendish, Richard, "Man, Myth and Magic" (Vol. 1 et. al.) (New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp. 1970)
  
• De Lint, Charles, "Moonheart" (NY: Tom Doheney Assoc. 1984)
• Farrar, Janet & Stewart and Bone, Gavin, "The Pagan Path" (Custer, WA, Phoenix Pub. 1994)
• Frazer, James G., "The Golden Bough" (NY: Avenel 1981)
• Matthews, Caitlin & John. "The Western Way" (NY: Penguin (Arkana) 1994)
• Meyers, John Meyers, "Silverlock" (NY: Ace Books 1966)
• Smith, Adam, "Powers of Mind" (NY: Random House, 1975)
• Starhawk (pseud.), "The Spiral Dance" (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1979)
  
• Stewart, Mary, "The Crystal Cave," "The Hollow Hills," "The Last Enchantment," "The Wicked Day" (NY: William Morrow & Co. 1979 et al)
  
• Stone, Merlin, "When God Was A Woman" (NY: Dorset Press, 1976)
  

• Anderson, Victor, "Thorns of the Blood Rose" (Nemeton 1980)
• Andrews, Ted, "Magickal Dance" (Llewellyn, 1993)
  
• Armstrong, R. B., "The Irish And Highland Harps" (Edinburgh, 1904, Facsimile edition: Praeger 1969)
• Bostwick, James, "Irish Druids And Old Irish Religions" (Dorset Press, 1986; orig. published in 1894)
  
• Briggs, Katherine, "An Encyclopaedia of Fairies" (New York: Pantheon 1976)
  
• Bronson, Bertrand Harris, "The Singing Tradition Of Child's Popular Ballads" (Princeton University Press 1976)
• Buckland, Raymond, "Scottish Witchcraft" (Llewellyn, 1992)
  
• Campbell, Joseph, "The Masks of God" (Penguin Books, 1982)
  
• Campbell, Joseph, "The Hero With A Thousand Faces" (Princeton University, 1968)
  
• Campanelli, Pauline, "Wheel of the Year" (Llewellyn, 1992)
  
• Carmichael, Alexander, "Carmina Gaedelica" (NY, Lindesfarne Press 1992)
  
• Chadwick, Nora, "The Celts", (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1982)
  
• Child, Francis James, "The English And Scottish Popular Ballads" (Vol 1-5) (New York: Dover, 1965)
  
• Coglan, Ronan, "A Dictionary of Irish Myth and Legend," (Dublin: 1979)
  
• Cooper, J.C., "An Illustrated Encyclopaedia Of Traditional Symbols," (New York: Thames And Hudson, 1979)
  
• Cross, Tom Peete and Clark Harris Slover, "Ancient Irish Tales" (Barnes & Noble, Totowa NJ 1988 reprint of 1936 edition)
• Cunliffe, Barry, "The Celtic World : An Illustrated History of the Celtic Race, Their Culture, Customs and Legends" (Greenwich House, NY 1986)
• Davidson, HR Ellis, "Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe : Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions" (Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 1988)
• de Santillana, Giorgio and Hertha von Dechend, "Hamlet's Mill" : An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and its Transmission Through Myth 2ed (David R. Godine, Boston 1983)
• Dillon, Myles, "Early Irish Literature" (University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1948)
• Douglas, R. McDonald, "Scottish Lore and Folklore" (NY: Crown Pub. 1982)
  
• Edwardes, Michael, "The Dark Side Of History" (NY: Stein And Day 1977)
  
• Elder, Isabel Hill, "Celt, Druid and Culdee" (London: Covenant Publishing 1962)
  
• Ford, Patrick K, "The Mabonogi and Other Welsh Medieval Tales" (University of California Press, Berkeley 1977)
• Gaer, Joseph, "The Lore of the Old Testament" (Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1951)
  
• Gantz, Jeffrey, "Early Irish Myths and Sagas" (Penguin, London 1988)
• Grant, I.F., "Highland Folk Ways" (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1980)
  
• Graves, Robert, "The White Goddess" (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giboux, 1966)
  
• Green, Miranda, "The Gods of the Celts" (Barnes & Noble, Totowa NJ 1986)
• Herity, Michael and Eogan, George, "Ireland In Prehistory" (Southampton: Camelot Press 1978)
  
• Herm, Gerhard, "The Celts" (New York: St. Martin's Press 1976)
  
• Higgins, Godfrey, "The Celtic Druids" (Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society Inc. 1977; orig. published in 1827)
  
• Hope, Murry, "Practical Celtic Magic" (England, Aquarian Press, 1987)
  
• Hutton, Ronald, "The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles" : Their Nature and Legacy (Blackwell, Oxford 1991)
• Keightley, Thomas, "The World Guide To Gnomes, Faeries, Elves and Other Little People" (New York: Avenel Books 1978) (nb: this is a reprint of "The Fairy Mythology" of 1880)
  
• Kinsella, Thomas, "The Tain" (University of Philadelphia Press, Philadelphia 1985)
• Matthews. John, "Taliesin" (London, Aquarian Press, 1991)
  
• MacCana, Proinsias, "Celtic Mythology" (London: Hamlyn House 1970)
  
• MacCrossan, Tadhg, "The Sacred Cauldron: Secrets Of The Druids" (St. Paul: Llewellyn Pub. 1991)
  
• Maclennan, Malcolm, "A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language" (Aberdeen: University Press 1979; orig. published in 1925)
  
• MacManus, Seumas, "The Story Of The Irish Race" (New York: Devin-Adair 1921)
  
• McNeill, F. Marian, "The Silver Bough" (Cannongate, Edinburgh 1989)
• Merrifield, Ralph, "The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic" (New Amsterdam Books, NY 1988)
• Moonstone, Rowan (pseud.), "The Origins of Halloween" (tract) (Colorado Springs: Cult Watch Response 1989)
  
• Nagy, Joseph Falaky, "The Wisdom of the Outlaw" : The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition (University of California Press, Berkeley 1985)
• Nisker, Wes "Scoop", "Crazy Wisdom" (Ten Speed Press, Berkely, CA 1990)
  
• Notestein, Wallace. "A History of Witchcraft in England" (NY: Russell & Russell, 1965)
  
• O Boyle, Sean, "Ogham: The Poet's Secret" (Gilbert Dalton, Dublin, 1980)
  
• O'Driscoll, Robert ed. "The Celtic Consciousness" (George Braziller, NY 1987)
• Osborne, Linda Barrett, "Song of the Harp" (NY: St Martin's Press 1976)
  
• Powell, T.G.E., "The Celts," (New York: Thames & Hudson, 1980)
  
• Piggot, Stuart, "The Druids" (New York: Praeger Pub. 1968)
  
• Rees, Alwyn and Brinley, "Celtic Heritage" (New York: Thames and Hudson 1961)
  
• Riley, Laurie, "The Harper's Handbook" (Mayapple, 1993)
  
• Rolleston, T.W., "Celtic Myths and Legends" (London: Bracken 1976)
  
• Ross, Anne, "Pagan Celtic Britain" : Studies in Iconography and Tradition (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1967)
• Ross, Anne, "The Pagan Celts" (Barnes & Noble, Totowa NJ 1986) formerly Everyday Life of the Pagan Celts
• Ross, Anne and Robins, Don, "The Life And Death Of A Druid Prince" (New York: Summit Books, 1989)
  
• Sagan, Carl and Druyan, Ann, "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (NY, Ballantine Books, 1992)
  
• Sanger, Keith and Kinnard, Allison "Tree of Strings" (Scotland: Kinmor Music, 1992)
  
• Simms, Maria Kay, "Circle of the Cosmic Muse" (Llewellyn, 1994)
  
• Sjoestedt, Marie-Louise, Gods and Heroes of the Celts (Turtle Island Foundation, Berkeley 1982)
• Skelton, Robin and Margaret Blackwood, "Earth, Air, Fire, Water" : Pre-Christian and Pagan Elements in British Songs, Rhymes and Ballads (Arkana, London 1990)
• Squire, Charles, "Celtic Myth and Legend, Poetry and Romance," (New York: Newcastle Publishing Co., Inc., 1975)
  
• Walker, Barbara G., "The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects" (NY: Harper Collins, 1988)
  
• Wedeck, H.E. and Baskin, Wade, "A Dictionary Of Pagan Religions" (New York: Philosophical Library, 1971)
  
• Wentz, W.Y. Evans, "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries" (Humanities Press 1981)
  
• Wood-Martin, W. G., "Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland" : A Folklore Sketch : A Handbook of Irish Pre-Christian Traditions (Longmans, Green & Co, London 1902) 2 vols

• Anthony, Piers, "Incarnations of Immortality" (5 vols. NY: Del Rey/Ballantine 1986)
  
• Bradley. Marion Zimmer, "The Mists of Avalon" (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982)
  
• Brunner, John, "The Traveler In Black," (NY: Ace Books 1971)
• Burroughs, William S., "The Western Lands" (NY: Viking-Penguin, 1987)
  
• Byfield, Barbara Ninde, "The Book of Weird" (fpa:"The Glass Harmonica") (Dolphin Books 1973)
  
• Heinlein, Robert, "Stranger In A Strange Land"
• Herbert, Frank, "Dune"
• Jones, Robert F., "Blood Sport" (NY: Simon & Schuster 1974)
  
• Karr, Phyllis Ann, "The King Arthur Companion" (Reston Pub. 1983)
  
• Llywelyn, Morgan, "Bard" (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984)
  
• Millman, Dan, "The Way Of The Peaceful Warrior" (H.J. Kraemer, 1984)
  
• Meyers, John Meyers, "The Harp and the Blade" (Donning, 1982)
  
• Scarborough, Elizabeth "The Songkiller Saga" (three vols: "Phantom Banjo," "Pickin' the Ballad's Bones" and "Strum Again?" (NY: Bantam-Spectra 1992)
  
• Taylor, Kenneth, "Bard" and "Bard II" (NY: Ace Fantasy 1984)
  
• Wellman, Manly Wade, "John The Balladeer" (fpa: "Who Fears The Devil?") (NY: Baen Books 1988)
  

I put this list together as a starting point for people looking for Celtic music, but not really knowing what is out there. Over time I plan to update it with new listing, biblio. details etc.

While the majority of music listed here was written with the Harp in mind, I have also included sources for other instruments to enlarge the general scope of the listing.

Have I missed something? Your favorite music book, or further details for those already listed? Please drop me a line, and I will include it in the next update of the listing.

Enjoy!

Morgana

• 100 Great Scottish Songs - Soodlums
• 100 Irish Ballads - Soodlums Vols 1, 2,
• 100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes
• 100 Essential Irish Session Tunes
• 100 Great Scottish Songs
• 100 Irish Ballads Volume 1 & 2 (book/tape)
• 1000 English Country Dance Tunes - Raven
• 40 O'Carolan Tunes foar All Harps, Slyvia Woods
• 5 Songs of Scotland, 86 songs & ballads - Silverman
• 50 Irish Harp Tunes, Sylvia Woods
• 50 Irish Fiddle Tunes - Soodlums
• 80 English Folk Songs - Sharp & Karpeles
• A Scots Fiddle Collection. Edinburgh
• A Northern Lass
• A Jacobite Legacy
• A New and Complete Collection of the Most Favorite Scots Songs.
• Airs For Pairs
• An Irish Tunebook Part One and Part Two. - Loesberg, John
• Ancient Music of Ireland,the : Bunting, Edward.(Walton's)
• Anthology of English Music Vol 1,2,3,4 : Watkins
• Blodau'r Grug, 100 Welsh Tunes, Alex Hamilton
• Bonnie Bunch of Roses, English, Scots & Irish Songs
• Breton Dance & Tune Book 100 tunes, 17 dances
• Bronson's Traditional Settings of the Child Ballads
• Cadw Twmpath, 100 more Welsh - - Robin Huw Bowen
• Cajun Dance Hall For Fiddle
• Cajun Music, a reflection of a people
• Cajun Fiddle tune book
• Caledonian Companion, the, Hardie, Alistair J.
• Cambro British Melodies, E. Jones
• Cape Breton and Scottish Violin Music, Donald Angus Beaton
• Celtic Harp Tutor Vo. 1, Van Campen
• Celtic Harper's Source Book, Cynthia Shelhart
• Celtic Harp (Easy Harp Or Piano), Loesberg
• Celtic Airs, Jigs, Hornpipes & Reels (guitar)
• Ceol Rince na hEireann, Irish dance music, Vols 1, 2 & 3
• Ceol Na Fidhle, Vol 1 , 2, 3, 4
• Christy Moore Songbook, Paperback
• Collection of Welsh Harp Airs & Folksongs
• Complete Works of O'Carolan
• Constant Lovers, the , 78 traditional English songs
• Cotswold Morris Book, Vol.1 & 2 - Mallinson
• Danny Boy (sheet music), Friuo, Deborah
• Darley & McCall Collection of Irish Music.
• Dougie McClean Songs Dougie McClean
• Duet Books for 2 or more harps,: Book 1, 2 & 3
• The English And Scottish Popular Ballads (Vol 1-5), F.J. Child
• Encyclopaedia Blowzabellica, tune and dance book
• English Popular Ballads, Walter Morris Hart
• English Dance Music - Dave Townsend
• English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes, R. Williamson
• Famous Music for the Harp, Vol.1
• Favourite Gaelic Airs for Fiddle, Accordion & Bras
• Fiddle Music of Scotland, James Hunter
• Fiddle Tunes & Irish Music for Guitar
• First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland, R.M. Levey
• First and Second Books of Irish Ballads, D. O'Keefe
• Folk Songs of Britain & Ireland - Kennedy
• Folk Dance Tunes for Folk Harp, Freeburg, Jane
• Folksongs for the Welsh (Triple Strung) Harp, Ellis Robert
• Folksongs of Britain & Ireland, Peter Kennedy
• Folksongs & Ballads Popular in Ireland, Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4
• Forbes, Watson. Scottish Fiddle Music. Book 1., W. Forbes
• Foster and Allen - The Very Best of.., 30 songs
• Gathering of the Clans Collection, B. Shears
• Gems of Scottish Song., Anon. Boston and London.
• Gie's an A, Shetland fiddle Anderson
• Great Irish Songs and Ballads
• Harding's Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances.
• Harp Key Book, the (Scottish repertoire), by Alison Kinnaird
• Harp Music(welsh) by Meinir Heulyn
• Harp of Ireland, Yeats, G.
• Harping On', Irish Traditional Music for the Harp; Kathleen Loughnane.
• Highland Harp,the; R.B. Armstrong (Mostly tt, with 8 trad. tunes incl.)
• Honey's Celtic Harp Book volume 1,2, Therese Honey
• Ireland the Songs, Vol 1, 2, 3, 4 - Soodlums
• Ireland's Best Loved Songs and Ballads
• Irish Airs for the Harp, Waltons Irish Harp Books
• Irish and Highland Harps, Armstrong, R.B.
• Irish Dance Tunes for All Harps, Slyvia Woods
• Irish Dance Tunes for all Folk Harps, by Sylvia Woods
• Irish Fiddle Book - Cranitch
• Irish Harp Book, a Tutor and Companion, Cuthbert, Sheila Larchet
• Irish Harp, the; R.B. Armstrong
• Irish Harper, the, Ni Chatasaigh, Marie
• Irish Street Ballads, Colm O Lochlainn
• Irish Tunes Arranged for Violin and Keyboard, Vol. 1, 2
• Irish Traditional Music, Session Tunes Vols 1, 2, 3 - Sullivan
• Kipper Family songbook -Since Time Immoral
• Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, Arranged by David Watkins
• Mally's Northwest Morris Book - Mallinson
• Manx Music for the Irish Harp, by Charles Guard
• March Men of Harlech (Duet) - Arranged by John Thomas
• Marshall's Scottish Melodies
• Martin Carthy, a Guitar in Folk Music, songs & tunes
• Minstrel Boy, the (Irish Melody), J.B. Chatterton
• More Irish Street Ballads, O'Lochlainn, C.
• Music for the Heather Folk, -Sue Richards (trad. Scot)
• Music by Carolan, arranged for recorder & keyboard
• Musical and Poetical Relicks, E. Jones
• Northumbrian Pipers Tunebook Vol.2
• Old English Ballads, John A. Long
• O Neills Music of Ireland 1001 Gems
• Off the Record 15 songs from Ireland (Gut or Wire strung harp), Anne Heymann
• One Hundred English Folksongs - Cecil Sharp
• Orpheus Caledonius: Or a Collection of Scots Songs.
• Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion
• Planxty Bach. A Collection of Celtic Music, M. Lawry.
• Ploughboy's Glory, the - Songs of George Butterworth
• Queen Mary's Escape from Loch Leven Castle' Arranged by David Watkins
• Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (vol 1-3), Thomas Percy
• Raven's Nest Raven's Collection of folksongs
• Ringing Strings, Shetland tuneAnderson
• Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
• Royale Harpist, the; Therese Honey
• Sain Y Werin
• Scarborough Fair (sheet music), Friuo, Deborah
• Scotland's Music, Cedric Thorpe Davie
• Scottish Traditional Songs
• Scottish Songs for Harmonica
• Scottish Songs of Robert Burns
• Secrets of the Gaelic Harp. Heymann, A.
• Simon Fraser Collection (Scot)
• The Singing Tradition Of Child's Popular Ballads, Bertrand Harris Bronson
• Skye Collection of the Best Reels and Strathspeys Extant. K.N. Macdonald
• Songs of Ireland, 97 favourites - Silverman
• Songs and Dances of Ireland
• Songs of Ireland (12 Irish Songs), Mary O'Hara
• Songs and Dances of Scotland
• Songs & Dances of England
• Songs of Ireland Book
• Songs of the Harp: 20 Songs about Harps and Harpers, by Sylvia Woods
• Songs of Scotland Book
• Songs of England Book
• Songs of England, 100 songs - Silverman
• Songs of Robert Burns
• Soodlums Irish Ballads, 158 popular songs.
• Sounding Strings. 14 British folksongs, Stevenson, Ronald
• Skye Collection, Keith Norman MacDonald.
• Taigh Na Teud, Scottish Airs for Clarsach
• Tannau'r Ddraig, Welsh music for the Celtic Harp
• Teach Yourself to Play the Folk Harp. Sylvia Woods, Woods Books, PO Box
• 29521, Los Angeles, CA 90029.
• Ted Furey Collection of Irish Traditional Tunes. Vol. 1.
• Telyn Y Werin, Vol. 1, 2
• Tewlynor Llys A Chastell
• Traditional Ballads (Compleat Anachronist), Shelley T. Rabinovitch
• Traditional Folk Songs and Ballads Vol 1, 2, 3
• Traditional Music in Ireland, OCanainn, Tomas
• Traditional Slow Airs Of Ireland, Tom Oacute
• Tribute to Moore, Waltons Irish Harp Books
• Tribute to O'Carolan, Waltons Irish Harp Books
• Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody
• Welsh Guitar (with tab notation), Michael Raven
• Welsh Harper, John Parry
• Yetties Songbook, 51 Songs - The Yetties