 | | Home : Music : Folk : Academic Institutions, Archives & Libraries | | LINKS: |  | - 1. The Charles Parker Archive
Recordings, books and papers of Charles Parker, BBC Radio Producer(1919-1980), with much on traditional singers and songs; the folk revival etc.
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=2052&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=12447
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- American Memory/Library of Congress.
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site includes a massive collection of traditional music recordings, song manuscripts and musical scores. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. These included photographs, sound recordings, maps and much more. The site is also crammed full of learning packages
http://memory.loc.gov/
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- Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
Running since 1995, the Allegro catalogue of ballads is a digitised version of the Bodleian Library's massive collection of broadside ballads. The library has over 30,000 ballads in their collections with material ranging from the 16th to the 20th century. The integrated catalogue is now online, and the Web interface allows searches for, inter alia, song sheets, ballads or illustrations. Each ballad in the collections is indexed by title, first line, and subject. An index of names holds entries for all authors and performers named on the ballad broadsides. The catalogue records describe each ballad broadside, noting whether it is illustrated, showing the full imprint statement (where given) and listing each separate ballad on the sheet. The names of authors, performers and publishers are also indexed, and there is an index of ballad subjects ranging from the general ('Wedding'), through political topics of the day ('Jacobite Rebellion, 1715') to named persons ('Calvin, John').
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/
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- British Library Sound Archive
The National Sound Archive holds over a million discs, 185,000 tapes, and many other sound and video recordings. The collections come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound from music, drama and literature, to oral history and wildlife sounds. They range from cylinders made in the late 19th century to the latest CD, DVD and minidisc recordings. The archive has a range of traditional music recordings from the U.K., Europe and other continents. They keep copies of commercial recordings issued in the United Kingdom, together with selected commercial recordings from overseas, radio broadcasts and many privately-made recordings. The archive’s catalogue CADENSA provides an online index this massive collection.
http://sounds.bl.uk/
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- Country Dance and Song Society Library and Archives.
The CDSS Library and Archives is a collection of dance, tune and song books, recordings, manuscripts, microfiche records and archival material dating from the Society's founding. It is part of the New Hampshire Collection of Traditional Music & Dance of the University of New Hampshire Library, Milne Special Collections and Archives at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, where it is available to researchers. The site also includes an amazing collection of online dance manuals available as full text documents!
http://www.cdss.org/
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- Elphinstone Institute
The Elphinstone Institute is an initiative on the part of the University of Aberdeen to introduce the study of human traditions into its research portfolio, especially the traditions of the North and North-East Scotland. Take a look at the site to find out more about the Institute's areas of research and its work amongst the community.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/
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- Folk and Traditional Music, BMus Honours - Newcastle University Pages
This is the first degree programme in folk and traditional music to be offered in England and Wales. The course explores the specific area of folk music mainly through practical work and aims to develop your practical skills to a high professional level, as well as relating folk music to other music styles and placing it in historical and cultural context.
http://www.ncl.ac.uk
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- Folk and Traditional Music, BMus Honours - The Sage Gateshead
A four year programme leading to a Bachelor of Music degree, developed by the University of Newcastle Music Department, in association with Folkworks.
The programme is designed and delivered by a core team that has vast experience as performers, composers and musicologists of international standing with a proven ability in teaching.
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/undergraduate/course/W340
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- Indiana University Music Library
RISM A/II (International Inventory of Musical Sources: Music Manuscripts after 1600) is now available on the Web through the library's LibFind databases page and lists over 380,000 works by over 18,000 composers in over 595 libraries and archives in 31 countries. The music manuscript database is linked to three other databases providing additional information on specific content such as composer as well as citing other references and sources of information for the manuscripts.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/muslib.html
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- Irish Traditional Music Archive
The Irish Traditional Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource centre for the traditional song, music and dance of Ireland. It is a public not-for-profit facility which promotes public education in Irish traditional music through its own activities and its support for the activities of others.
http://www.itma.ie
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- National Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language
The National Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language (formerly known as CECTAL) houses one of the most internationally famous repositories of folklore and folk tradition materials. The Library contains approximately 40,000 books and periodicals, while the Centre's archives (The Archives of Cultural Tradition) include some 1,000 research projects and theses, 2,800 audiotapes and 230 videotapes, a film and photographic collection and a large collection of manuscript items.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/natcect/archive
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- National Library of Canada – Digital Library
Through its main website, the NLC provides access to an extensive range of digital cultural content, including digital products such as the "Digital Library of Canada", which features specialized content dealing with music, literature and history. Of particular interest to us here at FARNE central is the Virtual Gramophone, an online database including an extensive range of Canadian sound recordings. We particularly enjoyed the Alfred Montmarquette accordeon selection and can recomend the Alfred Pigeon recordings as a particularly fine indication of the wealth of material available. The site is very easy to use with clear design intentions. The NLC launched its first online exhibit in 1995. According to the NLC, traffic volume on its website is now in the range of 17 million "hits" per month. The primary objective underlying the development of the NLC's digital products is to provide universal access to Canadian cultural information (held not only by the Library, but other heritage institutions as well) free of charge to support e-learning by Canadians of all ages in both official languages. In addition, the NLC has steadily worked along with others to construct a coherent, large-scale and long-term Canadian digital library. We can only hope that the FARNE website can match this resource in both design and quality of content.
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/
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- Plymouth Song Index
Run by Plymouth Library Servies Online this database contains an index of over 60,000 song titles in nearly 2000 tune books held by Plymouth Libraries – if only more libraries would follow their lead!
http://www.webopac.plymouth.gov.uk/
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- School of Scottish Studies - Pearl Project
The Pearl Project is a pilot site aimed at providing access to the School of Scottish Studies extensive audio archive. The site contains a number of aural history recordings, with transcriptions from Gaelic, a limited amount of traditional music and a small gallery of photographs. Hopefully the site will expand as the project progresses.
http://www.pearl.arts.ed.ac.uk/index.html
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- Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) was founded on the bequests of song collectors Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Over the years the library has gathered literature, sound and manuscript collections from other eminent folklorists and collectors of the twentieth century and now boasts one of the best traditional music collections in Britain. Access to the material is free to member of the EFDSS, who fund and maintain the library, whilst non-members are charged a daily fee.
http://www.efdss.org/library.htm
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- Village Music Project - Salford University
The Village Music Project is a mammoth study of the traditional social dance music of England - where it came from, where it went to, who it travelled with and where it is now. The project is cataloguing, transcribing and publishing manuscript material and sound recordings, many of which will be made available via the internet. A number of indexes and ABC files of the collections are currently available on their site which will no doubt expand as the project progresses.
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk
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- Web-Wide ABC Index
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This site lists of all abc tune collections on the web. A simple way of using the index is to search through the tune names using your favourite web browsers search facility. You can click on the file code to take you straight to the desired file. Alternatively you can download the thematic index and use the tools provided by indexabc to search for tunes beginning with a certain sequence of notes. You can also email the creators of the site if you would like a collection that you know of to included in the index.
http://www.walshaw.plus.com/abc/index/wwabc.html
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- Yorkshire Garland Group
To make Yorkshire’s Folk Song Heritage as widely and as readily available to the General Public as current technology and copyright considerations permit, and at no charge. Includes songs to download
http://www.yorkshirefolksong.net
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