- 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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- Blackletter Ballads
This site contains 17th century, Thirty Years War and English Civil War pamphlets, news sheets and other documents in full text format. Additionally, there are articles of interest to the reenactor, transcriptions of blackletter ballads, bibliographies and links to other useful sites on the Internet.
http://www.lukehistory.com/resources/index.html
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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://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/nsa.html
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- FARNE
FARNE (Folk Archive Resource North East) is an exciting and innovative two year project bringing Northumbrian folk music to people's homes across the world. Supported by the New Opportunities Fund, FARNE is creating a new folk music archive on the Internet. Material including music manuscripts, songs, photos and sound recordings from collections across North East England will be digitised and made available on the web. From 17th century manuscripts to twentieth century sound recordings, FARNE will bring resources together and show how Northumbrian music has developed over time.
The final FARNE archive will be launched in late 2003. The FARNE team will be spending eighteen months creating content for the site and alerting you to all things weird and wonderful as they are unearthed...
http://www.folknortheast.com
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- FARNE
Folk Archive Resource North East...
http://farne.weblogger.com
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- Folk music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America
Created by Lesley Nelson, this site contains traditional music and popular songs, with lyrics, midi, tune information and history behind the folksongs and ballads. The site includes a search engine as well as songs indexed by country and theme.
http://www.contemplator.com/folk.html
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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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- 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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- Sixteenth Century Ballads; a work in progress
This site features a number of digitised broadside ballads, histories, indexes and articles, with links to similar projects. Of particular interest are the early child ballads, fifteenth century ballads, and ballads from non-English cultures.
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/ballads.html
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- Traditional Music Library
The Traditional Music Library presents sheet music, lyrics and midi files for a wide selection of traditional music. The main menu includes selections of bluegrass, Irish, cowboy and Christmas songs and tunes amongst others. The site’s ever expanding contents is currently restricted by bandwidth, but an upgraded version of the site is available for purchase.
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/
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