Online Resources
[This is a list of online resources - databases, catalogues, websites about artists, collections of Folksongs, broadsides and sheet music etc - that I am using regularly]
- abc notation home page (with scores and midis for countless tunes)
- allegro Catalogue Of Broadside Ballads (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
- American Memory, Performing Arts, Music: 33 collections (Library Of Congress)
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Digitale Sammlungen
- The British Newspaper Archive
- Copac National, Academic, and Specialist Library Catalogue
- DeutschesLied.com - Liedersuche
- Digital Tradition Database
- Early English Book Online (EEBO, access only through participating institutions like libraries)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO; access only through participating institutions like libraries. I have identified each quoted item with the ESTC number so it's easy to find there)
- English Broadside Ballad Archive (University of Santa Barbara, California)
- The Fiddler’s Companion. A Descriptive Index of North American,British Isles and Irish Music for the Folk Violin and other Instruments, by Andrew Kuntz
- The Full English Digital Archive (Vaughan Williams Memorial Library)
- Hathi Trust Digital Library
- IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
- Irish Music Collections Online (Na Píobairí Uilleann)
- John Jacob Niles - Dean of American Balladeers
- Jane Keefer, Folk Music - An Index To Recorded Sources
- The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection: Ozark Folksongs (Lyon College, Arkansas)
- Kenneth S. Goldstein Collection Of American Song Broadsides (Center For Popular Music)
- Kirk Collection - Commercial Sheet Music since 1865 (Indiana State University)
- The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (John Hopkins University)
- MacEdward Leach & The Songs Of Atlantic Canada (Canada's Digital Collections)
- The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
- Michael Gray (the website of well-known Dylan encyclopedist)
- Music For The Nation: American Sheet Music (Music Division, Library of Congress)
- Mudcat Discussion Board (MDB; I have learned a lot from reading all the excellent discussions there)
- Sing A Song - Celebration of Traditional Music of Ireland & Elsewhere In Print (Villanova University)
- Smithsonian Folkways
- Songs Of The West (A great website about the British Folksong collector Sabine Baring-Gould)
- Steven Roud, Folk Song Index, English Folk Dance And Song Society (Vaughn Williams Memorial Library)
- The Traditional Ballad Index. An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World
- A Traditional Music Library of folk music, tune-books, songbooks and sheet music
- The Wisconsin Folk Song Collection 1937 - 1946
- The Word On The Street (National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh)
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