Mudcat Café Message

sj

User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
GUEST,Pseudonymous	How To Research the History of a Song (58* d)	RE: How To Research the History of a Song	09 Mar 20
Here are the thoughts I had jotted down, for what little they may be worth: 1 Remember songs have both tunes and words, which may have different origins. Consider features of both which may give clues about dates 2 Ask a person who sings it. Ask around. 3 Look in Child 4 Look in a book 5 Look in all your books 6 Look in all the books you can beg borrow or steal 7 Look in journals/magazines etc. Trace back references to the sources (if any) 8 Online Ask Mudcat Use other specialist web-based sources Look in JSTOR/Google Scholar etc Look in Roud online via VWML 9 Read album/CD liner notes 10 Look for mentions in contemporary sources: diaries, letters, editions of songs, manuscripts etc 11 Evaluate the sources used 12 Be prepared to encounter variant/type definitional difficulties.

Back to the Main Forum Page

By clicking on the User Name, you will requery the forum for that user. You will see everything that he or she has posted with that Mudcat name.

By clicking on the Thread Name, you will be sent to the Forum on that thread as if you selected it from the main Mudcat Forum page.
* Click on the linked number with * to view the thread split into pages (click "d" for chronologically descending).

By clicking on the Subject, you will also go to the thread as if you selected it from the original Forum page, but also go directly to that particular message.

By clicking on the Date (Posted), you will dig out every message posted that day.

Try it all, you will see.