Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Sep 06 - 05:31 PM

Here's an online resource to add:
DAS SCHÖNSTE LAND: Historische Lieder aus dem deutschen Südwesten (The Most Beautiful Land: Historical Songs from the German Southwest). The entire songbook is available for download as a PDF file here (click) (60 Seiten, 2,8 MB)
The book includes lyrics and music. Auf Deutsch, natürlich.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: open mike
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 09:04 PM

I would like to include these three magazines in the list
of musical resources:

Sing Out! magazine is published by the same people who put
out the song book Rise Up Singing. www.singout.org is also
the home of the Sing Out! Resource Center in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania. It houses a collection of folk music recordings,
photos, books, periodicals and much more collected over the
last 50 years. Sing Out!'s mission is to preserve and support
the cultural diversity and heritage of all traditional and contemporary folk musics, and to encourage making folk music
a part of our everyday lives.

Another great magazine is Dirty Linen. Dirty Linen is the
bi-monthly magazine of folk and world music.Want to see?
go to: www.dirtylinen.com/ They say: Accept no imitation!
Click on the fiddle head for guaranteed quality! (their logo)


No Depression is a the bimonthly magazine surveying the past, present, and future of American music. It was launched in September 1995 as a quarterly publication and became bimonthly in September 1996. The name refers to the 1930s Carter Family song "No Depression In Heaven" see: http://www.nodepression.net/

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 02:40 AM

from Masato:

These ballad books are online at Internet Archive: Text Archive.

English And Scottish Popular Ballads, ed. George Lyman Kittredge (abridged one-volume ed.)

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (parts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9), ed. Francis James Child.

The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, Volumes I & V, ed. Francis James Child (Folklore Press reprint editions, 1956)

English and Scottish Ballads, 8 vols., ed. Francis James Child (1860 edition)

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 3 vols. (MDCCXCIV and MDCCCXXXIX editions) - Thomas Percy

Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript : Ballads and Romances, 3 vols. (1867-68) ["Loose and Humorous Songs" is not available]

Popular Ballads and Songs, 2 vols. - Robert Jamieson

Minstrelsy : Ancient and Modern (1827) - William Motherwell

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, by Sir Walter Scott, 4 vols., edited by T.F. Henderson (1902)

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: IanC
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 07:30 AM

Thanks, Joe. I'll get round to sorting out the references when I get the chance. Time seems to be difficult to find at the moment.

There are actually quite a few books online now (for example Andrew Lang's Folk Songs) and I really ought to go searching for what is available and add them to the listings.

So keep the references coming.

:-)

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 12:11 AM

Masato posted a link to this online book:
Sea songs and ballads (1906)

Author: Stone, Christopher, 1882-1965

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The sea song book is just the tip of the iceberg, if you will. archive.org is a huge collection of books, movies, sound files, and whatnot - all available for free download. A search for Ballads and Songs will give you an idea - even Brewster's Ballads and Songs of Indiana is available for download.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 09:12 PM

Basic to African-American religious song:
J. B. T. Marsh, 1880's, "The Story of the Jubilee Singers; with Their Songs." Some 128 scores and texts in 1880's or later editions (early ones have fewer songs).

Basic to Children's Games:
Gomme, Alice B., 1894, 1898, "The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland," two volumes, 531pp. Thames & Hudson reprint of 1984 bound in one volume. Many variants.

Frank C. Brown, "Folklore of North Carolina," no longer on line.

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Mar 07 - 03:05 AM

The complete texts of a number of Lomax books are available at www.traditionalmusic.co.uk (click).

American Ballads & Folk Songs by John Lomax	Complete book
Our Singing Country by John Lomax	Complete book
Songs of the Cattle Trail & Cow Camp by John Lomax	Complete book
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Lomax	Complete book

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: MartinRyan
Date: 15 Mar 07 - 06:08 AM

That looks an interesting site, Joe - if somewhat awkwardly organised!

Regards

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 06:03 AM

Amendment to Bibliography thread:

Packie Manus Byrne
Recollections of a Donegal Man
ed. Stephen Jones
pub. 1989 Roger Millington (Lampeter)
ISBN 0 9514764 0 8

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 06:09 AM

Note this Folk Music Bibliography thread.

-prepared by Susanne(SKW)-

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 10:17 PM

Wow, great work, Susanne and Joe!!!

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 05 Jul 07 - 03:22 AM

Susanne (skw) bibliography

Folklorerezeption in der Gegenwart : Probleme des Folklorismus in den slawischen und baltischen Literaturen; wissenschaftliche Konferenz der Forschungsgruppe Russische und Sowjetische Literatur und Folklore, 25. und 26. Oktober 1989 / Klagge, Ingetraut
   Rostock : [University], 19XX

Vol. 1. 1990 (Rostocker Forschungen zur Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft ; 7)
Vol. 2. 1990 (Rostocker Forschungen zur Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft ; 8)

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 05 Jul 07 - 03:54 AM

susanne (skw) Bibliography

Bobran, Anne-Katrin:
Die Gedanken sind frei oder Die Partei, die Partei, die hat immer recht? : Theoretische Ansätze der Volksliedforschung in der DDR / Anne-Katrin Bobran
Freiburg im Breisgau, Univ., Diss., 1991

Land without nightingales : music in the making of German-America ; [...Centennial conference in April 1992 that celebrated the 100. anniversary of the founding ot the University of Chicago ...] / Ed. by Philip V. Bohlman ...
Bohlman, Philip Vilas *1952-*
University of Illinois
Centennial conference ; (Chicago) : 1992.04.
   Madison, WI : Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2002
XIX, 301 S. : Ill., Noten. ; 1 CD (12 cm)
(Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-293) and index
ISBN:         0-924119-04-7

Breuer, Hans:
Der Zupfgeigenhansl : das Liederbuch der Wandervögel / hrsg. von Hans Breuer unter Mitw. vieler Wandervögel
4. Aufl. - 26. - 29. Tsd. - Reprint d. 10. Aufl., Leipzig 1913
   Mainz : Schott
   München : Piper, 1994
227 S. : Ill., überwiegend Noten
(Serie Piper ; 8219)
ISBN:         3-7957-8219-8 ; 3-492-18219-4

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 07:26 AM

Characters: Western (ISO-8859-1)

missing dates in Susanne's bibliography (German books)

Publisher "Pläne" [passim] at Dortmund

Das schönste Land
aut.: Roland, Wolf
publ.: Villingen-Schwenningen : Neckar-Verl., 2001

Alte niederdeutsche Volkslieder
publ: Münster : Aschendorff, 1960

Das kleine dicke Liederbuch
publ.: Schlüchtern : Haeseler und Buhmann

Erk/Boehme: Deutscher Liederhort [Repr.]
publ.: Hildesheim : Olms
publ.: Wiesbaden : Breitkopf & Härtel

Klusen: Deutsche Lieder
publ.: Frankfurt a. M. [u.a.] : Insel-Verl.

Otto/König: Ich hatt' einen Kameraden
publ.: [Regensburg] : ConBrio-Verl.-Ges.

Uns geht die Sonne nicht unter
publ.: Köln : Tonger, 1934
publ.: Köln : Westdt. Jugendverl. Mell, 1940

Stern: Lieder gegen den Tritt
publ.: Oberhausen : Asso-Verl. Althoff, 1974
[I only have the catalogues, the publisher's name varies: Asso, Asso-Verl., Althoff in different libraries. Librarian's faults?]

Arnim/Brentano: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
vols.: 3
publ.: Stuttgart : Reclam, 2006

Yeo: Eduard Baumstark ...
publ.: Köln : Dohr
ISBN 3-15-030034-7

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 02:24 PM

from Diane Easby:

Packie Manus Byrne
Recollections of a Donegal Man
ed. Stephen Jones
pub. 1989 Roger Millington
ISBN 0 9514764 0 8

Fred McCormick says:

Mike Brocken's Some Other Guys isn't about folk music. It's Mike's MA thesis, which was on cover versions of Beatles songs

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 09 Jul 07 - 08:21 AM

Scotland:

Graham, George Farquhar:
The Songs of Scotland : adapted to their appropriate volumes ; arranged with pianoforte accompaniments by G. F. Graham, .... - Vols. 1 - 3
   Edinburg : Wood & Co., [1848 - 1853]

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 04:34 PM

Online lyrics: Bluegrass Songbook - an expansion of the well-known lyrics collection of Motoya Kitagawa.

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: sian, west wales
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 08:34 AM

Three new (and new-ish) books from Wales which might be of interest to some:

THOMAS, Wyn, "Cerddoriaeth Draddodiadol yng Nghymru: Llyfryddiaeth / Traditional Music in Wales: Bibliography", (Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, Third edition: August 2006), ISBN 1-84527-080-0, a bilingual publication with sections broken down into
Main Printed Collections
Research Publications
Research Dissertations.
14.50 UK pounds

HARPER, Sally and THOMAS, Wyn (eds), "Cynheiliaid y Ga^n / Bearers of Song", (Cardiff: University of Wales Press), ISBN 978-0-7083-2081-5, a bilingual collection of essays in honour of Phyllis Kinney and Meredydd Evans;
Part 1 being 3 'tribute' poems,
Part 2 Articles: "Chasing Fragments: Iolo, Ritson and Robin Hood" (Mary-ann Constantine), "Aelwyd Angharad: The Historical Context" (Hywel Teifi Edwards), "The Best Composer: Ieuan Gwyllt and the Welsh Melody" (Rhidian Griffiths), "Music in the Commonplace Book of Phillip Powell of Brecon c. 1630 - 35" (Sally Harper), "Dressing Women in Tunes" (Daniel Huws), "On the Trail of the First Literary Volume Publishd in Welsh by a Woman" (Rhiannon Ifans), "Ffarwel i Aberystwyth: Jennie Williams and the World of Welsh Folk Song" (Wyn Thomas)
Part 3: Bibliographies
45.00 UK pounds (yikes)

HARPER, Sally, "Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650: A Study of Principal Sources" (Ashgate Publishing - ashgate.com, 2007), ISBN 978-0-7546-5263-2, a book deserving a much better title as it is a very 'accessible' read covering

Part I: The Sources and Practice of Medieval Cerdd Dant
Cerdd Dant: A Welsh BArdic Craft in Context
Mastering the Bardic Crafts: Oral and Written Sources
Harp and Crwth in Early Medieval Wales
The Players of Cerdd Dant and their Social Code
Gathering the Documentation of Cerdd Dant
The Historical and Theoretical Sources of Cerdd Dant
The Robert ap Huw Manuscript and Other Welsh Tablature

Part II: The Latin Liturgy, its Chant and Embellishment
Sources for the Medieval Welsh Liturgy: An Overview
The Early Welsh 'Clas' Institutions
Anglo-Norman Liturgical Reform
Shaping a New Liturgy: The Adoption of Sarum Use in Wales
Sources with Music I: The Penpont Antiphoner
Sources with Music II: The Bangor Pontifical
Late Medieval Evidence I: The Institutions
Late Medieval Evidence II: Musical Practice

Part III: Welsh Music in an English Milieu c. 1550-1650
Mirroring England: Cultural Imitation and Infiltration
Domestic and Popular Music making I: The Context
Domestic and Popular Music making II: The Repertory
A Welsh Translation of John Case's 'Apologia Musices'
The Post Reformation Church I: Parish and People
The Post Reformation Churth II: Cathedral and Household Chapel

Oh. Price: 60.00 UK pounds (double yikes - glad I got a reviewer's copy!)

sian, west wales

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 01:48 AM

Lucky you

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 02:00 PM

Here's an online resource that shouldn't be missed: Digital Library of Appalachia. Check under "music" for a huge collection of MP3 recordings of traditional music.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 04:58 PM

You might add to the list:
Dear Far Voiced Veteran - Essays in honour of Tom Munnelly Ed. Anne Clune, (mainly Ireland & UK) Pub. Old Kilfarboy Society 2007 (available from OAC website).
The Glenbuchat Ballads. Eds David Buchan and James Moreira, (Scotland) University Press of Mississippi 2007
A History of Europesn Folk Music, Jan Ling, University of Rochester Press
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: GUEST,bigJ
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 05:28 PM

Joe,
I just tried to access the Digital Appalachia sound files. I get Realplayer then a message saying "Realplayer requires additional components to play this presntation. Please wait while the software update is located"
Then there's a message: "There is no software update available from Real to support this content"

Has anyone else had this problem or am I just being stupid (nothing unusual)?

---

Hi, BigJ. You may want to use Windows Media Player of Quicktime to play MP3 files, since RealPlayer has significant limitations. See my more-detailed answer in this thread (click).
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: masato sakurai
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 08:01 PM

Gordon's work in the post above (Date: 17 Jan 04 - 02:45 AM) is an LP with liner notes. The book by Gordon is:

Robert Winslow Gordon, Folk-Songs of America (New York: National Service Bureau [Publication No. 73-s], Dec. 1938, 4+110 pages).

Mimeographed, and without tunes.

Subject: RE: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 May 08 - 03:39 AM

Here's an interesting online collection of songbooks:
http://www.folklore.ms/index.htm - The John Patrick Collection

Subject: RE: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 01:52 PM

Take a look at this Reference List on Canadian Folk Music
.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Newport Boy
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 03:19 PM

Joe - There's a little typo in the Countries/England section:

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, RALPH and LLOYD, A. L. "The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs" (Penguin, 1975)
Originally published in 1959, reprinted 1968 and 1875. A lovely collection of English songs, all of which are in the Digital Tradition database and a mudcat thread HERE.

Phil

Subject: RE: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Nov 09 - 10:43 PM

I think that perhaps the most interesting and valuable collection of folk songs published in the United States is the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore (7 volumes, Duke University Press, 1952-1964). I would think it would still be under copyright protection, but I've discovered it's available for download at archive.org
I guess that means I should sell my extra set cheap....
Wunderbar!!

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: sian, west wales
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 05:45 PM

I posted this in the Welsh Music thread but details also belong here:

"Welsh Traditional Music" by Phyllis Kinney,

Published this month, this is the first book on the subject in English since the 1930s. Here are the details from the publisher:

£24.99 | HB| 9780708323571 | 246x189 mm

Includes musical examples

"A handsomely illustrated volume tracing the emergence of Welsh traditional music through the ages, complemented with musical examples."

Written by an acknowledged authority in the field.

Enables non-Welsh speakers to access the rich traditional musical heritage of Wales.
Provides a historical and social framework/context for the genre.
Written to appeal to both general and specialist readerships.
Includes over 200 musical examples.

Author Details:

Phyllis Kinney is an acknowledged authority on Welsh traditional music. She has both performed and published extensively in the field of welsh traditional music.

UK Distribution (ex Wales):

NBN International| [e-mail]| Tel: [phone]| Fax: [phone]

Wales Distribution:
Welsh Books Council| [e-mail]| Tel: [phone] | Fax: [phone]

University of Wales Press
10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff, CF10 4UP
Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone]

www.uwp.co.uk

Chpt
1, The Oral Tradition
2, The Watershed
3, Manuscript to Print
4, Edward Jones and Traditional Airs
5, Seasonal Festivities
6, Carols, Ballads and the Anterliwt
7, The Early Collectors: Iolo Morganwg and Ifor Ceri
8, The Great Change
9, The Momentum Continues
10,J. Lloyd Williams and the Welsh Folk-Song Society
Appendix 1: Cerdd Dant         
Appendix 2: Printed Music Collections by publication date         



sian

Subject: RE: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 May 11 - 10:30 PM

Here are two online books of songs collected by the Federal Writers Project in Nebraska, titled Farmers' Alliance Songs of the 1890's and More Farmers' Alliance Songs of the 1890's:

http://www.lincolnlibraries.org/depts/hr/wpa/NM_pdf/Farmers1.pdf

Also take a look at:

http://www.lincolnlibraries.org/depts/hr/wpa/NM_pdf/Farmers2.pdf

Also one titled Cowboy Songs
http://www.lincolnlibraries.org/depts/HR/wpa/NM_pdf/Cowboys.pdf

Subject: RE: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 15 May 11 - 04:58 AM

Hi Joe,

thanks for refreshing the thread, especially with these refreshing cowboy songs I like to sing.

Wilfried

Subject: RE: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Sep 18 - 02:22 AM

This thread hasn't been refreshed since 2011. There must be some books to add to the Basic Folk Library.

Subject: RE: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 09 Sep 18 - 02:48 AM

Schreffler, Gibb. Boxing the Compass: a Century and a Half of Discourse About Sailor's Chanties. Loomis House Press, 2018. ISBN 9781935243816

If anyone is considering collecting Chantey/Shanty books, the place to start is this book by mudcat's own Gibb Sahib.

It discusses all the important books on the subject; plus a few not-so-important ones. Of course, some of us will want them all but, if you are more judicious, this will help you sort the wheat from the chaff.

It's a very good read in itself, too!

Subject: RE: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 09 Sep 18 - 04:20 AM

A couple of important English fiddler's tune books:

Bartram, Chris & Wilson, Paul (eds). The William Andrews Tunebook: a Dartmoor Fiddler. Okehampton: The Wren Trust, 1999. ISBN 0951626434

Woolfe, Geoff (ed). William Winter's Quantocks Tune Book: Country Dance and Popular Tunes from the Maunscript of a Nineteenth Century Somerset Village Shoemaker. Crowcombe: Halsway Manor Society, 2007. ISBN 9780955639708.

The latter is still available from Halsway Manor.


I'm surprised that this isn't already here:

Karpeles, Maud (ed). Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs. London: Oxford University Press, 1974. 2 volumes: Vol 1 xxi, 751 pp. Vol 2 xv, 661 pp. Words and music for 413 songs.



Might be worth noting, too, that Bronson's Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads has been republished by Loomis House Press and can be acquired quite cheaply on the internet. Here in the UK, it's printed "on demand" by Lightning Source so it's hard to say how long the binding will last but it is a cheap way of acquiring a set until you can find the original at an affordable price.

Subject: RE: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: GUEST,Harry
Date: 10 Sep 18 - 01:48 AM

Dare I suggest . . . . . ????

Roud, Steve. Folk Song in England. London: Faber & Faber, 2017 ISBN 9780571309719

Reviews cited by Amazon:

[A] monumental history of the English folk song. (Kathryn Hughes Guardian)

A remarkably interesting study of this lesser known corner of England's past. He is perhaps the best person to do so, as the creator of the Roud Folk Song Index and an expert on folklore and superstition . . . Roud has done an admirable job pulling together an insightful history - especially considering the difficulty of finding sources for long forgotten social history. Society's elites have no place in this book, in this record of ordinary people, through the unusual prism of folk music. That alone is to be lauded. (Big Issue)

A fascinating tour d'horizon of folk song in all its multifarious contexts . . . Celebrates the sustaining power of song for all those who were making gloves, plaiting straw, picking hops, breaking stones or fighting in the muddy, bloody trenches of Flanders. (Economist)

Roud plots a clear narrative from before the Civil War through to the twentieth century . . . His keen eye for accuracy means the book maintains an impressively clear head throughout . . . The book's welcome sense of humour and clarity means it can be read on several different levels - offering profiles and overviews woven in with enough detail to please the most ardent song collector. After a while, although the title Folk Song in England originally sounds quite lofty, it begins to seem rather modest. There's a whole world in here. (Tessa Norton Wire)

Steve Roud's stunning new tome is a serious and in-depth investigation into our sceptred isle's folk music history; a history filled with mystery, gaps and a million lost songs. Painstakingly researched and handsomely presented, Folk Song in England not only tells the story of the folk music tradition but provides context for the wider social history that provided the backdrop to its development . . . Folklorist Roud clearly knows his stuff and loves his subject, and has cast his net wide in order to provide this definitive history. (Loud & Quiet)

The plain truth is that there won't be a better or more important book about English folk song in any of our lifetimes. (Stephen Hunt fRoots)

Subject: RE: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: Stewie
Date: 10 Sep 18 - 09:09 PM

There is an updated and expanded edition of Bill C. Malone's classic tome on
country music.

Click

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
From: sciencegeek
Date: 26 Sep 20 - 06:15 AM

here is a link to Richard Runciman Terry's 200 Folk Carols

https://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Images/Terry_200_Folk_Carols/two_hundred_folk_carols.htm

social distancing and caroling will be quite challenging this winter