A "new" folk and midi site...

Subject: A site with many songs and midi files
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Feb 98 - 09:08 PM

Found while surfing with a new search engine at this address (seems really nice!)

A site which seems to have been created by a Choir singer from Wisconsin (in both German & English), but which has a VERY large database of American, French, German, Scots, Irish, English, Welsh, etc. songs, along with sections of Sea songs,Hymns, Christmas songs, and a special area for the songs of Fredrich Silcher...and an amazing number of all of these have nice midis!! Really worth the visit...(it says it has only been accessed a few thousand times in many months, so maybe it is not on most of our lists...)

click here

I have put this in the links

Subject: RE: A
From: Wolfgang Hell
Date: 25 Feb 98 - 05:52 AM

Thanks, Bill.
I had once seen this site ("Rick's Harmonia page") and thought immediately it was but a mirror of the other German/English site ("4000 Volkslieder") I had entered into the links some time ago. I had a second look now and found out I was wrong. The number of identical (and identical looking; in print) songs is so high that this cannot be chance alone. But the number of songs (or midi's) only to be found on one of these two sites is also quite high, so it is really worth looking at both sites.
Wolfgang

Subject: RE: A
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Feb 98 - 10:26 AM

yes, Wolfgang...I wondered as I looked if there hadn't been some 'reciprocal' exchange of material...sort of like the 'Yet Another Digital Tradition' site...but that is between them....I suppose any new site will 'borrow' material as it grows.At least this one does seem to have some variety and shows a lot of personal work!

Subject: RE: A "new" folk and midi site...
From: Helen
Date: 25 Feb 98 - 04:45 PM

The Welsh music looked very familiar, and I think it is very similar to Barry Taylor's folk midi site,

http://www.islandnet.com/~btaylor/homepage.htm

because in the thread called Welsh songs (20th Feb) I found the midi but not the lyrics of the Maid of the Parish of Penderyn and it was the same as on this site, with layout/fonts etc which looked very very similar, like a direct copy, in fact.

I think it would be much more considerate if these sites, and the amount of work which has gone into them, were given proper recognition, if in fact the material has been copied.

Helen

Subject: RE: A
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Feb 98 - 05:42 PM

this guy has a button for 'contributors'...but it has nothing in it right now....we shall see....(I guess someone could email him and ask ...)

Subject: RE: A
From: Helen
Date: 26 Feb 98 - 02:31 AM

Ah, Bill, I see you have stepped forward to volunteer on e-mail patrol. :-) Brave lad! Good luck.

Helen