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04 Jan 11 - 06:41 PM (#3067326) Subject: Cataloguing Song Collections From: Naemanson As with many of you I have been collecting songs for a long time. Over the holidays I got them all corralled into binders in more or less alphabetical order. There's about 8 inches of them. I want to break them into easier to manage bundles so I am looking for the categories to use. Some are easy, Love, War, Chanties, etc. but I'm looking for more refinement than that. Any ideas? |
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04 Jan 11 - 07:26 PM (#3067353) Subject: RE: Cataloguing Song Collections From: Steve Gardham I find as a good starting point for ballad categories, Malcolm Laws 'American Ballads from British Broadsides. Developed from this are the categories on our website www.yorkshirefolksong.net |
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04 Jan 11 - 07:48 PM (#3067365) Subject: RE: Cataloguing Song Collections From: Bill D Since you are not publishing them for 'others', it is best to make a list of categories YOU think in....then add subcategories when YOU see the need. If you really want to be clever, get a relational database and make multiple entries for songs that need it.. 'Engine 143' can be in both 'death' and 'railroad'...etc... |
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04 Jan 11 - 07:55 PM (#3067374) Subject: RE: Cataloguing Song Collections From: Naemanson My major categories are LIKE and DON'T LIKE. There are not many of the latter in the collection. I am only looking for suggestions and bright ideas. Bill, you make a good point about publishing the collection. Let me be perfectly clear. You are right. I am NOT publishing this group. They all have been published many times already. This is personal use only. |
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05 Jan 11 - 09:43 AM (#3067729) Subject: RE: Cataloguing Song Collections From: Jim Carroll "This is personal use only." Lately I have been digitising hard-copy texts of songs I have accumulted over the last four/five decades, and have unearthed something in the region of five-six hundred songs. While I agree that many of them have been published elsewhere, many of the publications have been obscure magazines/journals, and many are long out of print. It seems a shame to let them ride off into the sunset when others might make use of them in the future (I caught the 'pass it on' bug at an early age) , so I have at least tried to include the minimum information - source, tune, author (where appropriate), and anything else that might be relevant. With folk songs the Roud numbering system is invaaluable in putting them in context. Jim Carroll |