Song
Category Editor: Dr Vic Gammon
There are many thousands of songs. There are many song collections and many versions of the same song. Where to start looking? That's the problem.
Note. Our intention is not to restrict this initiative to English Song, but to use the present headings as a starting point to view whatever develops from wherever it comes.
Indexes
- The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library online index including
- Sharp
- Vaughan-Williams
- Karpeles
- Broadwood
- Hammond
- Collinson
- Gardiner
- Grainger
The site also gives you access to the Roud Index, compiled by Steve Roud.
'The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of 143,000+ references to songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.'
Traditional Singers
Books
Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry is described in Wikipedia See
The contents might well be catalogued here but in the meantime here's one song to be going on with - The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
Old English Popular Music by William Chappell Ed. H.E.Wooldridge Additions by Frank Kidson
Recordings
Commercially Available Recordings
Currently available or deleted