Item Detail
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English Folk Dance and Song Society, Cecil Sharp House
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Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
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Website
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English
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Roud, Steve. The Roud FolkRepertory Guide--Vocal. Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/query.cgi?cross=off&index_roud=on&access=off (accessed May 22, 2014).
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Guides users to published and manuscript folk song scores and texts. After looking up the reference in the index, researchers can use the provided information to find the music and/or text of the song in a library collection.
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Includes 143,000 references to songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language.
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A database, searchable by one or multiple fields. Information fields include: song title, tune name, first line of text, source type (broadside, book, etc.), source reference, bibliography reference ID (with a link to complete bibliographic information), previous source, performer, place collected, date collected, collector, contents (text and/or music, number of verses), date added, Roud number, other number, subjects, broadside printer, broadside location, notes, Roud ID number.
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Probably the largest English-language folk Repertory Guide--Vocal in the world to date.
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Abraham Myler
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Internet
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8047