Morris Dancing FAQs

Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads: The Oxford University Bodleian Library has holdings of over 30,000 ballads in several major collections. The original printed materials range from the 16th- to the 20th-Century. The Broadside Ballads project makes the digitised copies of the sheets and ballads available to the research community.; • Homepage: <http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm>; • Maintainer: Mike Heaney <michael.heaney@bodley.ox.ac.uk>; • Categories: Songs

Cantaria: Cantaria is a library of "bardic" over 200 folk songs, mostly from Ireland, Scotland, and England, intended to be an educational tool for propagating the living song tradition through passing on folk songs (old and new). Almost every song in the archive has an accompanying recording of the song being performed; many have sheet music and abc of the melody as well.; • Homepage: <http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/>; • Categories: Songs

Contemplations from the Marianas Trench: This is a massive collection of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and American folk music. Most of the songs have notes as to source, historical background and some have midi files of the associated tune. There also collections drawn from the Child Ballads, songs from American history, and songs of the sea, as well as a section on Turlough O'Carolan (an Irish harper and composer).; • Homepage: <http://www.contemplator.com/>; • Maintainer: Lesley Nelson <webmistress@contemplator.com>; • Categories: Songs

Folk Music: The author is an English folk music enthusiast who has put together a massive collection of lyrics, tunes, and photos of modern (circa 1970 when the recent revival began) singing groups such as the Watersons, Martin Carthy, Steeleye Span, Sandy Denny, Ashley Hutchings, and the Kipper Family. There are extensive links to similar webpages.; • Homepage: <http://www.garrygillard.net/folk/>; • Maintainer: Garry Gillard <g.gillard@murdoch.edu.au>; • Categories: Songs

Folkinfo.Org: Primarily a collection of traditional folk songs which are available in a variety of formats (abc, png, pdf and MIDI) for viewing, printing and listening to. [Actually, as I understand it, the songs are stored in the database as abc and converted on the fly to other formats.] In addition, there is a discussion forum and listings of regional folk clubs and sessions.; • Homepage: <http://www.folkinfo.org/>; • Maintainer: Jon Freeman <jon@folkinfo.org>; • Categories: Songs

Golden Hind Records: This is the homepage of Tony Barrand and John Roberts Golden Hind Records record company listing their available CDs and tapes of English folk song and carols. They have also transcribe extensive notes and lyrics.; • Home page: <http://www.sover.net/~barrand/rgh.html>; • Maintainer: Tony Barrand <barrand@adelphia.net>; • Categories: Discographies : Songs

Roots of Folk: Old English, Scots, and Irish Songs and Tunes: A massive compendium of indexes of collected songs from England, Scotland and Ireland. "Some are early versions of traditional songs, but most material is pre-folk 'popular style' (and some not 'popular'). Some pieces later became traditional, but for others only the general theme shows up in later traditional pieces." Excellent assemblage of links to other song and tune collections.; The site seems to be gone. Bruce Olson died a couple of years ago, but his family had been maintaining it in his memory. Hopefully this resource will return. I found a link to a small amount of information on the Mudcat Cafe website, including a link to an archived version of the site on the Internet Archive.; • Homepage: <http://users.erols.com/olsonw/>; • Mudcat Cafe: <http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=74172&messages=14>; • Internet Archive version: <http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://users.erols.com/olsonw/>; • Categories: Music Sources : Songs

The Copper Family: The Copper Family of Rottingdean in Sussex has roots in traditional song that are at least two hundred years old. Bob and Ron Copper came to prominence outside their immediate local environment when recordings of the duo were released during the early part of the folk revival in the 1950s and early '60s. Their harmonies, drawn directly from the influence of the English Southern Harmony style of singing, has in turn influenced groups like The Watersons and The Young Tradition, and from there, most of the modern English folk groups. This site lists recordings and Bob Copper's excellent books, and has lyrics to many of their songs.; • Song List: <http://www.thecopperfamily.com/songs/coppersongs/index.html>; • Homepage: <http://www.thecopperfamily.com/>; • Categories: Songs

The Digital Tradition: A venerable (as internet things go) database of traditional and composed folksongs. A section of the MudCat Cafe, an online journal of blues and folk music, the database has acquired a life of its own, offering user contributions from many traditions and cultures. Many of the songs include tune notation and midi files. There is also an active users forum where lyrics are discussed and exchanged.; • Home page: <http://www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm>; • Categories: Songs

The Watersons and Waterson:Carthy Website: Originally, the Watersons were siblings Norma, Michael (Mike) and Elaine (Lal) Waterson, with their second cousin John Harrison. They had a wide repertory but their abiding interest was in the songs and customs of their native East Yorkshire. They were renowned for their performances of traditional songs while retaining the freshness in the arrangement of the individual vocal lines. Today, Norma, her husband Martin Carthy, and daughter Eliza continue the tradition, both as solo performers, and together as Waterson:Carthy.; • Song List: <http://rzdspc77.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/watersons/songs/index.html>; • Homepage: <http://rzdspc77.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/watersons/>; • Maintainer: Garry Gillard <g.gillard@murdoch.edu.au>; • Categories: Discographies : Songs

Yet Another Digital Tradition Page: This is "yet another index" of the Digital Tradition Folk Music Database and is derived from the Digital Tradition. This version differs in that songs which have tunes have those tunes available as GIFs or PostScript scores. This database uses the Fall '99 version of the database and not actively updated.; • Home page: <http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/>; • Categories: Songs