The Full English: Digitized English Folk Manuscripts
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
There is a new digital resource for English folk manuscripts:
“The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) and its partners present the world’s largest online collection of English folk manuscripts.
“Freely explore 80,000 pages of traditional songs, dances, tunes and customs from the golden age of folk music collecting, within the manuscripts of nineteen of England’s most important late Victorian and Edwardian folk collectors, including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, Lucy Broadwood and Cecil Sharp.
“The Full English digital archive delivers the true ‘voice of the people’ through a variety of material ranging from full songs to fragments of melodies, invaluable for researchers, performers, composers and many more. It is rich in social, family and local history, and provides a snapshot of England’s cultural heritage through voices rarely published and heard before.”
The collections of 19 folk song collectors are included. The project’s archival partners are Clare College, Cambridge (GB-Cclc); The British Library (GB-Lbl); The Folklore Society Library and Archive, University College London; The Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne (AUS-PVgm), The Mitchell Library, Glasgow (GB-Gm); Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (GB-Lcs), and the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (GB-CHIhc).
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