Folktunes:External links

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• http://folkstreams.net/. "The Best of American Folklore Films"
• Folk Music Index (http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex): An Index to Recorded Sources - by Jane Keefer
  An index to more 3000 recordings, 200 books, and 4 magazines. Both titles and performers are indexed and actives links are provided for quick access to other performers and titles. Links are also provided to active publishers. The latest edition now includes all the titles in the two O'Neill collections of Irish music and Cole's 1000 Fiddle tunes. Currently the index points to some 39,000 titles, 15,000 performers, and 84,000 listings of which about 15% are cross references.
• The Fiddler's Companion (http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html) is a large, annotated index of traditonal music for the violin from North America, Ireland, Scotland and England. The index includes information regarding printed and recorded sources, descriptive information about the music and performers, history and annecdotes. Many of the tunes listed are given in abc format.
• World Music Central (http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/) is dedicated to the dissemination of world music news, information and resources. Its mission is to provide information about musicians, dancers and their national or regional cultures, to publish a series of databases of international musical instrument makers, international music and dance festivals, glossaries and many other resources; to educate a global audience about other cultures; and to to create connections among musicians, booking agents and cultural organizers around the world.
• ibiblio > Collection Index > Arts and Recreation > Music (http://ibiblio.org/collection/collection.php?second=48) | Crafts & Folk Arts (http://ibiblio.org/collection/collection.php?second=62)

Elsewhere

• The How and the Tao of Folk Music (http://howandtao.com/), a folk music instructional podcast.
• Musipedia.org (http://www.musipedia.org/), a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes.
• JC's ABC tune finder (http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/findtune.html), a tool for looking up titles an online index of ABC tunes on the Web, with online conversion to sheet music and midi files.
• Abacci Music (http://www.abacci.com/music/), "free irish, celtic and world music, midi files and tab"
• Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project (http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/), public domain and restored versions of some of the earliest audio recordings.
• Mudcat.org (http://www.mudcat.org/), the home of the Digital Traditions (DIGITRAD) folksong database. The latest (2002) edition of DIGITRAD contains lyrics, and in some cases tunes or chords, for around 9000 folk rock, folk revival, and authentic American, English, and Irish folk songs, as well as some parodies. The database may be searched online, or downloaded as a standalone application. Another portal to DIGITRAD with file formats converted to emerging standards (e.g. ABC) is available at http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/.
• The Traditional Ballad Index (http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladSearch.html) search page. Provides bibliographic information and some theoretical geneological information for many ballads in English.
• American Memory (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/) from the Library of Congress. Including many collections on folk music and folk life.
• The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection (http://www.smsu.edu/folksong/maxhunter/) is a set of about 1600 field recordings made by Max Hunter between 1956 and 1976 in the Ozark Mountain region of Missouri. The recordings are downloadable.
• Digital Archive of Finnish Folk Tunes (http://www.jyu.fi/musica/sks/index_en.html), based on the collection published by the Finnish Literary Society, called Suomen Kansan Sävelmiä.
• http://ingeb.org. A list of folksongs from all over the world
• http://www.volksmusiknet.ch/. Swiss Folkmusic
• Folk music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music) on Wikipedia.