Roud Folk Song Index

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"Roud number" redirects here. For a list of songs with Roud numbers, see List of folk songs by Roud number.

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000[1] references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud.[2] Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording index" compiled by Roud. It subsumes all the previous printed sources known to Francis James Child (the Child Ballads) and includes recordings from 1900 to 1975. Until early 2006, the index was available by a CD subscription; now it can be found online on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website, maintained by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS).[3] A partial list is also available at List of folk songs by Roud number.

  1. ^ Faulkner, Kate (2016). "From shoeboxes to the World Wide Web: the enthusiast as indexer". The Indexer. 34 (3): 99–103. doi:10.3828/indexer.2016.29.
  2. ^ English Folk Dance and Song Society. Archived 2012-10-31 at the Wayback Machine The EFDSS listed 187,800 records in the growing Folksong database in October 2012 (which includes all of the songs in the Broadside database with "traditional" origins).
  3. ^ "Search and browse tips". Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Archived from the original on 30 March 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.