Corpora

A list of all corpora in Catafolk

List of corpora.
TitleStatusGroupsDescriptionSongs
Songs of Luxembourgalphasagrillo

A large collection of 612 folk songs from Luxembourg from various sources. The songs were encoded by Damien Sagrillo.

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Songs of Irelandalphasagrillo

A collection of 62 Irish folk songs from books by Seán O Boyle and Donal O'Sullivan, digitized by Damien Sagrillo.

62View
Pinck's Verklingende Weisenalphasagrillo

A collection of 326 folk songs from the Lorraine, published by Louis Pick between 1926 and 1939. The songs were encoded by Damien Sagrillo.

326View
The Natural History of Song Discographydraft

"NHS Discography contains transcriptions and analyses of 118 field recordings from the 30 world regions covered in NHS Ethnography. ... We selected recordings by reviewing published collections of world music, digitizing out-of-print recordings, and contacting anthropologists and ethnomusicologists to obtain unpublished field recordings. Each song was transcribed into music notation."

118View
Haydn's Original Scots Songsalphasagrillo

A selection of Scottish folk songs arranged by Joseph Haydn and published in 1792. Digital encoding by Damien Sagrillo.

51View
Digital Archive of Finnish Folk Tunesalpha

A large collection of 8613 Finnish folk tunes collected mostly in the 19th century and published by the Finnish Literary Society in the series Finnish Folk Tunes (Suomen Kansan Sävelmiä), edited by Ilmari Krohn. The collection was digitized by Tuomas Eerola and Petri Toivainen in 2004.

8613View
Essen Shanxidraftessen803View
Essen Natmindraftessen206View
Essen Handraftessen1223View
Deutscher Liederhortalphaessen

The Deutscher Liederhort is a collection of 1700 German folk songs. The songs were originally collected by Ludwig Erk and later edited by Franz Magnus Böhme. Helmuth Schaffrath digitized the songs.

1701View
Densmore's Teton Sioux Musicalphadensmore

A digital edition of 245 songs from the book Teton Sioux Music by Frances Densmore, originally published by the Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 61, Smithsonian Institution (1918). The digital edition was prepared by Craig Stuart Sapp in 2002.

246View
Densmore's Pueblo Musicbetadensmore

A collection of 82 folksongs from several Pueblo peoples: Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti and Zuni. The songs were mostly collected by Frances Densmore between 1928 and 1940 and published in her 1957 Pueblo Music. Digital encoding by Daniel and Eva Shanahan.

82View
Densmore's Papago Musicbetadensmore

A collection of songs of the Tohono Oʼodham people (formerly known as the Papago), collected by Frances Densmore in 1920–21 and published as her 1929 Papago Music. The songs were digitally encoded by Daniel Shanahan and Eva Shanahan.

169View
Densmore's Northern Ute Musicbetadensmore

A collection of songs of the Northern Ute people, collected by Frances Densmore in 1914 and 1916 and published as her Northern Ute Music in 1922. The songs were digitally encoded by Daniel Shanahan and Eva Shanahan.

115View
Densmore's Nootka and Quileute musicbetadensmore

A collection of folksongs from several First Nations. The songs were collected by Frances Densmore in 1923 and 1926 and published in her 1949 Nootka and Quileute Music. Digital encoding by Daniel and Eva Shanahan.

131View
Densmore's Menominee Musicbetadensmore

A collection of songs of the Menominee people, collected by Frances Densmore between 1925 and 1929 and published in her 1932 Menominee Music. The songs were digitally encoded by Daniel Shanahan and Eva Shanahan.

146View
Music of the Maidu Indians of Californiabetadensmore

A collection of Maidu songs recorded by Frances Densmore from performances by Pablo Sylvers and Amanda Wilson in 1937. These songs were published in Densmore's Music of the Maidu Indians of California in 1958 and encoded by Daniel and Eva Shanahan.

53View
Densmore's Choctaw Musicbetadensmore

A collection of songs of the Choctaw people, collected by Frances Densmore in 1933 and published in her 1943 Choctaw Music. The songs were digitally encoded by David Huron.

69View
Creighton's Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotiabeta

Digital edition of Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia, collected by Helen Creighton (1932). The ditigal edition was prepared by Craig Stuart Sapp in the Humdrum file format.

152View
Volksthümliche Lieder der Deutschenalphaessen

A collection of 704 German folk songs published by Franz Böhme in 1895. The songs were encoded by Helmuth Schaffrath as part of the Essen Folksong Collection.

704View
Altdeutsches Liederbuchalphaessen

A collection of 309 folk songs collected by Franz Magnus Böhme and later digitized by Helmut Schaffrath.

309View

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