Roud Folk Song Index - Wikipedia 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
English Folk Dance and Song Society - Roud indexes Roud numbers: Folk song titles are highly unstable – the same song can have dozens of different, or differently spelled, titles, the same title can be used for many songs, and many are published under headings like ‘A New Song’
roud, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary Factsheet What does the noun roud mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun roud See ‘Meaning use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence This word is used in eastern English regional dialect
What is a Roud Number? - Tradfolk Steve Roud started his Roud Number Index in 1970, compiling library index cards in a shoebox His interest in indexing songs grew out of his love for pop and R’n’B records of the 1960s
AFS Fellow Steve Roud Awarded Honorary Degree by The Open University Steve Roud is best known as the creator of the Roud Indexes: an extraordinarily comprehensive record of traditional English-language folk songs from around the world Roud is a librarian, indexer and historian of folk songs, whose passion for documenting and cataloguing the genre has transformed both scholarly research and popular understanding
Roud Folk Song Index - Wikisource, the free online library 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
Using Roud Numbers - Folkopedia It is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording index" It subsumes all the previous well-known printed sources known to Francis James Child and more recent recorded audio sources from 1900 to 1975 Related songs are grouped under the same Roud number Taken from Wikipedia
List of folk songs by Roud number - Wikipedia This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website Some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner notes, as has also been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers