Roud Folk Song Index - Similar Collections

Similar Collections

The Traditional Ballad Index at the California State University at Fresno includes Roud numbers up to number 5000 with comments on the songs, but draws on fewer sources.

The Folk Song Index is a collaborative project between the Oberlin College Library and a not-for-profit, educational organization called Sing Out!. This is an index to traditional folk songs of the world, with an emphasis on English-language songs, containing over 62,000 entries and including over 2,400 anthologies. Max Hunter's collection lists 1,600 songs, but each minor variant is given a distinct number.

James Madison Carpenter's collection has 6,200 transcriptions and 1000 recorded cylinders made between 1927 and 1955. The index gives the title, first line and the name of the source singer. When appropriate, the Child number is given. It is still a largely unexploited resource, with none of the recordings easily available.

The Essen folk song database is another collection that includes songs from non English-speaking countries, particularly Germany and China.

A similar index of Latvian folk songs and chants, the "Dainu skapis" ("The Dainas closet"), was created by Latvian scholar Krišjānis Barons at the beginning of the 20th century.