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Fantastic Free Folk Music

By oneoverphi

Tra­di­tional Music Library is this huge repos­i­tory of folk and tra­di­tional sheet music. I found it whilst look­ing for the music to “Rolling Down to Old Maui” (by-and-by, they also have an excel­lent primer on sea shanties). Songs are catagorised in sec­tions such as:

• OLD-TIME (OLDTIMEY) MUSIC
• BLUEGRASS
• ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, MUSIC-HALL & VAUDAVILLE MUSIC
• TRADITIONAL DANCE
• BAWDY & DRINKING SONGS

They even have a sec­tion on Musi­cal Edu­ca­tion. Within it are all sorts of arti­cles on play­ing instru­ments, writ­ing songs, and musi­cal the­ory. Hell, there are even instruc­tions on mak­ing your own Span­ish gui­tar. This site is well worth a poke around, even if tra­di­tional and folk music are not up your alley.

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Tags: Archiving, History, Music Theory, Music Traditions

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2 Responses to “Fantastic Free Folk Music”

1. Brian

   April 20, 2009 at 11:38 pm

   I was born in Glas­gow and left for Aus­tralia when I was 15. My fam­ily were all very musi­cal and I started Glas­gow street songs from a young age. I am drawn to Celtic music and I sup­pose all things Celtic. I met my wife of 40 years at the Bris­bane Folk Club, where we started singing together. I devel­oped Pso­ri­atic Arthri­tis (sim­i­lar to Rheuma­tiod) and when I could no longer play gui­tar shifted to flute, which puts much less strain on the joints. If you have some obscure Celtic music I would love to hear it. I look for­ward to a con­tin­ued communication.

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2. oneoverphi

   April 21, 2009 at 9:05 pm

   Wel­come to my blog, Brian. I was raised lis­ten­ing to my father’s exten­sive folk music col­lec­tion, though only a small frac­tion was devoted to Celtic folk. No, I don’t have any obscure Celtic music, but you may want to check out here:

   http://​www​.ceo​las​.org/

   They are a pretty exten­sive resource for Celtic music on the web. They have nota­tion for hun­dreds of tra­di­tional tunes; more than enough to keep you busy. But also look to the Irish Tra­di­tional Music Archive. They have some sam­ple print mate­r­ial here which is indica­tive of what they have to offer:

   http://​www​.itma​.ie/​E​n​g​l​i​s​h​/​p​r​i​n​t​e​d​_​m​a​t​e​r​i​a​l​s​.​h​tml

   And for your lis­ten­ing plea­sure while browsing:

   http://​www​.celt​i​cra​dio​.net/

   I hope this gives you a good start­ing point. Best of luck.

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