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Revision as of 16:27, 7 October 2017
This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number. In recent[when?] years, some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner notes, as previously has been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers. This list (like the article List of the Child Ballads) also serves as a link to articles about the songs, which may use a very different song title.
The songs are listed in the Index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject-matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads); but others have high ones.
Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist James Hogg.
The Index
The index is a database of nearly 200,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud, a former librarian in the London Borough of Croydon. The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) listed 187,800 records in the growing Folksong database as at October 2012 (which total includes all of the songs in the Broadside database that have 'traditional' origins).[1]
The purpose of the index is to give each song a unique identifying number. The numbers were assigned on a more or less arbitrary basis, and are not intended to carry any significance in themselves. However, because of the practicalities of compiling the index (building on previously published sources) it is true as a general rule that older and better-known songs tend to occupy low numbers, while songs which are obscure have higher numbers. Closely related songs are grouped under the same Roud number. If a trusted authority gives the name of a song but not the words it is assigned Roud number 000.
List
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1 to 100
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101 to 200
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201 to 300
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301 to 400
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401 to 500
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501 to 600
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601 to 800
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801 to 1000
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1001 to 2000
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2001 to 3000
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9001 to 10,000
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- 9134. "I Shall Not Be Moved"
- 9139. "Copshawholme Fair"
- 9176. "Blackberry Grove"
- 9212. "There Was an Old Woman", "Black, White, Yellow and Green"
- 9266. "Down by the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men)"
- 9595. "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away"
- 9634. "The Rising of the Moon"
- 9435. "Leaving of Liverpool"
- 9536. "Waltzing Matilda" (Banjo Paterson)
- 9598. "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond"
- 9611. "Clementine"
- 9612. "The Preacher and the Slave"
- 9618. "Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire"
- 9701. "Oh My Monkey Jacket"
- 9741. "The Three O'Donnells"
- 9742. "The Three Flowers"
- 9753. "Mursheen Durkin"
- 9833. "The Great American Bum"
- 9859. "The Runaway Train"
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14,001 to 19,000
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19,001 and above
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See also
- List of the Child Ballads
- List of Irish ballads
- Roud Folk Song Index "Roud numbers"
- Child Ballads "Child numbers"
- George Malcolm Laws "Laws numbers"
References
- ^ library.efdss.org: Search the Roud Folksong Index (English Folk Dance and Song Society)
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ Also known as "Hanged I Shall Be", "The Oxford Tragedy", "The Oxford/Wexford Girl", "Ekefield/Ickfield/Wexford Town". "The Butcher Boy" and "The Prentice Boy" Reinhard Zierke (6 October 2013). "Hanged I Shall Be / The Oxford Tragedy / The Oxford/Wexford Girl / Ekefield/Ickfield/Wexford Town / The Butcher Boy / The Prentice Boy". mainlynorfolk.info. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
- ^ [3]
- ^ Zierke, Reinhard (21 November 2015). "Felton Lonnin / The Kye Have Come Hame". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ^ Zierke, Reinhard (21 November 2015). "Here's the Tender Coming". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
External links
- Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Roud Index online searchable database
- mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/index.html Extensive list of over 2,000 folk songs with Child, Laws and Roud Index cross-references.