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Between 1930 and the early 1960s Flanders supervised a project to make typescript copies of many of the songs that were recorded on cylinder, disc and tape. Also added to this collection were copies of songs found in manuscript form in informants' homes and in library collections, as well as typescript copies of songs sent to the collection by respondents to newspaper editorials and advertisements Flanders wrote between 1933 and 1961 to solicit information on songs.
Musical transcriptions of songs were begun for the collection in 1930 when George Brown transcribed the songs he collected in southern Vermont. Altogether there are transcriptions of several hundred songs, including many that were published in the song collections edited by Helen Hartness Flanders between 1930 and 1965.
An index to the text files in the Flanders Ballad Collection can be locally searched by performer, title (song or tune title), classification number (Laws or Child), or keyword. |