See, I'm Looking for this Old Scottish Song ...

A few years ago, the National Library of Scotland ran a pilot project to start indexing Scottish songs in early printed collections.  Sadly, the test project didn't carry on to finish indexing every Scottish song in their collections, but it's still a useful resource.  (Further funding would be required to see the whole thing through.)

• Click here to access the Scottish Song Index Pilot Database.
• Introduction to the Pilot Project

We understand that the pilot database includes about 350 incipit titles and around 20,000 bibliographic title references. However, we don't know how many publications are completely listed in the pilot.

• Visit the National Library of Scotland Music Collections page here.
• Free access to the NLS Digital Gallery of music and much, much more - here.

Finding Poetry? Try PoemHunter.com

Looking for a poem?  We came across this useful website:- http://www.poemhunter.com/

There are probably lots more poetry-finding websites out there - do share them with us! 

The Music Sack

What's in the sack?  Well, this is a new resource to me. 

Here it is - http://musicsack.com/SearchTheMusicSack.cfm

The homepage says that it offers ...

1,000,000 People -- 300,000 Books and Articles -- 8,963 Bands and Groups -- 880 Cathedrals and Churches -- 11,793 concerts -- The Pianist in Concert 151,482 performances -- Theatres

What I am keen to find out is where the information came from, and whether it's ever updated.  It's compiled by Frank Greene, and there's a page giving more background - here.  Phew! There's an enormous amount of background, aims, objectives - this guy aims to index a phenomenal amount of material - and ultimately to have other people doing it too.  So that makes it a wiki of sorts.  How has he done what he's done?  Well, there's a link with the music library at the University of Toronto.  (I've been there - it's a good place.)  I'll dig deeper, and let you know!

Meanwhile - have fun exploring.