Comparative Arts A CyberEd Course Music Index
A sampling of music throughout the history of western civilization, starting with music from Ancient Greece, through to the 20th Century.

National Anthems

National Anthems of the World

American Folk and Traditional Music

Official U.S. State Songs and Flags
Midis, Lyrics & Flags for the 50 U.S. States

Old Time Victrola Music
All of the music samples from CDs/Tapes you will find listed on this site were recorded live from old hand crank record players with the idea of reproducing the sounds of the "good old days" exactly as they sounded then.

American Folklife Center Endangered Music Project Recordings
From the Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, and Rykodisc
Produced by Mickey Hart and Alan Jabbour

Popular Songs In American History
American Folk and Traditional Music with Lyrics, Midi Files, Tune Information and History behind the folksongs and ballads. With folksongs arranged by time period.

The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
From the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
John Avery Lomax, Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center), and his wife, Ruby Terrill Lomax, recorded approximately 25 hours of folk music from more than 300 performers. These recordings represent a broad spectrum of traditional musical styles, including ballads, blues, children's songs, cowboy songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs.

Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941.

Fort Valley State College Folk Festival
From the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia.

California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians.

The Juan B. Rael Collection
From the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado.

Canadian and Australian Folk and Traditional Music

Folk Music of Canada and Australia
Canadian an Australian Folk and Traditional Music with Lyrics, Midi Files, Tune Information and History behind the folksongs and ballads. With folksongs arranged chronologically.

The Great Canadian Tunebook

European Folk and Traditional Music

Folk Music of England
English Folk and Traditional Music with Lyrics, Midi Files, Tune Information and History behind the folksongs and ballads. With folksongs arranged chronologically.

Folk Music of Ireland
Irish Folk and Traditional Music with Lyrics, Midi Files, Tune Information and History behind the folksongs and ballads. With folksongs arranged chronologically.

Folk Music of Scotland
Scotland's Folk and Traditional Music with Lyrics, Midi Files, Tune Information and History behind the folksongs and ballads. With folksongs arranged chronologically.

Folk Music of Wales
Welsh Folk and Traditional Music with Lyrics, Midi Files, Tune Information and History behind the folksongs and ballads. With folksongs arranged chronologically.

Child Ballads in the Hunter Collection
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads compiled and edited by Francis J. Child and published in the last decade of the nineteenth century, is a standard reference for British ballads. Here are listed the versions of these so-called "Child Ballads" found in Max Hunter's collection of Ozark folk song.

Jordan O'Connell Memorial Celtic Midi Archive - Original series

Scottish-Celtic Music - Scottish Midi Music Collection
Scottish/Celtic Music - Midi Music and Lyrics

Traditional Irish Reels
Music and Notation

Traditional Irish Jigs
Music and Notation

Traditional Irish Hornpipes
Music and Notation

German Language Folksong Index - Volkslieder Verzeichnis
Chorale, Hymn, Gospel, Hunt, children - songs from German-language countries

Austrian Folksongs
Folksongs of Austria - Sorted by first line of lyric, with title in italics

Croatian Dalmation Song list
Dalmatia has a long and rich musical tradition. The music is typically Mediterranean one and often strongly resembles seaside Italian, Spanish or Portuguese music in the temperament and structure. What distinguishes it from the latter, are the solely vocally sung (a capella) songs by male five-to-eight ensemble - "klapa" - so called "klapa" songs.

Middle Eastern and Asian Folk and Traditional Music

Aabdullahs Turkish Music Page

Art of China Home Page-Chinese music
Music lovers from all over the world can enjoy beautiful Chinese music and five thousand years of Chinese culture.

Russian Midi Page

Vie^.t Ky` Midi Heaven - Vietnamese Midi Files