Welcome to the 'Songs of the West' website - the successor to my 'Sabine Baring-Gould - Songs of the West' site, which it replaces.  The site is now mostly complete, though I will continue to add to it and, I hope, improve it.

The aim of the site is to publish information related to Baring-Gould's song collection as well as useful background information to put it into context.  I will adding to the selection of the songs that we have transcribed from the manuscripts.  I will also add to the other useful resources: links, indexes, articles and ... well, anything that I think is a good idea, really. But we are particularly keen to provide songs here and have recently added a collection of children's songs to the other collections in the 'Songs' section (click on the tab on the left).

There are also a number of songs from the Baring-Gould collection on our own website www.martinandshan.net which covers our singing activities. Do head over there and browse through some of the songs over there as well.

I have also added a copy of the article that I wrote for Folk Music journal - 'Through Devon by Dogcart and Bicycle'. This article explores the working relationship between Baring-Gould and Cecil Sharp between 1904 and 1917. Surprisingly it is the first study of Baring-Gould's work that has appeared in the FMJ or its predecessors. There will be more!

I always welcome your feedback - please tell me what you think.  Tell me what works for you but also tell me about the things that don't work.  You can send me a message using  this link. And please feel free to scribble something in the Guest Book.

And do enjoy your visit!

Martin Graebe
                           

6th Jan 2010