Heritage Muse™ is an ePublishing company incorporated in New York City in March, 2002 for the express purpose of building and offering a quality digital library of literature and music for scholars and enthusiasts around the world.

The first products to be made available are the works in The Heritage Collectors™ series of digitized traditional folk music.

Founder and president David M. Kleiman has been an educator and performer in the folk music field for many years. He currently serves as the Vice President of the New York Folk Music Society and performs regularly with the folk-ensemble Water Sign.

Much of the seminal research in the folk-music field was only published in limited print runs and is long out of print. The Heritage Collectors™ digital editions, readily available at a reasonable price, are intended to bring the wealth of this material to more people. The works will once again be available to readers, singers, researchers, dancers, and revelers.

Each The Heritage Collectors™ digital edition captures the original work(s) in computer readable formats. These texts are then reformatted to match the original printings, maintaining pagination, column, and line positioning, for consistancy in academic citation. Electronic indexes, reference hyperlinks in the text, digital music files, maps and gazetteers, specialized study aids, and other multi-media features are added to every work enhancing their use by both hobbyists and scholars. See The Heritage Collectors™ Text-CD page for a complete features list.

Each package in the series contains two discs. The first CD-ROM contains the digital text and multi-media tools. The companion CD contains audio and/or video tracks of source singers, the collectors themselves, or top name contemporary interpreters performing music samples drawn from or directly related to the texts.

The Heritage Collectors™ initial series focuses on the collectors of Anglo-American folk-music and traditions. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, edited by Francis James Child and first published in the late 1800s, is the first in a planned series of 10-12 cross-indexed and linked publications. Heritage Muse™ is pleased to be making this edition available in partnership with ESPB Publishing, Ltd. L.P.