Publications
Folk Music and Ballads

Each data CD-ROM in The Heritage Collectors Library includes:

  • Complete digital text of the original works.

  • Easy navigation between books, pages, tables of contents,
    indicies, appendicies, and main text.

  • Illuminating essays by scholars in literature, music, and folklore.

  • Playable MIDI files of all music notations published in the original works.

  • New geographic gazetteer of place references from the ballad / song texts.

  • Maps showing places referred to in the ballad / song texts.

  • Accompanying standard audio CD featuring new or previously unreleased
    tracks from top name contemporary performers anchored in the music traditions.
  • Indexed by ballad / song number, title, and first line.
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  • In-context FIND and SEARCH routines:
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    FIND - any word, phrase, or partial word one occurrence at a time in any book.
    SEARCH - for a list of occurrences of any word, phrase, or partial word. This routine also allows for proximity, word stemming, "sounds like", and thesaurus searches.
  • Cut and paste text.

  • Zoomable text and images.

  • Compatible with PC, Macintosh, and most UNIX systems

  • The ability to print any ballad / song, any page, any section, any book, or the entire work.