Silkwood

The semantic web of traditional tunes

The 20th century traditional music revival in the British Isles was a complex phenomenon which involved more than just the simple rediscovery and promotion of neglected music and song.

The viewpoints of key individuals influenced the scope and direction of the revival, and shaped perceptions of the sources of the revived music and how it might be regarded and shared among people.

This is the raison d'etre of this ongoing project, started up to:
 * collect traditional tunes of Anglo-Gaelic North-American and related folk music in ABC music notation
 * store them in semantically linked and annotated web pages.

The aim of this initiative is to explore the connections between tunes that may have not known to exist.