Tiroler Volksliedwerk

From the website: The Tyrolean Folk Song Archive in Innsbruck (Tyrol/Austria), which first opened in 1905, is a central facility for musical folk culture in Tyrol (North, East and South Tyrol). After an eventful history, it is now part of the Tyrolean State Museums. The Folk Song Archive has been collecting, researching and documenting folk songs, folk music, folk dances and folk poetry for almost 120 years. The collections comprise about 70,000 individual items relating to Tyrol’s folk music tradition and are being constantly added to: * Secular songs, yodels and Schnaderhüpfel (nonsense or mocking verses) * Spiritual songs for church, the home and traditional customs * Instrumental pieces and dances * Rhymes and sayings (e.g. inscriptions for the home and grave), children’s games, folk plays and dialect poetry In the archive we have sound recordings, song texts and sheet music from oral and handwritten sources from the 17th century to the present day. Our library with its audio section also has printed songbooks, pamphlets, sheet music, specialised literature, magazines and sound carriers (CDs, LPs, etc). Our archive is open to everyone interested in folk songs and folk music – from singers and musicians to scholars and people who simply like to listen. We are continually working to make these valuable materials more accessible to the public. You can search and order songs, pieces of music and specialised literature from the Tyrolean and all the other Austrian Folk Song Archives, also via our online database: www.volksmusikdatenbank.at. CDs with music from Tyrolean regions Mainly through the field work we have conducted in various regions of Tyrol during the last few decades, we have been able to produce several CDs with songs and instrumental pieces recorded locally.