Songs of oral tradition in the French language
in books, reviews, manuscripts, discs, cassettes, CDs

Welcome among the popular songs of oral tradition in French collected in Brittany.

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Bogue d’or 1992 - Redon

This part of the site is interested in all the songs, collected in the oral tradition in Brittany, which have been published in written or audio form. It does not take into account the large corpus of songs recorded by collectors, but which have remained unpublished. For these, you can consult the Dastum website.

Created by volunteers, without subsidy, with free access for all, this site tries to facilitate the users’ research. Please bear in mind that it does not pretend to be exhaustive and must be considered perpetually as ‘work in progress’. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to contribute, you will be more than welcome!
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Do not hesitate to contact us for any additional research, remark, observation of error or opportunities of sources not mentioned here.

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The site in numbers

We have identified 3080 song-types in French published in Brittany from the oral tradition. These standard songs have resulted in 10836 published occurrences in 287 books or sound editions. These occurrences correspond to 7641 different versions. For 640 versions, the interpreter and the place of collection are unknown. For the others, they were collected from 1282 singers, in 498 communes by 470 collectors.

Of the 10836 occurrences of songs presented on this site, 7966 are not referenced in the Coirault catalogue, that is to say 74% and 9322 occurrences are not referenced in the Laforte catalogue, that is to say 86%. Compared to the Coirault catalogue, 2259 new songs types have been identified.

The online consultation of 366 books in PDF is proposed, as well as the possibility of listening to 1871 Mp3 files from vinyls, cassettes and CDs.
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