What’s new?

Cards
For each song-type, an interactive map allows you to visualize the geographical distribution of versions in Brittany.

Additions
The 126 songs of the book DUPLESSIX Angélina, Chansons et contes de Haute-Bretagne - Une transmission orale au cœur de la bourgeoisie rennaise - XIXe - XXe siècles, published by Dastum and the Presses Universitaires de Rennes in 2015, have been indexed. Thanks to Yves-Roger LE BORGNE who contributed to this analysis.

The addition of these songs has led to the identification of 51 new songs-types (from B-02810 to B- 02860). Among these new songs, about thirty concern short songs.

The Oral Tradition catalogue in French lists 9530 occurrences of songs.

Additions
The 295 songs of the book POULAIN Albert, Carnets de route - Chansons traditionnelles de Haute-Bretagne published by Dastum in 2001 have been indexed. Thanks to Yves-Roger LE BORGNE who contributed to this analysis.

The addition of these songs has made it possible to identify 19 Coirault references, not yet listed in Breton publications. Thirty-seven new songs-types have also been added (between B-02724 and B-02780).

Addition also of the ten songs in French from the book BULÉON Mathurin, Traditional Songs of the Vannes Country (Early 20th Century) published by Dastum Bro Ereg and the Departmental Archives of Morbihan in 2012.

The website on oral tradition in French lists 9348 occurrences of songs.

Photos of Authors (9), Collectors (12) and Performers (38) have been added.

Additions
Listening to the 3 CDs of song evenings published by De Ouip en Ouap between 2009 and 2019. 98 songs are available. Thanks to De Ouip en Ouap who authorized the online release of these CDs and to Yves-Roger LE BORGNE who analyzed them.

A total of 1856 songs can be listened to on the site.

Improvements
References between the different parts of the site (Broadsheets, Oral Tradition in Breton and Oral Tradition in French) appear (when they exist) at the end of the song sheet.

Place names are now available in Gallo. Thanks to Régis AUFFRAY for this excerpt from his dictionary Le petit Matao.

All the forms of the Coirault catalog are available.

New links to sites on traditional French song have been added.

Six cassettes published by L'Épille between 1997 and 2002 are now available on the site for listening. There are 177 songs available. Thanks to L'Épille who authorized the posting of these tapes.

Listening to Roland BROU's CD, Trois garçons du lion d'or released in 1996. Thanks to Roland BROU who authorized the online release of this CD.

A total of 1757 songs can be listened to on the site.

First public version of the site on songs of oral tradition in French collected in Brittany and published in books, magazines, manuscripts, vinyls, cassettes and CDs.
The census of these songs mainly takes into account works published between 1852 (L'enquête Fortoul) and 2000. More recent works are included in the bibliography, but are not yet reviewed.
More than 8700 occurrences of songs are available. These occurrences correspond to 6260 different versions and 2653 standard songs. They were collected from 946 interpreters in 460 communes by 392 collectors. The online consultation of 271 books in PDF is proposed, as well as access to 1698 Mp3 from vinyls, cassettes and CDs.

The site's Bécam catalogue is complementary to the existing catalogues (Coirault and Laforte). It adds new song-type and new occurrences of existing song-types.
The large corpus of short songs (384 song-types) and enumerative songs (266 song-types), often neglected in existing catalogues, is taken into account. Full text research on these songs is proposed. For standard songs added to existing catalogues, critical titles are provisional and abstracts are not available. Further analysis is needed.
The attribution of themes to songs is only partially done and needs to be deepened.

Anyone wishing to contribute to the evolution of this site is welcome.

Test version not open to the public.