The index was compiled and is maintained by Steve Roud, formerly the Local Studies Librarian in the London Borough of Croydon. He was also Honorary Librarian of the Folklore Society.

Roud numbers: Folk song titles are highly unstable – the same song can have dozens of different, or differently spelled, titles, the same title can be used for many songs, and many are published under …

Mar 27, 2025 · "The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.

Designed primarily as a finding-aid for traditional folk songs, which has three functions: The Index includes English-language songs from anywhere in the world, which have been found to be sung as …

Factsheet What does the noun roud mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun roud. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is used in eastern English …

The List of folk songs by Roud number is a systematic catalog of traditional English-language folk songs drawn from oral traditions worldwide, organized by unique numerical identifiers known as Roud …

Dec 2, 2021 · Steve Roud started his Roud Number Index in 1970, compiling library index cards in a shoebox. His interest in indexing songs grew out of his love for pop and R’n’B records of the 1960s.

It is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording index". It subsumes all the previous well-known printed sources known to Francis James Child and more …

The Traditional Ballad Index at the California State University at Fresno includes Roud numbers up to number 5,000 with comments on the songs, but draws on fewer sources.

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of nearly 200,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.