Web Resources

A number of catalogues are published on the website, both in databases and as scanned catalogue cards:
https://musikverket.se/svensktvisarkiv/sok-i-samlingarna/
Folkmusikkommissionen's (The Folk … Read moreMusic Commission) material (musical notations and texts) has been scanned and a selection of Svenkst visarkiv's recordings have been published for streaming on the website.

Vis- och låtregistret. The song and tune register has about 200,000 entries including songs and tunes from printed publications ranging from the songbooks of 16th century nobility to contemporary songs and pop tunes.

Folkmusikkommissionens notsamling och Musikmuseets spelmansböcker. 
Folkmusikkommissionen's collection includes 45,000 pages of tunes and songs as they were collected and transcribed in their original form a hundred years ago. 

Register över Sveriges Medeltida Ballader
An index to the publication Sveriges Medeltida Ballader (Sweden's Medieval Ballads), vol. 1-5, published between 1983 and 2001. You can search the entire ballad material using a number of different access points such as singers/tradition bearers, a first line, a final refrain and more. The SMB numbers include all ballad variants known at the time of publication that have been perceived to belong to the same ballad type (all SMB books are now available as PDFs on the page with online publications, see below).

Inspelningar i Svenskt visarkiv
Here you can search the catalogue entries of Svenskt visarkiv's extensive collections of non-commercially published recordings. The catalogue contains information of both Svenskt visarkiv's original recordings and recordings donated by other institutions and private individuals. You can also listen to many recordings that are more than 50 years old, or those where we have received special permission from the copyright holders.

Karl Tiréns fonografinspelningar av jojkning
In this catalogue of Karl Tirén's phonograph recordings of joik/yoik, you can search in free text for information about phonographic recordings of Sami joik/yoik between 1913–1915.
Scanned older card catalogues of songs.

"Fördjupa dig i arkiven" [Immerse yourself in the archives] is the title of a number of resource pages with informative texts, images and recordings within various areas.

Handskrivna visböcker.
A selection of handwritten songbooks that show the role they could have played in the everyday lives of people from Gotland from 1820 onwards.

Medeltida ballader
The Svenskt visarkiv has been documenting, publishing and researching ballads since the 1950s. Here you can listen to recordings and find some of the lyrics and melodies. You can also read about the the history of the ballads as well as content, form and much more.

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