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New: Audio Illustration

Christian Morvan's 78-rpm collection offers 113 songs on Popular Broadsides, corresponding to 79 standard songs.
These interpretations are varied: a-capella singing, accompanied singing, choir. They represent a sample of what was done between 1932 and 1955, often far removed from what we are used to hearing today.
See the audio illustrations

Bibliography

The bibliography, which was very succinct, was brought up to date. In particular, articles published between 1981 and 2020 in Musique Bretonne, Dastum's magazine, have been added. Links have been made between this bibliography, the songs, authors and publishers of Broadside.
See the bibliography

Additions

All 224 Broadsheets from Gwennole Le Menn's collection, made available to us by Brieg Le Menn, have been processed.
In total, this analysis identified 44 new Broadsheets mainly about religious affairs, added a new edition to 15 Broadsheets already listed, identified 58 new songs, 7 new authors (P.M. France, grand vicar; Mauny; William Jenkyn Jones, Barzig Koatnizan; Prigent, lanvilin person; Philippe, rector of Saint-Gilles-Pligeaux (1791); F.M. unidentified) and a new publisher (Tanguy-Burel in Concarneau).

The following Pdfs have been added:
- 108 Pdf from Gwennole Le Menn's collection
- 7 Pdf from Julien Cornic's collection
- 127 Pdf of Broadsheets corresponding to songs existing in Oral Tradition.

Correspondence between Broadsheets and the Oral Tradition

The identification of songs collected in the Oral Tradition that can also be found on popular broadsides continues: 74 new songs have been listed. For the 188 songs currently listed, titles and abstracts have been harmonized in both parts of the site (Broadsheets and Oral Tradition).

Database additions:
Gwennole Le Menn’s collection of broadsheets, made available to us by Brieg Le Menn, includes 226 broadsheets, half of which have been processed so far: 114 Pdfs have been added.
This analysis identified 16 new broadsheets mainly about religious subjects, added a new edition to 6 broadsheets already listed, identified 27 new songs, 3 new authors (P.M. France, Grand Vicar; Mauny; William Jenkyn Jones) and a new publisher (Tanguy-Burel in Concarneau).
This inventory was facilitated by the detailed directory of her broadsheets that Gwennole Le Menn had made in 2009.

The following additions made extensive use of Gérard BAILLOUD’s research "L’imprimerie Lédan à Morlaix (1805 à 1880)" published by Skol in 1999. This work was completed by Hervé PEAUDECERF in his thesis "Alexandre-Louis-Marie Ledan (1777-1855) - Un imprimeur breton au XIXe siècle (1805-1855)" presented in 2002. These additions therefore mainly concern the publisher Lédan.

• For the British Library, addition of:
  • 146 Pdfs of broadsheets (scanned by Google); ;
  • 59 occurrences of broadsheets not available for consultation. For 36 of them, the edition could be identified and for 23, the edition could not be identified [noted edition 99].
• For the BnF (National Library of France), addition of 238 occurrences of broadsheets of which Pdfs are not available.
• For the Dobrée Museum, addition of 35 occurrences of broadsheets for which PDFs are not available.

In addition, 128 Pdfs of broadsheets corresponding to existing songs in TO, were also added.
Added to a total of 388 Pdfs.
Addition of 20 song summaries made by Marie-Françoise Lestic.

Site improvements:

• The news published on facebook are fully integrated on the site’s portal page
• Miscellaneous corrections: search by original title ...

Database additions:

• Added 193 Pdf of Broadsheet featuring songs existing in Oral Tradition. These PDOs were created from scans made by Patrick Malrieu in various libraries: the Library of Rennes Metropole, the Municipal Library of Quimper, the CRBC (Breton and Celtic Research Centre) and the Morlaix Municipal Library.
• Added 64 abstracts by Marie-Françoise Lestic.

Site improvements:

• Correspondence between Oral Tradition Songs and Broadsheet
  Some songs, collected in the Oral Tradition, have also been published in Broadsheet. For example: Ar filouter fin / Le fin filou (M-00179 et C-00530). For the time being the correspondence has been established for 69 songs, but there are others that will be gradually processed on the site.
  For these songs, the Breton and French critical titles, as well as the summaries have been harmonized.
  A link at the end of the song, allows you to move from the Broadsheet part of the site to the Oral Tradition part.
• The translation of the FV site into Breton is now almost complete thanks to the work of Pascal Lintanf.
• It is now easier for members to connect(pop-up) and the graphics have been slightly improved

• Added 30 PDFs of Brest Municipal Library, with the help of Doriane HELLIO.
• The translation of the site into English is now complete.

• Added 103 new summaries.
• Added 61 listenable scores. There are now 241 listenable scores.
• Cross-references between songs.
• Translation of the site into English (90%) and Breton (60%)

Release 5 adds 114 printable PDF files, from the Landévennec Library (all of Landévennec\'s PDF is now available), and 44 listenable scores. It is now possible to search for songs according to the place mentioned in the text.

Release 4 adds 157 prints viewable in PDF, from the Landévennec library, and 61 listenable scores.
In addition, studies on songs are now referenced, some of which are even viewable directly in PDF.
In the lists of songs, icons ( and ) allow users to easily visualize whether the song has a study or a listening score.

Release 3 adds 107 prints viewable in PDF, i.e. 2663 pages, and 86 scores, played by a synthesizer, consultable in MP3 format.
In addition, a multi-criteria advanced search has been added to the search:
-by Song: Language of the song, text in verse or prose, summary available, scores, available, partition listenable
- by broadsheet: PDF available
The graphics of the site has also been improved.

Release 2 adds 839 new song summaries and 606 printable PDF prints from the Landévennec library and the Diocese of Quimper and Leon Library.
New features have also been added to the site:
-Possibility to save authors, editors, songs, stamps and printed materials for connected users
-Choice of the language to display songs in the authors \' broadsheets
-Multilingual Home Page

This version is the first public version of this site.
It references 4658 broadsheets of which 3165 are viewable.
These broadsheets include 6627 songs corresponding to 5626 different songs. Abstracts of 2580 songs are available.