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National Library of New Zealand Catalogue    Find where and when NZ songs were recorded, and by whom.
APRA works search     tells who wrote or recorded NZ songs
Papers Past    Search old New Zealand newspapers, 1840 to1915
Te Ao Hou     published from 1952 to 1976 by the Maori Affairs Dept.
Haka, waiata, mythical tales and record reviews, (as well as articles on agriculture, recipes, wood carving and important obituaries.)
Maori Dictionary

Go to more Online Maori Dictionaries

New Zealand Slang
Basic Kiwi expressions like [a bit of a dag! ], and a Kiwi/Yankee equivalentss like [mate/buddy].

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Mudcat Cafe Digital Tradition       5000 English/US Folk Songs, giving the tunes in several formats.
 Link updated, Mar 2002
OLGA      
On Line Guitar Archives of songs by the likes of Chuck Berry, The Beatles, The Byrds, Paul Simon.
In 2006 some mirror sites were closed by Court order. But the US mirror was still working when I last checked.
Enter name of artist, band, song title, or words.
Top 40 Lyrics       top of the charts from 1930 to 1999 by year, by title and by singer.
  [Main Index]
Contemplator's Traditional Songs
       Pre-1930s folk songs and music of the British Isles & America, with lyrics, midi, tune information and each song's history. Including Child ballads, harp tunes, songs of the sea
10,000 International Folksongs       Contains folksongs in many different languages
  [Home page]
Rod's Library of Traditional Music
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John's Guide to Writing Folk Ballads
1. I Know That Tune       2. Keep On Strumming      3. It Just Popped       4. I Had This Dream
5. Local Colour      6. Lights, Camera, Action      7. Here comes the chorus

Songwriter's Dictionary
Choose perfect rhyme, last sound, same consonants, synonyms, related words, dictionary, spelling check .
       
  Organize results by: Syllables Letters             Include phrases: Yes No

Guitar Chord Player       [Open this virtual guitar]


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Bartleby Search many classic reference books online

InfoPlease Looks up dictionary, encyclopedia, almanacs, biographies.
Amazon This is handy for music samples.


IMDb     Internet Movie Database
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Ngata Translation.
For more accurate results, type in a "SPACE" at the beginning OR end of each word you enter.
Gaelic Dictionaries

MacBain's Scottish. MacFarlane's School Scottish. Kelly's Manx. Gramadach Irish.
Latin Dictionary
       
Greek Dictionary
      cut and paste   ê   ô
Systran Translation

Text: Enter up to 150 words for translation

Web page: Enter the Web address of the page you wish to translate

Other NZ Databases - Trad Folk Songs - Song Writing - Reference Books - Translations - Search Engines - Home
Google is such a good search engine now, as I write this in 2005, that the rest of these are now almost redundant. However Altavista-Audio is good for finding MP3 and RealAudio sound files.
Altavista Audio search
MP3  WAV  WindowsMedia  Real  AIFF  Other  
File size

E-mail Addresses
  Yahoo! People Search, Switchboard, Network Solutions, Usenet Addresses, WhoWhere? & Keyserver.


Copy the source code of this page onto your hard drive, put your own name at the top,
delete the search boxes you don't want from (FORM) to (/FORM) , and use it as your start-up page.
Began 1 Nov 1998, latest revision 8 Jan 2007