Tunes

GENERAL INFO

GENERAL

Manuscript Paper Using Your Own Printer http://www.sheetmusic1.com/MUSIC.RACK.HTML
Remembering Key Signatures http://users.uniserve.com/~lwk/keysig.htm

 

ABC NOTATION & UTILITIES

ABC Home Page: Reference, Utility & Tunes http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/
ABC2Win: ABC player for the PC http://www.execpc.com/~jimvint/
BarFly: ABC Player for the Macintosh http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com/
Breandán Breathnach: 'Between the Jigs and the Reels', CEOL V.2 (Article on indexing March 1982) http://msikio.online.fr/Breathnach/breandn.htm
Breandán Breathnach: Indexing System within the ABC Format http://msikio.online.fr/Breathnach/bbcode.htm
Concertina.Net: Convert ABC to Standard Notation (includes PDF) http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html
Eric Mrozek: abc2ps (PC) convert ABCs to Postscript http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~mrozek/abc/abc2ps.html
Henrik Norbeck: AbcMus player program http://www.norbeck.nu/abcmus/
John Chambers: ABC intro, primer, FAQ, & Tunes http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/
Michael Methfessel: abc2ps (Mac) convert ABCs to Postscript Standard Music Notation http://www.ceolas.org/pub/tunes/abc2ps/
PS2PDF.COM: PostScript to PDF converter http://www.ps2pdf.com/
Steven Mansfield: PostScript to PDF converter http://www.lesession.vcisp.net/abc/abc_notation.htm
Steven Mansfield: How to interpret ABC music notation (tutorial) http://www.lesession.vcisp.net/abc/abc_notation.htm
Wil Macaulay: abc4mac, an ABC Player for the Macintosh http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/7088/abc4mac.html
Jens Wollschläger: ABC-Transposer http://www.8ung.at/abctransposer/

 

TABLATURE NOTATION

Howard Wright: The Guide to TAB Notation - How to Read & Write TAB http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/tab-notation.txt

Tablature USENET Newsgroup

rec.music.folk.tablature

TablEdit Tablature Editor http://www.tabledit.com/

TUNE COLLECTIONS

AUSTRALIAN

Mark Gregory: Australian Folk Songs http://crixa.com/muse/songnet/songs.html

 

ENGLISH, IRISH, SCOTTISH, etc.
AN t-ALLTAN DUBH: Gaelic Song Collection http://www.geocities.com/alltandubh/Clar.html
Alan Ng's Tunography: Irish Traditional Music Tune Index. http://www.irishtune.info/
Andrew Kuntz':The Fiddler's Companion: Encyclopedia of Fiddle Tunes http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html
Bill Black: THE ZOUKI ABC COLLECTION http://www.qmcorp.net/zouki/webabc/
The British Library - The National Sound Archive:  Traditional Music in England Project http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/traditional_music.html
Brother Steve: Technique and style in Irish traditional music - Transcriptions of traditional players, with mp3 sound clips and comments http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/tunetoc.html
Ceili House Band: ABC Archive http://members.aol.com/boynehunt/themusic.html
Dan Beimborn celticmusic.com: The Virtual Tunebook http://www.celticmusic.com/cgi-localbin/tunes.pl
Dan Mozell: Music Files (tunes) http://www.danmozell.com/mfiles.htm
Devin McCabe: Traditional Irish Dance Tunes  http://www.irishtunes.net/irishtunes.html
Dublin City University Traditional Musical Society (abc, gif, MIDI) http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~tradsoc/archive/
Henrik Norbeck: 1900 ABC Tunes http://www.norbeck.nu/abc/
Irish Folk Song Lyrics Archive Message Board http://talk.to/irishlyrics
Laura's MIDI Heaven: American, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh http://www.laurasmidiheaven.com/Folk.htm
Nottingham Folk Music Database: (abc, gif, ps) http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~ef//database.html
O'Neill's "Music of Ireland", "Dance Music of Ireland", and "Waifs & Strays of Gaelic Melody" On-line Transcriptions: (abc) http://www2.redhawk.org/irish/oneill/
Paul FacklerA Cape Breton Collection http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/p/pfackler/www/Music/
Richard Moon:  TUNEdb http://www.tunedb.org
Richard Robinson: Tunebook http://mytunebook.de/index.html
Seppo J Niemi: Irish Folk Lyrics http://www.cs.hut.fi/~zaphod/irish/all_titles.html
Steven Mansfield: Woodenflute list ABC tune archive http://www.lesession.vcisp.net/woodenflute
The Old Music Project: Transcriptions of  O'Neill's Music of Ireland, Complete O'Carolan, etc. http://www.oldmusicproject.com/
Wandering Whistler: Music Archives http://www.tinwhistler.com/music/

 

SCANDINAVIAN

Lennart Sohlman: Collection of Scandinavian tunes http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/listings.html#lennart

 

VARIOUS

A Traditional Music Library http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk
towerofbabel.com: Anthology of American Folk Music http://towerofbabel.com/sections/music/troubadours/anthology/
Andrew Draskóy: Shanties and Sea Songs http://www.delweb.com/andrew/shanty/
Barry Taylor: Taylor's Traditional MIDI Tunebook
Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, USA, Wales
http://www.contemplator.com/tunebook/index.htm
The Bitter End: Sea Shanty Links http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/alan.j.hardy/
Canteria: a library of "bardic" folk songs, mostly from Ireland, Scotland, and England http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/
Free Tablature Folklore Music http://perso.easynet.fr/~mleschen/tabs/folklore.htm
Folksongs of the World: Airs, Anthems, Ballads, Canons, Ditties, Folksongs, Hymns and War Songs.  Austria, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, USA, Wales http://www.acronet.net/~robokopp/folkindx.htm
Max Hunter Collection: an archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs http://www.smsu.edu/folksong/MaxHunter/
Music Related Resources, Research Aids and Reference Materials http://www.bl.uk/collections/musicguides.html
Pete Loud's Collection of Northumbrian, Tyneside and other Traditional Tunes for the Fiddle http://users.powernet.co.uk/mkmarina/tunebook/tunebook.html
Ultimate MIDI web page (Various Folk) http://www.ultimatemidi.com/midi4.html

 

NEW ZEALAND

John Archer: New Zealand Folk Songs http://folksong.org.nz/songlist.html

OTHER RESOURCES


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