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Music Sources
Last updated: August 10, 1998
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Downloadable Music Notation (Return to Top)
This is a listing of those sites we know of with downloadable music in the form of noation. Most of these sites provide graphic images of some sort, but some provide other means of viewing and printing the music. Adobe Acrobat files are the most common of these other types. The sites listed here are almost all collections of traditional tunes or early music where copyright is not an important issue. Realize though, that the producers of these images do maintain copyright on their edition/arrangement of the music. Be sure to give them credit if you use their materials and be sure to read carefully any information they provide about how they are willing to have the music used. When in doubt, contact the producer! Please contact Chuck Boody for suggested additions or changes.
A Collection of Irish Tunes (Dan Biemborn)
Andy Alexis's Music Page
Australian Dance Music Page
Ceolas: Tunes
Henrik's Irish and Swedish Traditional Tunes and Songs
Kitchen Musician's Music for Downloading
The Nottingham Music database
Richard Robinson's Tunebook
this is a collection of traditional tunes from Ireland,
England, Scotland and the Northern Isles, Scandinavia and further
afield. Jigs and reels, polskas and schottisches, waltzes,
bourrees, horos and more.
Richard Robinson's Tune Search
This is a searchable index of tunes in various formats available on the entire web!
It is not complete, but growing rapidly and very useful indeed! Thank you Richard.
TuneWeb (Richard Darsie)
A great resource of all kinds of tunes!
ABC encoded Music files (Return to Top)
This is a listing of some of the sites which support downloadable music in the form of ABC notation. ABC is a quick easy text based method of describing simple music like dance tunes. Programs exist for both the Mac and the PC that will turn ABC into music notation, and/or into MIDI files (at least on the PC). Further information about ABC is available at the ABC home page. These sites are collections of traditional tunes or early music where copyright is not an important issue. Realize though, that the producers of these images do maintain copyright on their edition/arrangement of the music. Be sure to give them credit if you use their materials and be sure to read carefully any information they provide about how they are willing to have the music used. When in doubt, contact the producer! Please contact Chuck Boody for suggested additions or changes.
An ABC Library of Morris Tunes
Andy Alexis's Music Page
Bernie Stocks' Music Page (ABC format)
Ceolas: Tunes
Henrik's Irish and Swedish Traditional Tunes and Songs
John Chambers ABC page
This is an extensive collection of traditional tunes from many many countries
and has some useful scripts for the computer hacker to automate finding and
accumulating tunes or creating medleys. A good site for musics outside the
celtic traditions (as well as within it).
Michael Loehr's Music Page
Mike Simpson's Tune Collection
NAFA Tune Collections List
O'Neill's Music of Ireland
Tulloch Gorm: Celtic Music of Scotland, Cape Breton and the Shetlands
The Web-Wide ABC index (Chris Walsh)
Tunes from France
MIDI Music files (Return to Top)
This is a listing of some of the sites which support downloadable music in the form of MIDI files. MIDI files can be played through most sequencers on most computers and can be played directly through your browser using programs like Crescendo(TM) from LiveUpdate. They provide a neat backup band to play along with you as you practice, and since speed can be altered without changing the pitch they are an excellent tool for learning tunes by ear. These sites are collections of traditional tunes or early music where copyright should not be an important issue. Realize though, that the producers of these images do maintain copyright on their arrangement of the music. Be sure to give them credit if you use their materials and be sure to read carefully any information they provide about how they are willing to have the music used. When in doubt, contact the producer! Please contact Chuck Boody for suggested additions or changes.
Barry Taylor's Home Page
Ceolas: Tunes
Folk Music of England, Scotland, Wales, America & Others - Tunes, Lyrics and Information
Folk Music Rources on the Internet - Tunes
Harold Doolan's Tunebook
The Jordan-O'Connel Memorial Celtic Midi Archiv
Kitchen Musician's Music for Downloading
Kipp Doolan's Tunebook
NAFA Tune Collections List
O'Neill's Music of Ireland
Standard MIDI files on the net
This is "the" source for all sorts of MIDI files. Prepare to be astonished!
Tunes from France
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