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http://members.aol.com/boynehunt - Ceili house band tunes in GIF format (& abc)

http://www.thesession.org

http://www.kitchenmusician.net/pages/kmmusicalpha.html  - Tunes in GIF and MIDI files. Celtic, English and American

http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/#collections   Collections of tunes in abc format

 

 

 

 

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/findtune.html - Good place to find sheet music. Here you can get ABC, PostScript, GIF, PDF and MIDI versions of tunes

 

http://members.home.com/eskin/tunebook.html - Downloadable tunebook - 115 pages.  Pdf file (4.0 Megabyte, Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 format). Contains a large selection of the most well-known session tunes

 

http://userweb.nashville.com/~dan.mozell/mfiles.htm - Tunes from a mixture of traditions. Visit this interesting Music Files page by Dan Mozell

 

http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/ - Perhaps the most comprehensive website for tunes. Good place to start - but be careful not to get lost. Hundreds of resources here

http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc
 The Fiddler's Companion tune index

 

http://www.concertina.net/tunes.html - Another site with tunes

 

http://www.jigs-n-reels.com/ - Jigs and reels, with samples on the tin whistle

 

http://www.lesession.demon.co.uk/abc/abc_notation.htm - "Abc"? what's that?
On this great resource site by Steve Mansfield you'll learn how to interpret "abc" music notation

 

http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~tradsoc/archive/ - Website of Dublin City University Traditional Music Society   

http://www.contemplator.com/carolan/caroltun.html#top - Tunes by Turlough O'Carolan

 

http://www.cros.net/mbrodie/htdocs/reelmusic/files.htm - MIDI files, from the "Tunes of Erin" website


Denis Queille sent the following information and links

"The home page of the inventor of ABC, which contains theoretical explanations about the notation, a list of softwares using this format, and a lot on links to ABC collections. http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/#software

The ABC collection of Henrick Norbeck from Sweden is one of the most exhaustive collections available on the net. It contains about 700 reels, 300 jigs and so on. Moreover, the tunes are well written and can be used with the different softwares without any problem" http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-11382/abc.htm 


"abc"  what's that?  

 http://www.execpc.com/~jimvint/index.html - A useful place to start


WALTZES

Finding waltzes on the net  (French language site, but this is not a problem if you don't understand French)

http://termen.free.fr/danses/valses/


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