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There are now hundreds of thousands of abc tunes available online from several hundred tune collections. This page lists the collections and links to their websites, categorised as follows:
- abc versions of historical tunebooks & manuscripts
- early & classical music in abc
- song collections
- large abc collections
- smaller abc collections
- LOTRO abc music - pop / rock and other genres
- session tunes in abc
- band repertoires in abc
- original music in abc
- compilations of other abc collections
You can search most of these collections (or browse the titles) with the abc tune search:
Let me know if you would like a collection included on this page.
the collections
abc versions of historical tunebooks & manuscripts
- The Village Music Project (traditional English music from original manuscripts)
- Jack Campin's tunes (various)
- John Chambers' online music books (including O'Neill's books)
- The Old Music Project
- John Offord's John of the Greeny Cheshire Way, provided by Steve Bliven & Alice Flynn
- Take 6 Transcription Programme - online access to the EFDSS archives at Folkopedia
- Tunes from William Clarke transcribed by Mary Humphreys and others
- Bagpipe tunes from Pete Stewart via Julian Goodacre
- Ross Anderson's tune collections from the 18th & 19th centuries
- A Handbook of Morris Dances ("The Black Book") by Lionel Bacon, provided by Vaughan Hully & John Maher of The Morris Ring
- Chris Partington's abc transcriptions including Playford's Dancing Master and The Fiddler's Tune Books
- Andy Hornby's tunes, including historical sources and original material
- Fife & Drum online, with lots of abcs for fife & drum bands
- Wiki::Score, a platform similar to the Wikipedia for cooperative editing of large scale music scores
early & classical music in abc
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Movement 2, coded by Steve Allen
- Ali Corbin's transcriptions of medieval music (some in abc)
- An archive of lute and ensemble music from Taco Walstra
- Arbeau's Orchesographie from Nicholas Graner
- Transcriptions of (mainly) organ pieces from Jef Moine, author of abcm2ps
- Renaissance polyphony from Serpent Publications
- Some classical multivoice scores from Bas Schoutsen
- Eric Forgeot's collection of traditional & ancient music
song collections
- The Digital Tradition (hosted by the Mudcat Cafe) is a large collection of folk songs with abc versions of many of the tunes
- The Essen Folk Song Database - a huge collection converted into abc by Seymour Shlien
- Cantaria - a library of traditional & contemporary folk songs, some with abcs
- Songs from John Atchley
- Christmas songs from Kevin Goess
- Tunes from the Digital Tradition compiled by Erich Rickheit
- ABC Christmas Carols and Hymns from Steve Merrony
- Bruce Olson's ballad collection
- A large collection of folk songs archived from the now defunct folkinfo.org
large abc collections
Typically with more than 500 tunes:
- Jack Campin's tunes (various)
- The Ceolas tune archive
- Henrik Norbeck's ABC tunes
- James Allwright's abc version of the Nottingham Music Database
- Sylvain Piron's French Trad abc collection
- abc tunes from Cranford Publications
- Dan Cobb's Irish Tunes
- Simon Wascher's Tune Collection
- Favourite English dance tunes from the Lewes sessions, Sussex
- Tunes from Christoph Zeiler's diatonic button accordion page
- Tunes from Alf Warnock & Bruce Osborne
- Nigel Gatherer's abc collection
- Peter Doyle's fiddle tunes
- Andrew Kuntz's massive Fiddler's Companion (in the process of being converted into the Traditional Tune Archive)
- The Traditional Music and Dance Wiki
- Tunes from the Wednesday night session at O'Regans in Montreal
- Seymour Shlien's Balkan & Israeli Dances
- FolkWiki - a wiki site with Swedish / Nordic folk music
- Steve Mansfield's abc tunes from Le Grand Session de Manchester, the woodenflute mailing list and others
- Concertina.net
- Tunes from Roaring Jelly (Boston)
- The Session - an online tune exchange with a huge collection of tunes (mostly Irish) and a vibrant community of users.
- Bill Black's CapeIrish website
- Tunes from the Montreal Session Tunebook
- Richard Robinson's TuneBook Live!
- Andrew Kuntz's Traditional Tune Archive wiki (formerly known as The Fiddlers Companion)
- Andy Hornby's tunes, including historical sources and original material
smaller abc collections
- Steve Allen's Morris library
- James Allwright's abc tunes
- Ronan Keryell's Breton tunes
- Stephen Klein's fiddle tunes
- Robert Blakeley's Irish Music
- Paul Slater's abc tunes
- Bernard Loffet's abcs and diatonic accordion tablature
- Lesl's Welsh Collection
- Bill Anderson's collection of Macedonian, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish and Kurdish tunes
- English Country Dance Tunes from Mickie & Elizabeth Zekley
- Irish traditional music from Greg Dahms
- Aubrey Jaffer's tune collection
- Luis Miguel Escalona's Music from Huesca in Aragon
- Captain Kidd's music collected by David Kidd
- Bonanzaville Old Time Family Jam
- Tunes collected by John Relph
- Some morris tunes from American Morris News
- ConcertinaMusic.com - the Chemnizter concertina website
- Irish & German music from the German concertina pages
- Tunes from Dominique Renaudin
- Tunes from José João A. G. Dias de Almeida
- Australian dance music
- Dance tunes from Hermann Fritz
- Dexter N. Muir's abc tunes
- Contradancers of Hawaii
- Tunes from the American Nyckelharpa Association
- Tunes from Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann
- A Big Bunch O'Tunes from the Arkansas Celtic Music Society
- Scottish & Irish tunes
- Cape Breton tunes from Paul Fackler
- Tunes from Mandozine
- Tunes from the New Mexico Folk Dance & Song Society
- Sheffield University's Ceilidh Soc
- Briezh Partitions - free Celtic sheet music
- Wikimusica - Tom Keays' Irish & Scandinavian tunes
- O'Flaherty Irish Music Retreat
- Cliff Moses' traditional Irish music for the hammered dulcimer
- The WaterPig Hurdy Gurdy Sheet Music Project
- Colin Hume's tunes
- Peter Yarensky's New Hampshire Old-Time Country Dance website
- Tunes from Lester Bailey
- Tunes from Clark McGrew
- Tunes from Sam Brody
- Tunes from firepowr.com
- Hommel (dulcimer) tunes from Michel Heijblom
- Tunes from the Newfoundland and Labrador Fiddlers
- Irish tunes from Alan Ng
- Tunes from Terry Traub
- Set dance tunes from Gordon Turnbull at The Flow
- Australian tunes
- Gutenbrunner Nachlese
LOTRO abc music - pop / rock and other genres
Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) is a multiplayer online role-playing game which has adopted abc as its music system. The collections of abcs generated by users are highly eclectic and include rock and pop classics as well as classical and folk. However, some of them are derived from quantized midi files, so although the playback is OK, the staff notation looks a little odd (e.g. no bar lines, strange time signatures, etc).
- The Fat Lute - a large abc song book for LOTRO
- lotro-abc.com - a large abc song book for LOTRO
- The LOTRO ABC Songbook - a large community-based forum with lots of abcs from LOTRO players
- LOTRO vault - contributed songs in abc
session tunes in abc
- Tunes from the Irish Heather session
- Tunes from Mitchell's Famous Irish Session
- Tunes from the Pinecone Beginners Irish Session
- Tunes from the Celtic Arts Center of Southern California slow session
- Tunes from slowplayers.org
- Paul Hardy's Session Tunebook
- Hobart Session Tunes
- Milwaukee Slow Session Tunes
- Irish Session Tunes in Eastern Massachusetts from John M. Sullivan, Jr
- The Northern Virginia (NoVa) Irish Session
- Session tunes from Corvallis Celtic Jam
- Tunes from SessioNite
band repertoires in abc
- Scottish, Irish & Welsh Tunes from the band Wild Dismay
- Tunes from The Cat's Whiskers Barn Dance Band
- Tunes from The Geckoes
- Les Infants du Catiau
- Standing Stones
- Tunes from SPUDS, a pickup band from Philadelphia
- The Bassett Street Hounds Tunebook
- The Big Round Band from Cambridge
- Tunes from The Delivery Boys
- Contradance tunes from Good Parking
- Tunes from "The Irish Band" of Columbia, Missouri
- Tunes from the Oxford Fiddle Group
- Pat Palmer's tunes
- Tunes from Roaring Jelly (New Mexico)
- Tunes from the Sydney Scottish Fiddlers
- Celtic tunes from Slainte
- Termen
- Sydney Scottish Fiddlers
- Winterbourn Down Border Morris
- French tunes from Cam-French
- Dance tunes from Red Herring Morris
- Tunes from Nordic Fiddles & Feet Music
- Tunes from the Scottish Fiddle Club of Oregon
- Dance tunes from MOTley Morris
- Tunes from Peter Jenkins - original and repertoire from the band Kafoozalum
- eTuneBook featuring BoxPlayer.abc - piano accordion tunes played by Martin Fleischmann
original music in abc
- Contemporary compositions in abc from Gavin Atkin
- Fiddle tunes from Harry Bolick
- Tunes from Mickie & Elizabeth Zekley
- Tunes from Paul Gitlitz
- Julia West's songs
- Greg Anderson's orginal contradance tunes
- Original tunes from Contranella
- Tunes from Kiwi Folk, New Zealand
- Tunes from Andrew Swaine
- The Stephen Foster abc fakebook
- Original tunes by Sarah Gowan & Bill Quern
- Tunes from The Kaubells
- Tunes by Mits Ota
- Tunes by Bruce Shawyer
- Tunes from David de la Barre
- Andy Hornby's tunes, including historical sources and original material
- Tunes from Peter Jenkins - original and repertoire from the band Kafoozalum
- Stephen McNally's Tunes
compilations of other abc collections
These are collections of tunes, compiled from various sources all over the web; usually they are huge, typically with 20,000 tunes or more
- John Chambers' abc collection
- John Layton's big list, a single file containing many of the collections listed here
- French and other tunes from Michel Bellon
- Bagpipe tunes from Corneymusers
- Fiddle Fork - an online fiddling community site
- A large compilation of abcs from José A. Oliveira
Let me know if you would like a collection included on this page.
Note for newcomers: If you've stumbled across this page by accident - perhaps via a web search - welcome, and thanks for visiting the abc web site! Here is just a taste of what you can find at abcnotation.com, either here or via a link:
- specialist software which can generate tabulature and fingering charts for instruments such as guitar, mandolin & banjo (and other fretted, stringed instruments), fiddle / violin / voila, diatonic accordion, trumpet, horn euphonium & tuba, harmonica and drums
- a notation format popular all over the world, particularly for folk and traditional music
- around 380,000 tunes, available as free sheet music or midi sound files, at this site alone
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