Welcome to my collection of collections of mostly celtic tunes
in ABC format.

old ABC link
Here is a local copy of an explanation of the ABC format

On the local pages here you will be able to browse the existing data base with your browser, and have the tunes submitted to you in ABC, Postscript, PNG, or JPEG format for printing, as well as listening to a MIDI file of the tune if you desire.

As far as I know, publishing this material here does not violate any copyrights or wishes of the authors. If you know otherwise please let me know! And, I think it goes without saying, the people who created,edited and published these abc archives deserve a huge thanks for those of us who are able to use these texts to further our own understanding and enjoyment of celtic music.

Contact me at "weltyj (at_sign) yahoo.com" with comments or glowing praise for the interface :-)


(Now with note searching!) search the local archive

There are about 23,000 tunes archived here now, many are duplicates from different sources...

There is a brief help page for this archive, what the columns mean, how to try to improve the rendering of the sheet music, etc.

The raw abc files for this archive are here.


The Collections

WWW source Local files Last update
Blarney Stone Pub Session Tunebook 10/02/2005
Bog Wanderers Ceili Band 11/07/2008
Ceili House Band 10/02/2005
Dan Cobb's Music of Ireland 10/02/2005
Hans Speek's page about Joe Cooley 10/02/2005
Heather Session (Vancouver BC) tunes transcribed by Dave Marshall 10/25/2007
Irishtunes.net - Site no longer exists - http://irishtunes.net/n-index.html/ 10/02/2005
Tunes from www.irishtradmusic.org 10/01/2008
John Walsh's very popular collections of tunes common at Irish music sessions from www.ceolas.org 10/02/2005
Bernie Stocks' collections of "The Microphone's Rambles" from Broken Link Alternate link 10/02/2005
Alan Ng's transcriptions 10/02/2005
The Nottingham Music Database 10/02/2005
Trish O'Neil's collection 10/02/2005
Oneill's Music Books from John Chambers 10/04/2003
Vince Brennan's Old Time Music collection 10/31/2005
Pubscouts 10/04/2003
The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy 10/24/2008
Richard Robinson 11/04/2007
www.tullochgorm.com 10/04/2003
Alfred Warnock (from Canada) 10/04/2003
The Zouki ABC collection 10/04/2003
Miscellaneous 10/04/2003

Resources on the net

John Chamber's ABC tune finder If it's not here, it's not anywhere!
Chris Walshaw's awesome list of abc files around the net
Richard Robinson's search for tunes by individual notes
TuneDB search for tunes by individual notes
The Old Music Project Hosted by Vince Brennan
Irish Traditional Music Tune Index From Alan Ng, find who recorded what tunes on albums/CDs
Virtual Session at BBC Play along with a real session recording and sheet music
Tunes at Ceolas
Tune Links
thesession.org
Henrik Norbeck's web site
CelticMusic.com
Co. Champaign (Illinois, that is)
Northern Virginia Irish Session Pages
Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America - Midis, Lyrics and Information
IrishLyricsAtoZ
irish Folk Music
Han's Irish Music Homepage (@HCCnet)
Other Irish/Celtic Guitar Sites
The Cat's Whiskers Barn Dance Band