Tunes and Songs.

An overview page about tunes and songs (printed and electronic) for the World can be found in: Ceolas.

In the chapter "World" you will find a W I L D collection of links to other countries, in order to give people a quick access to various tunes and songs.

The main overview page about tunes in ABC-notation can be found in the abc musical notation language.
The ABC-notation is a simple and compact format, much used and especially made for traditional music.
It can be read both by people and by computers.
It can also be used for discussing tunes via e-mail.
An explanation about the ABC-notation and available software can also be found there and it contains also a WWW-wide index of abc tunes!!
A very simple and handy program for transposing tunes in ABC can be found here.

Joop Coolegem from Heiloo made a shell program, that is using among others
abc2ps, a text editor and Gsview to convert ABC into music notation in PDF (for easy viewing and printing), to transpose it and to play it.
It is also able to show the fingering for melodeons in C/F (with turned 5th key on the inner row), G/C and D/G, fingering for tin whistles in D, G and Bb and for chords on the guitar.
Click here for a complete software package.

See also: JC's ABC tune finder with also on-line translation of abc to graphical tadpoles or MIDI-formats by John Chambers (so you do not need ABC-translation software to be able to play a tune)
and TUNEdb by Richard Moon.

[Tunes on Internet]

[Tunes on Paper]

[World]

Tune composed by Hans den Bezemer

(hmdbezemer@chello.nl):
Shannon jig (MIDI file, 19 kbytes).

My Music Pages (by Egon Kraak)

Favourite tunes played by Egon.
Also some own compositions an arrangements.
And an on-line scanned copy of
"The Dance Music of Ireland - 1001 GEMS" by Capt.Francis O'Neill, 1907
(in *.gif files, 1 file per page)

• The Sailor's Bonnet, 40 Irish tunes, by Guy Roelofs, 1991, published by Stichting Volksmuziek Nederland

• The Scholar, 50 Irish tunes collected by Guy Roelofs, 1992, published by Stichting Volksmuziek Nederland,
  ISBN 90 74434 01 0.

• Fiddler's Manuscript of Wieger Michiels Visser, 1817-1821, by Wieger Michiels Visser (1801-1886) from Oosterzee in Friesland.
  This manuscript contains a lot of Celtic and Celtic related tunes used for folkdancing in Friesland.
  The original can be found in Proviciale Bibliotheek Leeuwarden (provincial library of Leeuwarden).

• Fiddler's Manuscript of Andries Kiers, 1864, by (or for) Andries Kiers (1851-?) from Friesland.
  This manuscript contains some Celtic and Celtic related tunes used for folkdancing in Friesland.
  The original can be found in Proviciale Bibliotheek Leeuwarden (provincial library of Leeuwarden).

• Two dance collections from Friesland and their Scotch, English and continental connections, by Joan Rimmer (from U.S.A.), published by Frysk Ynstitut oan de ryksuniversiteit to Grins (Frisian institution of the university of Groningen), Groningen, 1978.
  It is available in the library of Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, see RUG - Bibliotheken en Catalogi.
  This is a thesis about the similarity of the folkdance music of Friesland in the 19th century and the folkdance music of the other side of the North Sea.
  This thesis contains also photographs of the complete Fiddler's Manuscripts of Wieger Michiels Visser and Andries Kiers.

• Het Vioolboek van Wieger Michiels Visser, rewritten copy of fiddler's manuscript of Wieger Michiels Visser, rewritten by B.Lotz and J.Lookman, published by Stichting Volksmuziek Nederland, about 1985.

• Het Muziekboek van Kiers, rewritten copy of fiddler's manuscript of Andries Kiers, rewritten by Anneke Goudkuil for C/F-melodeon, transcribed from D/G to C/F :-( , published by Stichting Volksmuziek Nederland, 1999.

• Muzijkstukken, Jacob Pieters Beukema, rewritten + photografic copy of dance music manuscript of Jacob Pieters Beukema (1782-1859) from Leens in Groningen, ca.1845, rewritten and published by Grunniger Folkmusic group Törf, 1998, ISBN 90-9011746-6.
  This manuscript contains a lot of Celtic related tunes used for folkdancing in the province of Groningen, Nederland.
  Törf also made a CD, called "Törf Speult Beukema".
  Info: Bert Ridderbos, e-mail: b.ridderbos@rcondw.rug.nl
  The Törf homepage also contains an example of a tune as gif-file.

• Atlantic Fringe, "Fiddletunes" rond de Atlantic uit het Repertoire van de East-West Stringband en Slip-Jig Stringband, written by Jack Schroevers, published by "Oosterkampen" Muziek-Werkplaats, Hartweg 17, 1733EW Nieuwe-Niedorp, Nederland, 3th edition, 1997.
  It contains traditional music from Ireland, Scotland, Shetland and North-America, transcribed from tapes collected in the last 25 years from young, old and very old musicians from these countries.
  Info: Jack Schroevers, e-mail: jackschr@wxs.nl

The Session

Tunes in ABC-notation and translated into graphical tadpoles format send-in by members. With comments, backgrounds and discussions about the tunes. A kind of on-line session. You can ask questions about the versions, etc.

O'Neill in ABC

The collections of Capt.Francis O'Neill (~1900) transcribed in ABC-notation.

Digital Tradition folk Song Database. (via Mudcat Café)

This database contains words and music of thousands of folk songs (Irish, English, Scottish, Australian traditional and related music).
Tunes of a lot of these songs can be found here.

http://www.tunefull.org/.

Site by David Meredith from Belgium with among others a lot of his own great compositions.

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ULSTERSONGS.

Site with info about music from Ulster.

Sites Offering Irish Music MIDI Files

This page gives a list of a lot of sites with Celtic MIDI files.