Na Píobairí Uilleann - IMCO (Irish Music Collections Online)
The IMCO (Irish Music Collections Online) facility was launched by Terry Moylan at the Breathnach Commemoration on Saturday 5th December.
It consists of modern interactive settings of tune and airs from music collections dating back to the early 18th century. Users can see the tune onscreen in staff notation, cna make it play, and can change the speed, key and pitch of the playback.
This new feature of our site is at www.pipers.ie/IMCO
(submitted on December 7th 2009 by ---)
300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty
The Mike Rafferty tune book transcribed and compiled by Lesl Harker now has its own web page thanks to Brad Hurley. Here you can look at the cover, a sample inside page, and the table of contents. This site also contains ordering information, frequently asked questions, detailed background on many of the tunes, testimonials from people who've bought the book, and a list of errata.
(submitted on August 14th 2006 by LH)
Abacci Music
Scores of popular traditional music, along with a discography and bibliography for each, a collection of tablature for the tin whistle, blues harp, mandolin and guitar plus a set of pages on the bass clef for cello players.
(submitted on June 29th 2003 by botheredbybees)
Alan Ng's Tunography
Great place to find the detailed info of the tune or recording you are looking for.
This site will give you the full contents of all tunes on a recorded track - CDs nowadays far too often only supply limited and unsufficient tune titles.
(submitted on September 10th 2003 by FiddleTramp)
Aldbrickham Clog tune book
Around 60 tunes - mainly trad, mainly English/Irish/Scottish/Welsh - used by clog dancing side based in Reading, England.
Tunes are generally given as 3 scores (melody/harmony + guitar/tab + bass/tab) & MIDI.
Developed by markplucker of this parish.
(submitted on March 4th 2010 by Markplucker)
All Tabs Music Tablature
All Tabs Music Tablature is a free source of music tablatures, 5-string banjo tablature, guitar tablature, mandolin tablature, fiddle tablature, bass tablature, tenor (4-string) banjo tablature, and dulcimer tablature. Free Midi files are provided with each tab. No membership sign-up or password is required. The tabs include a standard music notation option.
Many genres of music are covered but it does have some folk.
(submitted on September 8th 2005 by JonB)
Along The River
_Along the River_ is a collection of reels, jigs, and waltzes composed in the last quarter of the 20th century by dance musicians in one particularly lively corner of New England. Many of the tunes published in the book are included on a companion CD of the same name.
(submitted on May 6th 2004 by susanconger)
American Primitive Guitar
Fingerstyle guitar arrangements for guitar of celtic, traditional and americana tunes in tablature and sound files.
(submitted on July 7th 2003 by straggler)
Amhrán Na NGael - Irish Song
Amhrán na nGael -
A collection of songs in Irish Gaelic & English. The lyrics are in both languages and the tunes play as midi files in the background. Here also is a collection of Irish hymns.
(submitted on February 20th 2007 by Random_humour)
Archive Folx Dot Org
"...an online archive of trad & folk music" ~
"With the Ethno Movement as starting point, this database was created for everyone who loves folk music." ~ "Recordings, videos, sheet music, infos... browse through the collection or post something, too!"
(submitted on March 1st 2010 by ceolachan)
Atlanta Irish Music
There are 5 tunebooks on this site.....geared toward novice players and free for download. [mostly reels]
(submitted on July 11th 2009 by baylady)
BB ABC Collection
"Shake well before using." - The Management.
Irish traditional dance tunes from various sources.
(submitted on April 2nd 2007 by Random_humour)
Bernard Loffet Luthier
This wonderful site is in French and English although Bernard Loffet is an accordion player, check out his long list of tunes, particularly his mazurkas, available in MIDI, ABC and PDF.
(submitted on August 17th 2005 by Cath)
Bill Black's Tunes Online
Original gem-like Irish trad compositions.
"All who court the Muses can hardly hope to produce
an unbroken string of masterpieces."
(submitted on April 12th 2007 by Random_humour)
Blarney Stone Pub
Probably the finest downloadable free session tunebook I have come across. (requires acrobat reader)
(submitted on October 2nd 2002 by Davetnova)
Breizh Partitions
Tunes, information, bilingual:
French:
http://breizhpartitions.free.fr/fr/index.php
English:
http://breizhpartitions.free.fr/en/index.php
"I'm looking for any traditionnal score, wherever it comes from (Celtic countries but also the rest of the world) and for any instrument. If you have some to send me, please contact me so that I can upload them on this website."
~ Étienne ANDRÉ, student in the INSA in Rennes, France
(submitted on July 22nd 2005 by ceolachan)
breizh partitions
It's a briton website with celtic (and other traditional styles) sheetmusics,downloads , forum...
(submitted on December 22nd 2006 by celtiberian)
Breizh Partitions
Free celtic music scores website.
Many languages - french, spanish, english, german. (And one more, but I don't know which is it :) )
(submitted on July 15th 2007 by MBAC)
Breizh Partitions
Gives the musical notation for some Celtic as well as other music.
(submitted on January 3rd 2010 by John Whyte)
British Library Sound Archive
A searchable index of various music and sound genres. If you're in the UK you can visit, otherwise you can order copies of recordings online, and there are plans to make more sounds available directly online. N.B. be fuzzy in your searches then narrow them down e.g. start with "Darach" if looking for Darach Ó Cathain.
(submitted on January 10th 2006 by Just a person)
Ceili House Band Tunes
A collection of tunes played by the "Ceili House Band". The site also has information about the band.
(submitted on June 5th 2001 by Jeremy)
ceolas
the home of celtic music on the internet, since 1994. Ceolas houses the largest online collection of information on celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites.
(submitted on May 20th 2003 by bunyip)
Chordie
www.chordie.com is really about songs and their chords, but one can set up the page for mandolin/banjo etc in stead of guitar. One can even change the key up or down and the chord pictures etc change to suit.
Mostly about songs but I find it instructive. And it's FREE!!
Peter
(submitted on October 20th 2008 by Peter O'Connor)
Chris Walshaw's Abc Tune Index
This site is already referred to as an abc tutorial/reference site but it also has over 23,000 tunes in abc on it !
(submitted on March 28th 2007 by domnull)
Clips and Snips
A site with mp3-files of tunes. Mainly played on whistle, as this is a site for whistlers. There seem to be some connection to Chiff and Fipple, but anyone is welcome to contribute with new recordings
(submitted on June 24th 2002 by lars)
Co. Champaign (2008)
This is the current (August 2008) home of the Co. Champaign Irish Tune Collections On-Line, now in three much improved volumes. The previously posted link hasn't been live since maybe '05.
(submitted on August 7th 2008 by JSC_from_IL)
Comhaltas Ceoltir Eireann - Some Session Tunes To Learn
The tunes on this page are available in ABC and MIDI format. The MIDI tunes are set slow for beginners.
Comhaltas Ceoltir Eireann
32 Belgrave Square, Monkstown
County Dublin, Ireland
Home page: http://www.comhaltas.com/index.htm
(submitted on September 23rd 2001 by jp)
Composition Competition - UCC Tradsoc
The Tune Composition Competition is a very special event in the Tradsoc’s calander. It gives traditional musicians a chance to express their own music in a unique & personal way. The competition will be adjudicated in a confidential manner to ensure a fair result on the presentation day. We hope that many of you will enter as this is a unique opportunity to allow your music to be heard in the public setting. Currently in it’s seventh year running, we look forward to seeing an abundance of participation in this new & innovative musical venture.
(submitted on December 15th 2006 by shane c)
Comprehensive fiddle site
LOADS of links to fiddle sites in a well laid out format. Could become your 'index' of fiddle site favourites.
(submitted on May 4th 2007 by domnull)
Contemplator
Carolan tunes, Child Ballads, Taylor's Traditional Tunebook, sound files, lyrics, etc. Compiled by Lesley Nelson and Barry Taylor.
(submitted on September 20th 2001 by aliceflynn)
County Champaign Irish Tune Collection
Since 1993, County Champaign in the state of Illinois on the New Island has been home to Irish traditional music sessions held in a variety of venues. This online PDF downloadable tune book is a collection of the most commonly played tunes at Champaigne County sessions.
(submitted on September 20th 2001 by aliceflynn)
Cranford Publications
A website with lots of ABC tunes and information on recordings.
Alot of Cape Breton musicians.
(submitted on March 10th 2004 by Angela Michelle)
Cylinder Preservation And Digitization Project
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Special Collections
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
~ WAV & MP3 files of digitized cylinder recordings from the early 20th Century... The link will take you to their search page and you can enter the name of an artist, for example 'John Kimmel', or an instrument, or the title of a tune or tune type...
(submitted on March 5th 2007 by ceolachan)
Dan Beimborn's Virtual Tunebook
A nice collection of tunes.
(submitted on June 5th 2001 by Jeremy)
Davy Roger's Traditional Irish guitar TABs and MIDIs
Loads of excellent transcriptions of Jigs, Reels, Hornpipes and others into Guitar TAB format using the TablEdit/TEFview software (links provided).
Don't be put off by the psychadelic home page - the site content is second to none.
This is the best site I've seen yet, for any fingerpicking guitarists playing Irish music.
(submitted on January 1st 2003 by Concertina Player)
Donegal fiddle tradition > External Links
Larry Sanger has put together this list of youtube videos featuring Donegal fiddlers, and posted the address to the IRTRAD mailing list.
(submitted on December 7th 2007 by Martin_BC)
DublinTrad Live
Some tunes recorded around the ol\' fair city and (soon to come) beyond. Gives an idea of what to expect if you come to Dublin in search of a session.
(submitted on December 6th 2004 by redcyclops)
Eric Foxley's Music Database
Some tunes and some bizarre statistical analyses of tunes eg
"We analyse for each category (jigs, reels, etc) of tune
the lengths of all the notes, and show the tunes in order of average note length, with histogram percentage counts of the different note lengths. The columns are
the number of notes
the average note length
the percentage of notes less than or equal to a demi-semi-quaver
the percentage of notes more than this length up to a dotted demi-semi-quaver
the percentage of notes more than this length up to a semi-quaver
the percentage of notes more than this length up to a dotted semi-quaver
...
the average length of the last notes of each bar
the ratio of the average note length to the average last-note-of-the-bar lenth
the key of the original
the title
the pitches of all note relative to the key the tune is in, and show the percentage of notes at each pitch
the number of notes
the average note length
....
the percentage of notes on the fourth of the key (i.e. F w.r.t the key of C)
the percentage of notes on the root of the key
the percentage one fifth up
the percentage one tone up
....
the key of the original
the title
the pitch intervals between consecutive notes, and showthe percentages of the number of times each interval occurs
the number of notes
the average note length
....
the percentage of intervals up one note
the percentage of unison (or octave) note intervals
the percentage of intervals down one note
the percentage of intervals down two notes
....
the key of the original
the title etc"
(submitted on August 20th 2007 by domnull)
FARNE - Folk Archive Resource North East
An excellent and unique resource, providing a large amount of tunes (chiefly from North East England) available to view for free as scanned images of the original manuscripts. If only more collections were made so easily available as this! Tune manuscripts include: the Henry Atkinson MS, The William Vickers MS, Joseph Crawhall, Lionel Wiship, C.J. Surtees, John Peacock (Northumbrian Smallpipes), John Ridley, John Nichol, etc etc etc.
(submitted on May 24th 2008 by fynnjamin)
Fiddle Case
A wesite for tune transcriptions.
(submitted on March 11th 2007 by anastasiadesroches)
Fiddle Music of Donegal
Online version of the tunebook "Fiddle Music of Donegal," which was compiled by Japanese fiddler, Misao Komatsuzaki. It's full of nice tunes which cannot be found in any other site or tune database. (Ignore the distracting ads.)
Tunebook Cover: http://misaok.hp.infoseek.co.jp/fmod/do_book.html
Tunebook Part 2: http://misaok.hp.infoseek.co.jp/fmod/fmod2.html
Sources: http://misaok.hp.infoseek.co.jp/fmod/cd.html
(submitted on April 20th 2003 by slainte)
Fiddle Tunes
Just what it says. Fiddle tunes in ABC format.
(submitted on June 5th 2001 by Jeremy)
FiddleFork Online
Brand new Fiddle players wesbite designed for the exchange of fiddle tunes, news, events, information and anything fiddle related. The site is maintained by fiddlers and has many fiddle tunes available for download. Anyone can post information, links, reviews and news to the site. Sign up anytime.
(submitted on March 9th 2002 by FiddleFork)
Fiddler's Companion
"The Fiddler's Companion is a huge encyclopedia of fiddle tunes from the Celtic, British and American traditions, created by Andrew Kuntz. Most tunes contain notes and anecdotes, references to published or recorded versions, and several thousand have abc-format tunes included."
(submitted on May 28th 2002 by glauber)
fife and drum stuff
fife and drum tunes in pdf and midi, as played by the sudbury ancient fyfe & drum companie and the menotomy minutemen.
the site also contains historical anecdotes relating the the sudbury companies of militia and minute, as well as private data concerning the company of fifers and drummers.
(submitted on January 26th 2010 by jdmoylan)
Folk Tune Finder
Excellent resource, but really a search engine. Search for folk tunes by title or by typing in the notes on the keyboard. Comes up with results of instances of the tune or phrase of a tune from all over t'interweb, giving a link to either just the dots or to the original website it appeared on. Yes this has appeared in a discussion, but I thought I'd post it here.
(submitted on July 4th 2008 by fynnjamin)
Folktrax
The Fiddler's Tune Books ed by Peter Kennedy
- The editor began recording traditional musicians in the 1950s and has made them available on 400 CDs. Dave Mallinson has published The Fiddlers Tunebooks - five books (A4 size) with 200 tunes in each according to their rhythmical use for dancing: Hornpipes, Reels, Jigs, Slips and Waltzes.
(submitted on May 21st 2004 by scratcher)
Free Tablatures
Many different tabs of tunes and songs of many different types, from many different people, using Tabledit.
(submitted on May 20th 2002 by Zina Lee)
G8INA's Music and Links
Some of these sites have given their permission for me to host a local Mirror, ie, a Zipped file of all the MIDI or ABC tunes, GIFs or Lyrics. Please visit the sites before downloading the Zip files. This is very important as the original site gives much more than just the tunes. History, Heritage, Philosophy and Musical Theory are all to be found. Make the most of these superb sites, they are so very interesting ! Grateful thanks go to Basil Hendricks, Barry Taylor, Lesley Nelson, Richard Robinson, Seppo Niemi (Zaphod), Michael Loehr, Bernie Stocks, Mike Simpson, HugMonster (Ben Pilot), Robert & Susan Blakeley, Niklas Hakansson, Kipp Doolan, Alan Dawson, Craig Cockburn, Liam, Ron Clarke, Cliff Moses, Allen Garvin and everyone else involved !
As you can see, more and more of these sites have closed down, leaving this site as the only source for their tunes. Very sad :(
(submitted on May 3rd 2009 by TangyFM)
GEST Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador
The Internet's largest archive of the greatest songs of Canada's youngest province, Newfoundland and Labrador, with thousands of traditional and copyrighted lyrics, hundreds of MIDI files and guitar chords, as well as scores of music sheets, biographical and historical notations, and individual artist and songwriter listing pages. No membership required. All copyrights must be honored. No HOT linking permitted.
(submitted on March 28th 2008 by GEST)
Giblitz Fancy
A book of 92 original tunes composed by Paul Gitlitz. The range of styles include Irish, Old Timey, Klezmer, Eastern European, Mariachi, New England Contra, Bossa, and Swing. The intent is that most be used for Contra Dance so the normal range of jigs and reels are present as well as polkas, hornpipes, waltzes, and swing tunes. The Book also includes aires written to honor friends who've past or moved away. I have been honored by having some of the tunes in the book recorded: Flying Home to Shelley was recorded on David DiGiuseppe's album "Welcome to Heaven", The Elftones "The Moon and the Sun", Lift Ticket on their new album, "New Balance", String Beings on "Being Reel" and Rodney Miller on "Flying On Home". Patty's Journey Home was recorded by Rodney Miller on "Airdance". The last Minute Polka was co written and recorded by Gordon Stobbe on his album "Small World" Many of these tunes and some new ones destined for Book II will also appear in an album I'm currently planing to record this summer.
(submitted on May 26th 2004 by glitchless)
Gotlandstoner
Collection of traditional tunes from the Baltic island of Gotland (Sweden), maintained by Erik Ronström.
(submitted on February 9th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian)
Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
This facsimile reprint of the 1905 original is a noteworthy glimpse into the world of American country dance tunes at the turn of the 20th century. The book includes 200 tunes of Irish and Scottish origin, plus a fair number of vaudevillian and classic American dance tunes. The tunes are set with both treble melody and a bass clef for piano accompaniment. The tune book is a historical foundation representing the roots of today's fiddle tune repertoire. It "maintains a distinguished place in the American fiddle music archive and is a must-have tune book," writes Master Fiddler Rodney Miller in the new Foreword.
(submitted on May 6th 2009 by Ut tempor vitae)
Henrik Norbeck's Abc Tunes
A vast collection of tunes. There's also some very useful information on ABC in general.
(submitted on June 5th 2001 by Jeremy)
Heron Island tune book
Around 50 tunes - mainly trad, mainly English/Irish/Scottish/Welsh - used by ceilidh band based in Reading, England.
Tunes are generally given as 3 scores (melody/harmony + guitar/tab + bass/tab) & MIDI.
Developed by markplucker of this parish.
(submitted on March 4th 2010 by Markplucker)
Identitairs quebecois
A web site dedicated to french-canadian traditionnal music (repertoire and general information)
(submitted on September 15th 2009 by identitairs)
International Music Score Project
IMSLP believe that music should be something that is easily accessible for everyone. For this purpose they have created a classical music library to provide music scores free of charge to anyone with internet access, with several other projects in planning. IMSLP is also entirely collaborative, and all contributions are greatly welcome.
The number of scores is currently in the tens of thousands. A main feature is that all the scores are copyright-expired.
(submitted on March 16th 2009 by lazyhound)
Internet Archive
There are some great old gems of audio to be found here, including in all formats, WAV & MP3, etc... For a few examples ~ / ~
Michael Coleman: ~
http://www.archive.org/details/Coleman ~
http://www.archive.org/details/MichaelColemanKidontheMountain ~
http://www.archive.org/details/MichaelColemanHarvestHome
~ / ~
Paddy Killoran: ~
http://www.archive.org/details/PaddyKilloranCherishtheLadies ~
http://www.archive.org/details/PaddyKilloranAndPaddySweenyGannonsFavorite ~
http://www.archive.org/details/PaddyKilloranAndHisPrideOfErinOrchestraDublinLassiesReel
~ / ~
There are some treasures to be found. I was sure I'd already added this but couldn't find it in doing a search, but other things I know I'd placed in 'Links' also don't come up in a search... Enjoy... ;-)
(submitted on January 28th 2008 by ceolachan)
Irish Folk Songs
Lyrics with Chords for some Irish Songs
(submitted on May 21st 2003 by Brad Maloney)
Irish Heather Collection
This is a ABC collection of tunes played at the Irish Heather session in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Tunes are included if they are not commmonly available in other collections.
(submitted on October 11th 2004 by fiddletech)
Irish Traditional Music Archive
The Irish Traditional Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource centre for the traditional song, instrumental music and dance of Ireland.
It is a public not-for-profit facility which promotes public education in Irish traditional music through its own activities and its support for the activities of others.
(submitted on October 26th 2005 by Ptarmigan)
JC's ABC Tune Finder
This site has just about every tune you've ever heard of listed in five or six different formats and in various settings and interpretations. A truly massive archive for when you just can't seem to find "Gorbachev's farewell to Lithuania" ANYWHERE!
(submitted on June 28th 2001 by Kerri Brown)
JC's tune finder
An alternate URL for JC's.
(submitted on February 1st 2005 by MikeJV)
Joe Liddy - the Leitrim Fiddler
THE LEITRIM FIDDLER
Tunes by Joe Liddy
ABC version by Bill Black (Jan.2006)
(submitted on April 16th 2009 by geoffwright)
Joe MacLean Collection Of Scottish And Cape Breton Music
This major collection contains many early books of Scottish music and hand noted music of some of the best fiddlers. Joe MacLean was a well-known Cape Breton fiddler who composed and performed for many years. He was known as a collector and had a genuine interest in helping young fiddlers learn the old ways and forge their own path. This website provides an index to the collection, capable of being sorted by tune name, book, publisher, or author, and is available as downloads in both Adobe Acrobat pdf or Microsoft Excel file formats.
(submitted on May 6th 2009 by Ut tempor vitae)
John Lamancusa's 'Old Time fiddle tunes'
Includes quite a few fiddle tunes I've not seen elsewhere.
(submitted on June 24th 2005 by domnull)
John Of The Greeny Cheshire Way
abc format tunes "This collection is mainly taken from books dating from 1705 to 1816 and for the most part is concerned with the old type of hornpipe which was usually in 3/2 or 9/4. This musical form was very popular, especially in the north-west and has relatives in Northumberland, Wales and Scotland, where it was known as the "double" hornpipe..."
(submitted on September 20th 2001 by aliceflynn)
johnnytroll
Play guitar north weasten pennsylvana just another old holler boy passed 50 still wearen jeans
(submitted on February 5th 2010 by johnnytroll)
Juneberry78s.com: Early American Roots Music
"This is a Web-Site for Collectors of American Roots Music. We feature Old-Time Strings Bands, Ballads & Breakdowns, Early Blues & Gospel, some Early Jazz, Vintage Country Gospel, Early Bluegrass and various Ethnic Musics played by immigrants to America. Most of this material was originally recorded in the 1920s through the early 1950s and was first issued on 78 RPM Records."
This is another site that has digitized some great old 78s for our listening pleasure...
Irish ~ http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenToIrishDance.htm
(submitted on March 5th 2007 by ceolachan)
Kitchen Musician
Mostly for hammered dulcimer folks. Here you can find tunes, jokes, dulcimer history, and buy books.
(submitted on January 15th 2003 by fearuin)
le blogue tradquébec
This is a blog about the french canadian traditionnal music or "musique traditionnelle du Québec" . This blog is produce by Pascal Gemme from the group Genticorum.
(submitted on January 20th 2007 by Ticasse)
Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
A searchable collection of over 29,000 pieces of sheet music from 1780 to 1960. An image of the cover and each page of the music is retrievable, if published before 1923 and in the public domain.
(submitted on September 20th 2001 by aliceflynn)
Luton and Bedford Lambeg Drumming Club
Ulster Scots / Scots Irish Fifing Music and Lambeg Drumming Club in Luton England.
(submitted on May 22nd 2006 by luton-lambeg)
Lyrics Download
A very useful website with the lyrics of over half-a-million songs submitted by its members. The lyrics may be easily downloaded, as I have recently done with the song "Nottingham Ale", which is sung to the jig tune Lillibullero (on the Tunes database).
Trevor
(submitted on November 17th 2004 by lazyhound)
Mal and Jo's Home Page
Quite a mixed bag here - though a site worth a visit. Some session photos and recordings from sessions. Also includes tunes in ABC and midi format for Irish/Scottish, Shetland and European/Israeli tunes.
(submitted on January 25th 2003 by Concertina Player)
Manx Music Database
Database of sources of all Manx music (Church, Traditional, Popular and Concert). Included recordings, dances, some sheet music (soon to be updated) and loads of info about Manx music and dance.
(submitted on December 22nd 2007 by Cinzia Curtis)
mckennas irish music site
This site contains among other irish things, a tune collection, not so many standards, but newer tunes, not often played tunes, and in my opinion many interresting tunes.
(submitted on February 17th 2007 by ceili)
Melodyhound - Tune Recognition and Search
The name-this-tune.com web site has a Java tool for recognizing and finding a tune if you whistle the melody. If you remember the tune but are stumped on the name of it, this site may be the way to find it. You can submit tunes missing from their database.
(submitted on September 17th 2002 by aliceflynn)
Northumbrian Minstrelsy
This page links to an abc file of the Small-Pipe Tunes section of the Northumbrian Minstrelsy.
(submitted on June 16th 2006 by lildogturpy)
Noteworthy Composer Format Tune-Book
This site has a large collection of tunes in NWC format, which is the format for the music shareware NoteWorthy Composer. If you use this software, this is the place to go! If you don't, check it out - NoteWorthy allows you to write, print and hear sheet music in a very user-friendly, nice-looking environment.
(submitted on November 1st 2001 by JeffK627)
O'Neill's Music Of Ireland
Complete ABC transcriptions of three of the Chief's books: "Music of Ireland", "Dance Music of Ireland" and "Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody". These are also indexed in the J.C. Tune Finder, but sometimes you just want to check out a tune in "The Book", so here they are.
(submitted on October 28th 2002 by glauber)
O'Regan's Tunebook
A growing collection of tunes focusing on those played at the Wednesday night session at O'Regan's pub in Montreal. Web based format with abc and pdf available for download as well as a download of the entire site for offline browsing.
(submitted on March 8th 2006 by lildogturpy)
Old And Rare, Bruce Olson's Site
Roots of Folk: Old English, Scots, and Irish Songs and Tunes
(submitted on September 20th 2001 by aliceflynn)
Old Music Project
A massive online resource, with music, ABC, Midi and noteworthy composer downloads.
Has O'Neill's (the 1850), Complete Carolan, Allan's Irish Fiddler, Playford's, amongst others.
Bookmark this one!
(submitted on March 17th 2006 by Wurzel)
Old Timey Fiddle Tunes
It's very good
(submitted on December 3rd 2007 by D.J.F.)
OSSIAN USA
Importers of Traditional Irish Music in print, sound & vision. Tunebooks, Songbooks, Music History books, instructional books, companion tapes & CDs, CD-ROMS, DVDs, videos and Dance materials.
(submitted on June 26th 2005 by mary lou philbin)
Paddy Murphy - In Good Hands
CD launch site for the field recordings of concertina pioneer Paddy Murphy.
(submitted on March 13th 2008 by RogueFiddler)
Paddy O'Brien's Sets
One of the best online collections of tunes online, compiled by the folks at Ceolas.org from sheet music found in Paddy O'Brien's desk after death.
(submitted on January 30th 2002 by Brad Maloney)
Pay The Reckoning
Collection of original tunes, Reviews etc.
(submitted on September 22nd 2002 by Ptarmigan)
Practice Studio
A suite of tools for the developing fiddler.
Notation, tablature and MIDI files to help the developing fiddler build his/her skills.
I began creating these files for my fiddle students to help them along with the tunes. I was suprised at how much they enjoyed them, so I decided to put the files on the web to make them available to others. Practice Studio has been up almost a year and has had 160,000 hits to date.
All the best,
Scott Donaldson
(submitted on April 11th 2005 by scottythefiddler)
Profs Irish Music
Yet another site with some great tunes
(submitted on July 1st 2002 by Alanmmcgregor)
Randy Miller Prints
IRISH TRADITIONAL FIDDLE MUSIC by Randy Miller and Jack Perron - Second Edition by Randy Miller "Frankly, it's the best Irish tune collection issued for many a long year." --Geoff Wallis*
New and expanded edition, released on St. Patrick's Day 2006, of the landmark collection of Irish fiddle tunes first published in 1977. ITFM has helped introduce several generations of American musicians to the beauty and delights of Irish fiddle tunes.
(submitted on May 30th 2006 by Ptarmigan)
Rare Tunes
This is a collection of very old recordings. Mostly Scottish, but includes some old Irish stuff too, including Leo Rowsome, Michael Coleman and James Morrison. The recordings range from near-studio quality to crowded and noisy house sessions, from digital media to old bits of tape to 78 rpm discs.
(submitted on September 15th 2008 by bogman)
Rêve éveillé
This is the website of Marc Lemonnier, a Cévénol musician that's put a remarkable number (391) of tunes up in his or traditional arrangements.
If you're looking for music from all over France and elsewhere, this might be a place to check out. The accent is on Occitan music, creating a link from Galicia to Italy. Here's M. Lemonnier's intro to his music pages (in French):
Ce site est dédié à ceux qui jouent des musiques traditionnelles ou dérivées. Il propose des fichiers MIDI, partitions et parfois mp3 de musiques du monde, généralement arrangés pour plusieurs instruments.
(submitted on February 19th 2008 by Fanning)
Renwickmacarthur
Great Scottish tunes
(submitted on October 28th 2009 by Premierflute)
Richard Robinson's Tunebook
Masses and masses of tunes from ll over the world.
(submitted on August 26th 2002 by Nutty Nessie)
Roots Music Listening Room
Sound files of old recordings are on The Roots Music Listening Room, including Irish dance music and Cape Breton music. You can hear old records of Michael Coleman, James Morrison, and more. Scroll down the page past American Old Time, Blues, Jazz, Gospel, Cajun, and Mexican to get to the Irish and Cape Breton sound clips.
(submitted on October 28th 2002 by aliceflynn)
Roots Music Listening Room
Great collection of old recordings taken from 78's. Lots of great old Irish stuff and Cape Breton too. There was a previous link for this site but it's broken. Well worth a look and listen.
(submitted on December 12th 2008 by bogman)
Ross's Music Page
Ross Anderson: "One of my hobbies is traditional music. I am interested in the evolution of folk music in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This was a period of rapid change; the Scots, Irish and Northumbrian traditions developed into their current form, as did our three countries' pipes and many other instruments."
~ ~ ~ "Lots of great old rusty audio and great work he's done in collecting old manuscript music." ~ Kevin Rietmann, a member here ~ ~ ~
Ross has scanned and made available a number of important manuscripts for download here, from the 18th Century to scholarship by Allan MacDonald and Iain MacInnes. Here are some of the contents and headings ~ ~ ~
/ * John Sutherland's manuscript from about 1785
/ * 'Celtic Melodies' were books published by an unknown author, possibly from Islay, with the second volume published in 1830.
/ * 'The Millar Highland Manuscript' was written by Robert Millar, probably 1820-1845 ~
etc... ~ ~ ~
& other resources ~ Allan MacDonald's Thesis / Iain MacInnes' Thesis ~ / ~
Highland Pipe manuscripts and recordings ~ six of the most important sources of pibroch ~ & MP3s too... ~ / ~
Pastoral/union/uilleann and Northumbrian pipe music ~ / ~
Irish music recordings ~ / ~
Links ~ / ~ ~ ~
I was sure this had already been added here, and if it is, sorry for the repeat. This is a great compilation of resources... Thanks Ross, much appreciated...
(submitted on February 5th 2010 by ceolachan)
Scotchsnap.com
Old Favourites and New Contemporary Scottish Sheet Music -Direct from Source - All Priced at Pennies a Page.
Listen, View and Download Direct to your Printer.
Traditional, Gaelic Song, Jazz, Classical and much more. A Diverse Range of Genre and Instrumentation available.
Composers from Scotland can Publish their Sheet Music Scores on scotchsnap.com and Earn Royalties from Sales.
(submitted on September 15th 2007 by Isabel Paterson)
Seolta Music
Seolta Music based in Ireland features many Irish melodies in arrangements for voice and all kinds of instruments. 'Dueling Violins' for trad fiddle and piano from Feet of Flames is now available on www.seoltamusic.com
(submitted on February 11th 2009 by Seoltamusic)
Session Tune Sets
A handy site which has collections of reels and jigs and others in sets of 3 tunes. All tunes are shown in GIF format, though it's a pity there are no MIDIs.
(submitted on January 25th 2003 by Concertina Player)
Sessioneer
This is quite similar to The Session. Registered users can contribute tunes to the tune collection. There's also a useful listing of sessions.
(submitted on June 5th 2001 by Jeremy)
Sheffield University Ceilidh Society
A good selection of tunes which you can arrange into a personalised songbook. I like the feature whereby the index created includes the first few bars of each tune - a useful 'prompt'
(submitted on July 1st 2005 by domnull)
Shelta Tunes
Selection of tunes (abc, gif) played by an Irish-music band from France: lots of Vallely-Bros. stuff, among others.
(submitted on December 2nd 2003 by JHowley)
Shetland Fiddler
I quote -
"Welcome to 'Shetland Fiddler'
a site devoted to
the music of the Shetland Islands"
(submitted on June 17th 2005 by domnull)
Shetland Music discography
I quote from Nigel Gatherer's site-
"A description and/or history of Shetland fiddle music is best served elsewhere, but I think there is an interest in the recorded output of Shetland fiddlers. Therefore, I have decided to attempt a discography, startung with earlier vinyl records. I'm sure there will be many gaps, but I believe in making a start with any ambition, so here goes!"
(submitted on September 27th 2005 by domnull)
Shooglenifty
Scottish band Shooglenifty have a good site and have put the ABC for some of their tunes on it
(submitted on March 23rd 2007 by domnull)
Snowyowls Tunes
My 1st attempt at a tunes site. I am trying to assemble a collection of my variation/harmonies etc. More will be added over time.
(submitted on April 27th 2005 by snowyowl)
The Acoustic Music Archive
Find lyrics and chords for folk songs, discover their origins and listen to recordings of them.
(submitted on December 18th 2007 by peterjwebster)
The Black Book ~ Peterborough Rendition
"Known as The Black Book, this collection of mostly Irish tunes came to me in the late 1980's.
At that time a bunch of us living in Peterborough Ontario became enthralled with traditional music and were hungry for tunes, especially tunes played by the experienced session players from beyond our little Patch.
Into this group of musical friends came The Black Book via Nedd Kenney who got it from Kim Vincent in P.E.I. around 1988. Hence the “Peterborough Rendition”"
(submitted on June 14th 2009 by Ptarmigan)
The Dunn Family Collection
The Dunn Family Collection
"Travel back to early twentieth century Milwaukee and explore the life of Irish emigrant Michael J. Dunn, including thirty-two unique wax cylinder recordings produced by Francis O’Neill of Chicago. The collection’s audio recordings, photographs, music manuscripts, and other artifacts tell the story of the Dunn family, along with other famed Irish musicians of the time."
(submitted on August 14th 2010 by ceolachan)
The Mudcat Cafe
This site excels in having the lyrics to thousands of folk songs, Irish and otherwise. Many of the songs are available in midi format as well.
(submitted on August 31st 2001 by JeffK627)
The Plumber Of Hornpipes
Here you can get Ed Reavy tunes (i think all of them) in abc format
(submitted on May 10th 2002 by donnchad)
The Plumber of Hornpipes
The collected compositions of Ed Reavy in abc format, as well as ordering information for the collected compositions in paper and Joseph Reavy's recordings of the Reavy tunes on cassette.
Poorly designed, so navigation of the site is difficult, but there's a lot of Reavy.
(submitted on February 3rd 2008 by Jon Kiparsky)
The Reel Book
The website for a collection of tunes transcribed from the recorded performances of 190 Irish musicians from 117 albums.
The book has taken ten years to put together. On the Search Database page you can search by Title, Type, Musician, Instrument, Group, or Album.
(submitted on October 1st 2005 by Jeremy)
The Tune Web
Collection of many traditional and some composed tunes, in GIF format.
(submitted on July 30th 2004 by rfdarsie)
the village music project
Hundreds of tunes freely available in ABC format from the manuscripts and collections of various English musicians. An astonishing acheivement, and growing!
A study of English Social Musicians from the 17th century onwards from their manuscripts. This music project is primarily interested in the traditional social dance music of England - where it came from, where it went to, who it travelled with and where it is now. We are intending to fill in a gap in the ethno-musicological research spectrum and not duplicate the research in which other people are engaged.
(submitted on May 24th 2008 by fynnjamin)
The Virtual Session
Several sets of tunes - recorded live - made to play along with. Great practice site.
(submitted on September 8th 2001 by jp)
Traditional Irish Music - Learning Resources
A collection of some 170, and growing, traditional Irish Tunes. So what's the difference: See and hear the sheet music at the same time using the Myriad Music Browser plug-in; adjust the tempo, add in a metronome, print it out.
Plus links to free recordings of each tune on the web such as Comhaltas, YouTube, BBC Virtual Session etc. 100 recordings of 100 tunes on flute or whistle from the East Antrim Traditional Music School Tune Book. Sheet music is enhanced with alphabetic notation (D E F# G etc) for those who don' t read sheet music.
Install the free Web Browser plug-in (Links provided) and away you go. Also provides, abc, midi, mp3 and pdf formats for each tune.
(submitted on October 12th 2009 by bpundyke)
Traditional Irish Music From Robert Blakeley
A nice collection of tunes, but beware the embedded midi files.
(submitted on June 5th 2001 by Jeremy)
Traditional Music Library
This site is full of music. LOT'S OF MUSIC!
Mostly Irish but it also has traditional old time, some bluegrass and other standards.
(submitted on February 17th 2002 by flyinfiddler)
TradTune.com
A community-created online database of traditional, public domain tunes from the United Kingdom, Ireland, and elsewhere. Offers sheet music printing and playback features, along with one-click tune transposition, MP3 track previews, and more.
(submitted on August 26th 2010 by JonHall)
Tradtunes.com
An online shop for traditional music. You can buy whole albums or individual tracks. There's a good range of releases on sale.
Like the iTunes music store, tracks cost 79p and albums cost 7.99 (so you can make quite a saving on longer albums). You can listen to a 30 second sample of any track.
Unlike iTunes, many of the tracks (though not all) are available in MP3 format rather than some proprietary DRM format (some tracks are in WMP... yuck!).
The site also provides a streaming radio show that can be listened to using Quicktime.
(submitted on October 18th 2004 by Jeremy)
Transcriptions Of Traditional Irish Music
The site claims:
"Available immediately is a series of complete note-for-note transcriptions (exact grace notes, poppings, bowings, notes on fingerings) of traditional Irish music played by the best Irish musicians on available recorded media. Precisely transcribed by a composer, in proper musical notation as standardized during the 20th century. No cranning, rolling, or other ambiguous symbols. Actual rhythms (this does not mean complicated) and actual notes and grace notes are written out exactly as they occur. So you can stop guessing and learn how it's done."
(submitted on September 19th 2002 by glauber)
Tullochgorm
This site focuses on the history and tradition of Scottish celtic music, and regions of North America where the Scottish influence is strong, for instance, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. This site answers various questions about the music, the composers and musicians, recordings and how to get them. In addition, a large section of links is provided.
(submitted on December 29th 2003 by Jim Stetson)
Tune collections on the Internet: Yale / Mkoth
A comprehensive index of (and links to) web collections of tunes.
(submitted on November 16th 2007 by domnull)
Tune Of The Month
A similar idea to The Session; a new tune every month in ABC format.
(submitted on June 5th 2001 by Jeremy)
TuneDB
Richard Moon's TuneDB. traditional music database. Tunes available in ABC format, Postscript and Midi file.
(submitted on September 30th 2003 by Agnes Nutter)
Tunedb
a great website where you can search for tunes using ABC, or by their names.
(submitted on August 13th 2008 by Paul Clesham)
TuneFull
A site for new tunes
(submitted on December 11th 2005 by dafydd)
Ulstersongs - John Moulden
Ulstersongs: Many, many field recordings.
Song books and tapes, talks and presentations on aspects of the Ulster song and music tradition, making available information and songs to inquirers, performing and encouraging the performance of songs, especially traditional ones.
(submitted on September 21st 2001 by aliceflynn)
Vashon Celtic Players
This has a lot of standard session tunes, with scores and midis. We use it for our local session group here on Vashon Island in Washington state, for distributing new tunes to work on, announcements, etc.
Enjoy!
(submitted on October 4th 2007 by Steve Austin)
Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer
A couple of dozen home-grown tunes for Scottish smallpipes from this duo.
(submitted on January 14th 2007 by geoffwright)
Virtual Gramophone
An amazing archive of recordings available for listening or download as RealAudio or MP3... Here follows the links, beginning with homepages and finishing with a few examples ~
Library and Archives Canada
The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
Discographical information & audio files: RA RealAudio & MP3
Library and Archives Canada
http://www.collectioncanada.ca/
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/
Le Gramophone Virtuel / The Virtual Gramophone:
Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
http://www.collectioncanada.ca/gramophone/
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone/
Introduction
http://www.collectioncanada.ca/gramophone/index-e.html
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone/index-e.html
Collection Search
http://www.collectioncanada.ca/gramophone/m2-5000-e.html
Collection Search ~ complete digital collection - sorted by performer
Gigue De Touristes
A
http://www.collectioncanada.ca/gramophone/m2-9003a-e.html
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone/m2-9003a-e.html
Q
http://www.collectioncanada.ca/gramophone/m2-9002q-e.html
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone/m2-9002q-e.html
A few MP3s as examples
"Reel De L'aveugle"
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/m2/f7/14026.mp3
"Quadrille Quadrille français"
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/13937.mp3
"Quadrille des Montagnards"?
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/14599.mp3
(submitted on January 28th 2008 by ceolachan)
Wandering Whistler
Nice tune library from Greg Mahan; laid out in .gif files, ready for printing. (Scroll to bottom of page to see tune library links.)
(submitted on April 5th 2004 by knockwool)
Welsh Traditional Music
My webpage (Which I hope will do the same for WTM as thesession.org did for ITM) If you have any welsh: tunes, links, sessions, etc please visit!
(submitted on February 8th 2003 by Dafydd Monks)
whangee.blogspot.com
I post the best Irish/celtic videos I find on youtube.
(submitted on May 14th 2007 by whangee)
Wikimusica
Nice collection of various tunes...
(submitted on December 3rd 2007 by D.J.F.)
Wild Dismay
This is a nice little collection of tunes from a group that plays sessions somewhere out in Ohio... I really don't know much about them, but their site was my original source for celic tunes on the internet.
(submitted on February 24th 2003 by Air`leth)
Will Zarwell's Irish Accordion Discography
This site lists recorded musicians alphabetically, sometimes showing the key (in some cases even the make) of the box being played, and provides links to reviews, videos, and sound files. Musicians considering taking up the button box can use the sound files to compare and contrast the styles used on the differently keyed boxes.
(submitted on January 9th 2006 by अनिच्चा)
www.noteflight.com
'Free' On-line music score writing / importing /editing -- as a resource for music sharing.
Best looked at -to get the full idea of its uses /function.
Have submitted under 'Tune Collections' but its also, 'software' and a potential learning resource.
(submitted on June 22nd 2009 by Col Arco)
Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
I like to think of this site as "Mudcat with Dots."
Any song with a collected melody appears with said melody in a GIF format or with PostScript scores.
All the lyrics in Mudcat's '99 database are included.
Anyone interested Guitar chord voicings should check out the
"Chord finder" and "The Modal-matic" features.
(submitted on March 13th 2003 by Gra5ity)
Zouki's WebABC Collection
Collection of over 1800 Irish trad tunes from various sources.
(submitted on August 16th 2002 by Zouki)