These tunes were not originally checked by hand, so there may well be mistakes here and there. The Nottingham Music Format has a notation for repeating previous bars, so if this has been incorrectly handled you may find entire bars which are wrong - this will certainly be the case if you uploaded this collection before 12th October 1996. There are places where part labels are used not to mark a part but to write some other text above the stave. If you can't make sense of the abc, try looking at the source in the original database. This collection last uploaded on 20th June 2003.

Welcome to the Montreal Session Tunebook

This website is a resource for traditional music with a particular focus on music played in the Montreal sessions. This includes music in the Irish and Quebecois traditions as well as music from England, France and elsewhere. Many of the tunes are written as they are played in the sessions around the Montreal area and so might be slightly different from versions played elsewhere.

In addition we host several collections with more than 3000 tunes available as pdf sheet music, in abc format and midi files.

We do not have any recordings on the site, so if you are looking for mp3's of traditional music you are in the wrong place

Celtic or Irish sheet music -- want downloads? Let's start with "Francis O'Neill"? Celtic music today owes him a great debt -- he collected, published, and saved the sheet music for thousands of Celtic tunes, preserving them for musicians all over the world.

Born in Ireland in 1848, O'Neill emigrated to the United States as a teenager.. He worked as a rancher, a teacher, a Chicago policeman, and fathered ten children -- and also found time to play the flute!

O'Neill did not read music -- he played by ear -- but he became convinced of the value of saving Celtic tunes for future generations. With the help of a fiddling seargeant in the Chicago police department, he did so. He would play the tunes he had learned from other musicians -- and the sergeant would transcribe them into musical notation.

By his death in 1936, he had collected and transcribed nearly 3,500 tunes -- many of them dating back hundreds of years!

He eventually published eight books -- the three most popular being O'Neill's Music of Ireland, The Dance Music of Ireland, and Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melodies. The first volume is still in print -- but the other two are very hard to find (especially Waifs and Strays!) These three volumes contain over 3,000 popular Celtic Tunes!

We are pleased to present over 3,000 tunes from these three books for your free download pleasure. Most tunes are in PDF format; many include matching MIDI files. Note that you may have to alter the speed of the tune to suit your needs.

Curlew

der Erfinder der abc Notation!

sehr viele irische Stücke als midi und pdf

A number of historic tune collections have been transcribed to ABC notation, and most of them are mirrored at several places on the Web. Here are the collections that I have copies of:

Traditional Irish Music - Start and Title Index page
Celtic Music - 2900+ Scores, Guitar Tabs and Midis

Traditional Irish Music - Start and Title Index page
Celtic Music - 2900+ Scores, Mandolin Tabs and Midis

This database contains about 1200 folk melodies, mostly British & American. They mostly come from the repertoire over the years of Fred Folks Ceilidh Band, and are intended as music for dancing.

As far as I know, it is the only music database in existence which is searchable by musical content, see the browser. The tunes are stored as key-independent note sequences using an ASCII notation developed in the 1970s, and so can be analysed for a variety of purposes.

Tony's Celtic Music Pages

Proudly welcoming fellow Celtic music enthusiasts since 1998!

Diese Seite enthält 671 verschiedene kostenlose Noten, die 9744301 Mal seit November 2006 heruntergeladen wurden.

Irish Traditional Music Tune Index.
# Top 100 Tunes: The 100 most-recorded tunes.
# Top Ten nach Art der Melodie (Airs, Jigs, usw)
# Top Session Tunes
# Top 20 Session nach Art der Melodie (Airs, Jigs, usw)
# Top Ten Tunes für 1920, 1930 usw.

ohne Noten - die Noten muss man sich auf einer anderen Seite besorgen

Liste mit Reels, Jigs, Waltzes, Jazz & Rag, teilweise mit Noten

hier findet man eine Escuele de Timple, eine Schule für das Instrument Timple, eine Art 5-saitiger Ukulele aus Gran Canaria.

gibt es auch auf englisch!

'The establishment of the new Comhaltas Archive is a milestone in digitisation and democratisation for the international traditional Irish music community.'

— Niall Keegan, Course Director, MA Irish Traditional Music Performance, University of Limerick

Below is a listing of sheet music, mostly medieval, renaissance and folk. The first large pile is dance music geared mostly toward the SCA. The second pile is performance music, for solo or group. The third set is folk and miscellaneous bits that I've gathered over the years and felt able to put up here.

Downloadable Music
for Hammered Dulcimer, Fiddle, Tinwhistle, Recorder, etc.
Alpha List - Alphabetical by Title
Historical Celtic, English and American Tunes
Hammered Dulcimer Friendly and also playable on Fiddle, Mandolin, Tinwhistle, Recorder, Flute, etc.
Downloadable as sheet music GIF files or as MIDI files

slow Celtic airs and waltzes

Here is a collection of over 400 favorite traditional Irish, Scottish, and American fiddle tunes, harp pieces and bagpipe marches in standard notation with guitar chords. They have been gathered from both online and printed sources. Multiple versions of tunes have been included whenever possible so you may compare the variants. Most of these pages are illustrated with photos, engravings, and paintings.

Celtic or Irish sheet music -- want downloads? Let's start with "Francis O'Neill"? Celtic music today owes him a great debt -- he collected, published, and saved the sheet music for thousands of Celtic tunes, preserving them for musicians all over the world.

This is a collection of (mostly) traditional music to look at, listen to, or download at your convenience. The emphasis is on traditional Celtic tunes, but there are some others you may find interesting, as well. Sound files are General MIDI, and tempos are friendly, but not slow. Sheet music is in the GIF format; a few tunes are two pages long, so be sure to get both if you want the tune.

Cripple Creek * Country Waltz * East Tennessee Blues * Fire on the Mountain etc.

This library of electronically-produced music is intended as a learning aid - there is of course, no substitute for having a tune played by a traditional musician. There are probably hundreds of jigs suitable for accompanying rapper: those listed in this library are just a selection. However, tunes noted by Cecil J. Sharp in his books, the Sword Dances of Northern England (reprinted as ISBN 0 7158 1211 4) have been included, and are denoted by SDNE followed by the relevant book number(s).

slowplayers.org - basic tunes 2004 * 20 tunes as GIF or PDF

At the end of the year, 2007, Julie McGonigal hung up her crotchets and quavers after many years providing monthly tunes for the Folk Rag.
since then ALAN CRAIG has been pleased to provide this service for everyone. Thanks Alan!

Time to embark on a new, rewarding, sociable, leisure experience!!

Come and learn to play traditional music mainly from Ireland, England and Scotland........ - with me (Jill Elliot) .... and several others!

Individual fiddle lessons from scratch and group tune learning for any suitable melody instrument *** with sheet music, mandolin tabs and more.

Teilweise mit abc Noten

neue ABC Homepage mit ausführlicher Dokumentation (ABC Standard) und mehr

Auf dieser Website findet man viele Volkstänze aus dem Balkan als MP3 und auch mehr als 70 Tänze in Noten, dazu Videos und weitere Informationen. Sehr empfehlenswert!
Noten findet man unter Balkan Folk Dance -> Music scores

Bienvenue sur le site de danses, de chants de musiques traditionnelles et du groupe ESTRAD

-Animation de bals folks, concerts celtiques-

komplettes Buch als PDF für Sessions

Tolle Homepage mit vielen Videos / Audios und auch Noten von original irischer Musik - Jigs, Reels, Hornpipes

ABC tunes - enthält sehr viele Stücke und die kompletten Sammlungen von Neill etc. - tausende von tollen Stücken als PDF drucken oder als midi anhören.
*** Welcome to the Montreal Session website.

Each Wednesday night at 8-00pm O'Regan's pub hosts an Irish music session that welcomes musicians of all abilities. Enjoy playing in a friendly supportive environment.

Enjoy our growing collection of traditional folk songs which are available in a variety of formats (abc, png, pdf and MIDI) for viewing, printing and listening to.

auch mit Akkord-Diagrammen für Zupfinstrumente

Here's some Australian dance tunes to whet your appetite. They are tunes collected from Australian dance musicians and well worth keeping alive.

Irish music / sheet music online; als Grafik, ABC und auch zum anhören.