5. How can I find tunes on the internet? (Celtic Music)
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This article is from the Celtic Music FAQ, by Ceolas ceolas@celtic.stanford.edu with numerous contributions by others.
5. How can I find tunes on the internet? (Celtic Music)
The Digital Tradition
This giant database contains over 5000 lyrics and about 1700 tunes of
folksongs from around the world, including a fair amount of celtic-related
music. Versions for Unix, Mac and PC are available by FTP, but be warned,
the whole database takes up about 10 megabytes. It may also be searched
interactively by World Wide Web, which allows the tunes to be viewed and
played on the computer.
FTP: beta.xerox.com /pub/music
FTP: ftp.uwp.ed /pub/music/folk (not always working)
WWW: http://web2.xerox.com/digitrad
Maintainer Dick Greenhaus (digitrad@world.std.com)
Ceolas
This has several hundred tunes in abc and bagpipe.tex formats as well as
postscript versions of most of the abc tunes, software for viewing and
manipulating tunes and several descriptive files.
FTP: celtic.stanford.edu/pub/tunes
WWW: http://celtic.stanford.edu/ceolas.html
St. Olaf tune index
This is an index of printed collections of tunes, with over 28,000 entries,
mostly of celtic or American-celtic origin. It is broken up into 25 files in
the form a_index.prn for each letter; the whole set comes to about 2.7
megabytes. There is also a biblio.txt file listing the source books and
Intro and a Readme for more information. The collection is copyright but
freely available for non-commercial use.
Maintainer: James Stewart (jnstewart@ualr.edu)
FTP or gopher: ftp.stolaf .edu /gopher/"Internet Resources"/"St. Olaf
Sponsored Mailing Lists"/Omni-Cultural-Academic-Resource/Fine-
Arts/Music/folk-tunes.
WWW: http://celtic.stanford.edu/tunesearch.html
Now updated, with just over 35,000 entries!
Richard Robinsons' Tunebook
This is a nice listing of Richard's personal collection of tunes, available
by WWW; each tune has an associated graphic file (72 dpi gif) which will
display the staff notation for that tune
WWW: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/tunebook.html
WWW: http://celtic.stanford.edu/pub/tunes/RRTunebook/tunebook.html
FTP celtic.stanford.edu/pub/tunes/RRTunebook
Richard Darsie's TuneWeb
Similar project to that of Richard Robinson
WWW: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~darsie/tunebook.html
Maintainer: Richard Darsie (darsie@ece.ucdavis.edu)
Dan Beimborn's Tune Collection
A similar collection of gif tunes.
WWW: http://execpc.com:80/~danb/tunes/dantunes.html
Maintainer: Dan Beimborn (danb@execpc.com)
Michael Loehr's collection
This has a collection of tunes in postscript format, including John Walsh's
collection of about 60 of the most popular session tunes. Most WWW browsers
cannot display postscript, but the files can be saved and printed using
software such as the Macintosh LaserWriter Utility.
WWW: http://este.darmstadt.gmd.de:5000/~loehr/music.html
Irish folksong lyrics collection:
The lyrics to over 300 Irish folk songs are at:
WWW: http://www.cs.hut.fi/~zaphod/search
Maintainer: Seppo J Niemi <zaphod@cs.hut.fi>
Gaelic Song Archive
Contains songs in Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx, with accompanying tunes
in abc format.
WWW: http://www.webcom.com/~liam/gaelsong/song.html
Maintainer: Liam Hart (wahart00@pop.uky.edu)
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