Traditional
Music
- ABC2WIN, Music
Notation Software
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Shareware program for writing, editing, playback and printing
tunes by way of the relatively sophisticated but easy-to-learn ABC Notation system.
Transcribe tunes and then print out standard sheet music; compose in ABC, and then listen
to the result. An enjoyable and useful tool for trad musicians. |
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Shareware for playback of ABC tunes. Nicer sound, more variety of instrument voices
than the built-in player of ABC2Win. |
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An impressive
comprehensive site, with information on the elements of traditional music, tunes,
instruments, styles. A great background site. |
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Pages
by the great Scottish singer/composer/guitarist; with a very nice collection of lyrics to trad. Scottish songs, links,
rants, info. |
- DIRTY LINEN -
American
folk/Celtic/world music monthly magazine, with a sampling of each month's articles at its
website.
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Andrew Kuntz's very impressive long-term (since
1987!) project; tunes in ABC, with notations regarding history, sources,
early printings, recorded versions, etc. A great informative site. |
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O'Neill's classic 1913 text about pipers and pipemaking, presented on Dublin
pipemaker Bill Haneman's website. Check out Bill's beautiful work
while you're at his site. |
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A nice large list of
standard session tunes, playable on the Noteworthy Player. |
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All-Ireland Champion flute and whistle player
Turlach Boylan established The Kansas City School of Irish Music beginning
with tinwhistle classes in Fall 2006. At the start of 2007 Dave Agee began
to teach fiddle at the school. Weekday evening group classes are held in
Union Station at the offices of the Kansas City Irish Cultural Center.
Individual lessons on flute, tinwhistle and banjo are available. |
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Alan Ng's tunography. This is a large set of large lists and indexes. Not a
source for tunes, per se, but a source for information ABOUT tunes.
Excellent for alternative tune titles. |
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Vince Brennan's AMAZING project: the entirety of
O'Neill's original book (the "1850") on the web -- in NOTEWORTHY, ABC, Sheet
Music AND MIDI files! Incredible. A wonderful way to present O'Neill's in a
way accessible to everyone. On the same site, he has similarly complete
versions of the classic Allen's Irish Fiddler, and the Complete Works
of O'Carolan |
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A great general Irish
music site, with a newsletter, a multitude of links, essays and articles
about musicians and instruments. A great site. |
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Mike Simpson's
impressive site devoted to traditional music, with much emphasis on
the tinwhistle. One of the best Tinwhistle Guides online, along with extensive
tune archives (.gif/.jpg files & midi files), session listings, news and
notes, reviews of recordings and instruments, players' directory.
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Good source for tunes, in sheet music or abc format. Searchable
index, comments on tunes, listings of recorded sources, accepts tune
contributions from members. |
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Excellent
, searchable, huge database of tunes , in ABC, sheet music and MIDI formats.
A great source. |
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This is a
lovely page devoted to the great Irish harper/composer, with midi files of
many tunes, good background info on tunes, links to other sites on Carolan and the harp
in general. |
- CELTIC SONG LYRIC SITES
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There
are numerous websites with collections of song lyrics. Below are some good
ones, with enough songs to keep you busy for years! |
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Cantaria
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Celtic Lyrics
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Frank Lennon's
"The MIDI Music Classroom": Irish Song Lyrics
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Ireland.com - Irish
Song Lyrics
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Spike's
Music Collection
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