Sheet Music

Whistle
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Maybe this has been covered before, but does anyone have any pointers to a good web site(s) where I can download some sheet music for Irish Traditional Music.

If there is already a topic on this please point me to it to save repitition.

Thanks
Gerry

[ This Message was edited by: WhistlingGypsy on 2001-07-11 09:11 ]

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The way – nay, the way – to obtain written music for trad tunes is ABC. There’s a whole bunch of ABC info at the bottom of Ceolas’s](http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/%22%3ECeolas%27s) tunes page. The general idea is that you have this text-only code, and you stick it in a program (I use BarFly</a](http://rbu01.ed-rbu.mrc.ac.uk/BarFlyStuff/BarFlyPage.html">BarFly</a)> on the Mac, and occasionally Concertina.net’s web-based ABC](http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html%22%3EABC) convertor) and out comes written music and sound.

While Ceolas has a bit of a list of them, I usually start at Henrik](http://home.swipnet.se/~w-11382/abc.htm%22%3EHenrik) Norbeck’s ABC archive to find the tne I want.

    -Rich

[ This Message was edited by: rich on 2001-07-11 09:28 ]
Cannot.. type.. need.. coffee..

[ This Message was edited by: rich on 2001-07-11 09:28 ]
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Here’s my favorite tune links

Preferred Link: JC's](http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html%3EJC%27s) ABC Tune Finder This is always the first place I look. It usually finds multiple versions of a tune. It provides both ABC, GIF(standard Notation) and Midi (sound) files. I can check the sound files to assure that I have the version I'm looking for.
Additional Links:
Music](http://www.RedBrick.dcu.ie/~tradsoc/archive/%3EMusic) Archive -DCU TradSoc
Irish](http://www.verinet.com/~ktcrumb/tunes/index.php3%3EIrish) Tin Whistle Sound Files
Tunes](http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/#pdf%3ETunes) at Ceolas
Ceili](http://members.aol.com/boynehunt/ceili.html%3ECeili) House Band Home Page
Musica](http://home.sol.no/~fnordber/MV/links/celtic.html%3EMusica) Viva: Ther Free Sheet Music Directory
Folmusic](http://www.contemplator.com/folk.html%3EFolmusic) of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America
Ancient Irish Tunes
Pub](http://rigel.csuchico.edu/%7Epubscout/songs.html%3EPub) Scout's Tunes
Free Tune Books: Michael Eskin's site has a couple of very nice Tune Books in Adobe Acrobat format that can be downloaded and printed. Here a link to: Michael](http://members.home.com/eskin/index.html%3EMichael) Eskins Traditional Irish Music

Hope this helps you to further …

Enjoy Your Music,

Lee Marsh

[ This Message was edited by: LeeMarsh on 2001-07-11 12:47 ]

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Thanks so much - really appreciated

Gerry

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Ye :slight_smile: ah, I agree. This should be a sticky topic.

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Don’t forget thesession.org. That’s my one and only resource.

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You can get the entire ‘O’Neill’s Music of Ireland’ and ‘O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland’ in pdf format here:

http://www.guitarnut.com/folktablature/oneills/index.html

That oughta keep ya busy for awhile! :laughing:

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This is useful. I’ve been using Tinwhistler and the Session. ABC drives me nuts. I find conventional (5 lines and dots) much easier, more logical and really not that hard to learn. I don’t read that well (helps if I hear it a couple of times). Tinwhistler is good because there are sound files – always MIDI and sometimes a clip of a whislte playing it.

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You may want to consider ABC2Win or ABC Navigator to read/print your ABCs as notes on the stave. ABC as used on the internet was meant to have a compact format to transfer big tunefiles easily, not really with the intention of reading the actual notation. ABCNavigator gives you a decent MIDI playback too.