The tunes included in this collection were gathered from various
sources (specified in the tune file) and are public domain unless
otherwise noted.
The best source of information for ABC is Chris Walshaw's very helpful website.
For anyone unfamiliar with ABC, Chris' page is
the best place to start.
It is a great resource for more experienced ABC users as well.
The files on this site have been created using Phil Taylor's Mac-based
program "BarFly". They can be accessed using any ABC
reading program (a variety of which can be downloaded from the
Chris Walshaw site). Note however that there is an occasional
cross-platform conflict involving the
"abc2win" program that prevents a BB ABC file from being opened in that
program. If you
have this problem, you can either try opening the
file
in another program ("Muse", "MusicEase", "Melody Assistant", etc.) OR
downloading
the file from the TuneFinder site.
If any of the entries in this collection are either composed or
copyrighted and proper attribution has not been made in
the file, this fact should be brought to my attention.
IMPORTANT:
In cases where tunes are clearly shown as composed/copyrighted,
authorization should be obtained from the appropriate party prior
to
any intended commercial use.
I have used John Chambers' fine TuneFinder
index as the reference to reduce duplication - in other words, if the
tune is listed in
TuneFinder, it already exists in some other
collection. For that reason, it is to be hoped that most of the tunes
contained herein
should be unique (in the sense of not being found
elsewhere).
Please note that it is my intention to keep this a work in progress,
with additions being made as time permits.
Any suggestions, comments, or corrections with regards to this endeavor
will be received with thanks.
This Index lists all of the tune files presently on the website. Since
this is a PDF file, you can't do much with it except check to see what
tunes are on my site. You can also use
the file number to access the file, but it's a cumbersome process that
can be avoided by using TuneFinder
(which can search for tunes by name or by filenumber, so that typing in
"010087.abc" will get you to
the same file as typing in the name "Ashmolean House").
Clicking on the above will take you to
the index.html page that has
links to all tune files beginning with
that letter. ("A" and "The" are disregarded.)
NEW FOLDER FOR THE TUNE COLLECTIONS:
The tunes from various collections (CRE, Roche, Mulvihill, Liddy, etc.)
that
were formerly in the ~batch folder have been moved to bigfolder.
