![]() ![]() The emphasis is on instrumental folk music (specifically, contra dance tunes), although some links also include other types of folk music or classical music. Search for specific tunes at John Chamber's excellent site ABC Tune Finder (or at the test site) Note: punctuation must be exact. Search results will differ when a comma or apostrophe is included or omitted. (Please consider donating to help keep this extremely valuable website up and running. Use the Paypal donate button on the site--I did!) See also Contra dance music tune books (new!) and Dance music from Charlie Seelig's most excellent contra dance links resource page. | ||
The fine print: Do not assume that any tune is in the public domain or is royalty free. It is the responsibility of the person who uses a tune to: » determine the composer, if any, and the copyright status; » seek and receive the copyright owner's permission to use a tune for commercial purposes; » consult a lawyer if you need legal advice about copyright. This page and its content was created by and is maintained & copyrighted by Mickey Koth. Please send an e-mail to make comments, suggest additions, and/or report broken links. Thanks to everyone who has already done so! E-mails requesting legal advice about using tunes for commercial purposes or concerning copyright will not be answered, as I am not a lawyer. |
A | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Alf's place | no | yes |
Allan's Irish fiddler | gif | yes |
Amazon Creek (note: archived version of this website) | no | yes |
Greg Anderson's original contra dance tunes | gif | yes |
Apprendre à jouer...? Learning to play...? | no | yes |
Archive.folx.org | pdf, png | yes |
Atlanta Irish Music | no | |
Australian dance music (note: archived version of this website) | gif | yes |
B | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Banjolin traditional tunes list | jpg, pdf | yes |
Hill Country Tunes by Sam Bayard | no | |
A big bunch o' tunes | gif | yes |
Big Round Band | yes | |
Bill Black's tunes online | yes | |
Rob Blakeley's Irish music | gif | yes |
Blarney Stone Pub Session Tunebook | yes | |
Blue rose Scandinavian folk music | pdf (some) | yes (some) |
Harry Bolick's new timey fiddle tunes | yes | |
Breizh partitions | no | |
David Brinkman's fiddle tunes | no | |
Ken Brown session tunes | no | |
Ken Brown: The black book (136 page pdf; may be slow to load) | no | |
Eddie Burke sets | no | |
Clara Byom original contra dance tunes | no | |
C | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Calgary Folk Music prairie mountain fiddlers tunes | no | |
Cam-French tune collection | yes | |
Jonathan Cannon's tunes | other | no |
Carp Celtic jam | yes | |
CeilidhSoc searchable by composer, key, meter, etc. | gif | yes |
Celtic Orbis | gif | no |
Fiddle tunes (in manuscript) from the Center for Popular Music | other | no |
Ceolas | gif, pdf | yes |
John Chamber's ABC music collection: contra | Irish | no | yes |
Cincinnati Open Band | no | |
Co. Champaign Irish Tune Coll. Online | no | |
Cobb's music of Ireland | no | yes |
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Harp of Tara Branch Kingston Irish session tune book | no | |
Séamus Connolly collection of Irish music | no | |
Contra Dan's tunes | yes | |
Contranella tunebook | jpg | yes |
Cooley-Keegan Branch of San Francisco tune list | gif | no |
Corvallis Celtic jam tune list and resources | yes | |
Cranford Publications | gif | yes |
Rich Crew's tune book | no | |
Tunes by Phil Cunningham | no | yes |
Czech Area Concertina Club | no | |
D | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Dallas Area Contrabands music archive | no | |
Delivery boys | no | yes |
Dennis' grab bag of gifs | gif | no |
David DiGiuseppe original compositions | no | |
E | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Evart hammered dulcimer festival music archive | jpg | no |
F | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Paul Fackler's Cape Breton collection (table of contents) | yes | |
The Fackler collection (original tunes) | no | |
Fiddle music of Donegal | gif | no |
FiddleFork | gif or pdf | A-M | N-Z |
Fiddle-icious | no | |
Fiddler's companion | no | some |
Tunes from "The Field" (collection) from Michael Eskin | no | |
Folkets Hus Spillefold Collection of dance music (Danish) | gif, pdf | no |
The Folktune finder | png | yes |
Freds Folks Ceilidh Band music book | no | |
Free ABC format music sites, a long list of sites with ABC tunes (Some sites are already listed on this page) | no | yes |
Free Celtic scores for fiddle | gif | some |
Free traditional sheet music | gif, pdf | no |
G | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Nigel Gatherer's Tune Index | no | yes |
Paul Gitlitz's original tunes | yes | |
Gladys' Celtic corner Mixed bag of old time music | gif | no |
Kevin M. Goess fakebook | jpg, pdf | yes |
Kevin M. Goess Wassail! xmas fakebook | jpg, pdf | yes |
Good Parking (English contra dance band) | pdf: jigs|reels|waltzes/polkas | abc: jigs|reels|waltzes/polkas |
Sarah Gowan's tunes | yes | |
Tune file from Le Grand Session de Manchester 153 tunes (mainly dance music from Central France) | no | yes |
Hope Grietzer's Tune of the month archive | no | |
H | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Ed Haley fiddle tune transcriptions | gif | no |
Hand me doon da fiddle by Tom Anderson and Pam Swing; reproduction of the 1981 edition | no | |
Paul Hardy's session tunebook | yes | |
Paul Hardy's Xmas tunebook | yes | |
Paul Haslem's tunes | yes | |
Hobart Session tunes | no | yes |
Seth Houston's contra-dance music | no | |
I | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Identitairs (Québécois repertoire) | jpg | no |
International music score library project (classical music in the public domain) | no | |
Tunes of The Irish Band of Columbia, Missouri (scroll down on this page for a list of the tunes) | no | yes |
Irish heather tunes | yes | |
Ithaca Irish Session tunes | no | |
K | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Kaubells tunes | yes | |
David Kaynor's tunes | some | |
Mark Kenneth Scottish & Irish music | yes | |
Kentucky Open Band contra tunes | no | |
The Kitchen Musician alphabetical list | by country of origin | gif | no |
Kiwi Folk | yes | |
Stephen Klein's Fiddle tunes in ABC format | no | yes |
Klezmer scores | no | |
L | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
John Lamancusa's old time fiddle tune page | no | |
Lancaster Contra Dance | no | |
Pete Loud's collection scroll down to the "freebies" section | gif | no |
Douglas M. Lowder scroll down to near the bottom of the page | yes | |
M | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
McDermott's Handy | jpg | no |
Dougie MacDonald collection of fiddle tunes | some | some |
Natalie MacMaster's tunes from her CDs | jpg | no |
Maine Fiddle Camp | no | |
Larry Mallette's tunes | yes | |
Mandozine (under the category "coMandoList Tune of the Week (TOW) File") | no | yes |
Steve Mansfield posts collection of tunes originally posted to mailing lists and Usenet compiled into one site | no | yes |
Contra tunes & etc. by Dave Marcus & friends | no | |
McKennas Irish music site | no | |
Steve McNally's tunes | yes (for most) | |
Mendocino English Country Dance Tune book | Multipart tune book | no | |
Milwaukee Slow Session Tunes | no | yes |
Tunes from Mitchell's famous Irish session | gif | yes |
Montreal session tunebook | pdf, png | yes |
Richard Moon's TUNEdb | yes | yes |
Dan Mozell's music files | gif, pdf | no |
Dexter N. Muir, ABC tunes | no | yes |
N | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Nashville Old-Time String Band Association | no | |
NCFolk session tune book 1 and 2 | yes | |
New Mexico Folk Music & Dance Society abc archive | no | yes |
NIPS | no | |
Henrik Norbeck's tune index | no | yes |
North Atlantic tune list: dance & fiddle tunes from around the North Atlantic | gif | yes |
NOTBOK med låtar från Södermanland (Scandinavian) | gif | no |
Nottingham folk music database | gif | yes |
Nova Irish session sheet music | yes | |
O | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Paddy O'Brien's sets (collection) | no | |
Complete works of Turlough O'Carolan | gif | yes |
100 Jigs and Reels of the O'Flaherty Irish Music Retreat | abc | |
One Hundred More Tunes of the O'Flaherty Irish Music Retreat | abc | |
A dozen easy Irish tunes: from the 2008O'Flaherty Irish Music Youth Camp | abc | |
A baker's dozen easy Irish tunes: from the 2009 O'Flaherty Irish Music Youth Camp | abc | |
Old-time jam tunes | no | yes |
O'Neill's | no | yes |
Ottawa Cape Breton session | no | |
Ottawa Fiddle Ensemble repertoire | no | |
Oxford Fiddle Group | yes | |
P | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Pat's tune repository | yes | |
Chris Peterson's traditional tunes | original tunes | gif | no |
Fiddle and mandolin books from Petimar Press | no | |
Pinecone Beginners Irish Session: tunes book 1 book 2 | yes | |
Q | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Bill Quern's tunes | yes | |
R | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection | yes, tif | no |
Tunes collected by John Relph | no | yes |
Riddell fiddles | no | |
Roaring Jelly (the one from the Southwest) music archive (note: archived version of this website) | yes | |
Richard Robinson's Tunebook | gif | yes |
Paul Rosen's original tunes | jpg | yes |
Roswell Irish session | no | |
S | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
San Diego Contra Dance repository of printable sheet music | no | |
Paul Sater's abc tunes | no | yes |
Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles core tunes | no | |
The session | gif | yes |
Sessioneer (note: archived version of this website) | gif | no |
SessioNite | no | yes |
Shake The Dice (English ceilidh band) 86 British and French dance tunes | no | yes |
Shelta | jpg | yes |
Michael Shulman's tune list | yes | |
Pete Showman's tunes | no | yes |
Siamsa session tunes | gif | no |
Slainte.web | yes | |
Sliding Scale Music Tunes from the Western Edge | no | |
The Sligo Creek Hedge's School Children's Irish session booklet | no | |
Slow session web page from The Celtic Arts Center of Southern California (note: archived version of this website) | gif | yes |
SlowPlayers music list | gif, pdf | yes |
Sonothèque ABC | no | yes |
Speledans (Scandinavian) | no | yes |
SPUDS: reels | jigs | couple dance tunes | sets | png or pdf | yes |
Andrew Swaine's tunes | yes | |
Swedish traditional music links | gif | no |
Sydney Scottish Fiddlers | no | yes |
T | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Three Bean Salad Carp Camp tune book | homework | extra credit | no | |
Tunes for the T.I.M.E.S. | v.1, v. 2 | v.1, v.2 |
Le Troubadour wallon (The Walloon troubadour): The Walloon Troubadour | yes | |
Traditional Music and Dance Wiki: tunes (note: archived version of this website) | yes | |
Traditional music database aka TUNEdb | png | yes |
Traditional music from France | Airs de Normandie | gif | no |
Tradition
music library:
best known
tunes |
bluegrass
| Irish
part
1 |
part
2 |
part
3 | Old-time | Pub session tunes part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | Scottish part 1 | part 2 guitar tab (includes staff notation) |
gif | no |
Traditional-style tunes by Aiden Crossey, Gavin Atkin, Taz Tarry | no | yes |
V | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Vashon Celtic tunes jam tunes (scroll about half way down the page) | no | |
Victoria Fiddle Society jam tunes (scroll about half way down the page) | gif, jpg, or pdf | no |
Violin Sheet Music (including a facsimile of Ryan's Mammoth Collection) | no | |
The virtual session (requires Flash player) | other | no |
W | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Charlie Walden's Missouri Fiddling tune transcriptions | PDF or gif | no |
Charlie Walden's sheet music downloads (one-time $10 donation suggested) | no | |
John Walsh's session tunes (collection) | no | |
Wandering whistler | gif | no |
Fiddle tunes from Bernie Waugh | yes | |
The way of the fiddle: one fiddler's collection of old-time tunes | no | |
Glenn Weiser's Traditional Celtic, Irish, & old time tune book | no | |
Whole Hog Musical Revue | some | |
Wide web ABC index | no | yes |
Wild Dismay tunebook | gif | yes |
Wildfiddle from Ron Wild | gif | no |
Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club Australian traditional dance tunes | PDF 1, PDF 2 | no |
Brian K. Wood (some original tunes, some photocopied from the Fiddler's fakebook) | gif | no |
ABC tunes from the Woodenflute mailing list | no | yes |
XYZ | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
Peter Yarensky's New Hampshire Old-Time Country Dance (scroll down past the 4th paragraph to get to the list of ABC arranged by format) | yes | |
Your Friends & Neighbors tunes | no |
This page and its content was created by and is maintained & copyrighted by Mickey Koth. Please send an e-mail to make comments, suggest additions, and/or report broken links. E-mails requesting legal advice about using tunes for commercial purposes or concerning copyright will not be answered, as I am not a lawyer.
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