Online resources for Celtic music
Jen Smith

1. Online sheet music for Celtic tunes (available file formats are indicated)

  Especially useful

• Tunes from the Northern Virgina "NOVA" Session (ABC, PDF, MIDI)
• Tunes from thesession.org (ABC, GIF)
• Tunes from tradlessons.com (videos of tunes played at speed and then slowly)

• Tunes from a site maintained by John Chambers
  • All (!) of the tunes from three of O'Neill's Irish tune books, in ABC format
  • Tune finder, for access to a large database of tunes with multiple file types (ABC, PDF, GIF, MIDI, and more)
• Tunes from the band Wild Dismay of Shelby, Ohio (ABC, GIF, MIDI)
• Richard Robinson's Tunebook (ABC, GIF)
• Tunes from Cranford Publications (ABC, GIF; some have audio files)
• Tunes from the Siamsa School of Irish Music in Montreal, Quebec (GIF, RM, MP3)
• Music transcriptions and sound clips from Pennywhistler's Press (GIF, PDF, RM, MP3)
• Tunes from Celtic Orbis (GIF)
• Alan Ng's Irish Traditional Music Tune Index (discography and bibliography for use with offline sources)

2. Information about Celtic flute and whistle playing

• woodenflute.com
• The Flow -- traditional Irish flute playing
• A Guide to the Irish Flute, by Brad Hurley
• Tutorial on whistle basics, from The Whistle Shop

3. The ABC music notation system

• The ABC home page
• ABC to sheet music and MIDI converter, from concertina.net

    Last link check: April 2012
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