These are
free collections of tunes in graphic
format (gif, jpg, pdf, png, or tif) and/or in
ABC notation.
| A | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
| Abacci Music Irish, Celtic and World music | gif | no |
| Alf's place | no | yes |
| Allan's Irish fiddler | gif | yes |
| Amazon Creek | no | yes |
| Greg Anderson's original contra dance tunes | gif | yes |
| Apprendre à jouer...? Learning to play...? | no | yes |
| Athole ABC Collection (index to the collection) (note: archived version of both websites) | no | yes |
| Australian dance music | gif | no |
| B | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
| Banjolin traditional tunes list | gif, pdf | yes |
| The Bassett Street Hounds tunebook | no | yes |
| Hill Country Tunes by Sam Bayard | no | |
| BB ABC collection | no | yes |
| 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 | |
| Breathnach collection: vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4 | no | yes |
| Breizh partitions | no | |
| Ken Brown session tunes | no | |
| Ken Brown: The black book | no | |
| Eddie Burke sets | no | |
| C | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
| Calgary Folk Music prairie mountain fiddlers tunes | no | |
| Liz Carroll | gif | no |
| CCE session tunes | no | yes |
| Ceili House Band tunes | jpg | yes |
| CeilidhSoc searchable by composer, key, meter, etc. | gif | yes |
| Celtic Orbis | gif | no |
| Ceolas | gif, pdf | yes |
| John Chamber's ABC music collection: contra || Irish | no | yes |
| Cincinnati Open Band | no | |
| Cliff's Tune Page | gif | some |
| The County Champaign (the one in Illinois) Irish tune collections on-line See also Co. Champaign Irish Tune Coll. Online (not sure this is the same group) | ||
| Cobb's music of Ireland | no | yes |
| Collection of collections of mostly celtic tunes | jpg | yes |
| Contranella tunebook | jpg | yes |
| Cooley-Keegan Branch of San Francisco tune list | gif | no |
| Cranford Publications | gif | yes |
| Rich Crew's tune book | no | |
| Tunes by Phil Cunningham | no | yes |
| D | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
| Greg Dahms page of tunes | no | yes |
| 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 | yes | |
| The Fackler collection (original tunes) | no | |
| Fiddle music of Donegal | gif | no |
| FiddleFork (registration required; it's free but the process has some somewhat intrusive questions) | gif | yes |
| Fiddle-icious | no | |
| Fiddler's companion | no | some |
| Tunes from "The Field" (collection) | no | |
| Selected tunes from the Fitzmaurice, Jackson, and Colclough collections (18th century) | no | yes |
| The Folktune finder | png | yes |
| The Simon Fraser ABC Collection (index to the collection) (note: archived version of both websites) | no | yes |
| Fraser for flute ABC Collection (index to the collection) (note: archived version of both websites) | no | 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 sheet music directory (site down as of July 2008 because of heavy traffic) | no | yes |
| G | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
| Nigel Gatherer's Tune Index | no | yes |
| Paul Giblitz's original tunes | yes | |
| Gladys' Celtic corner and 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) | no | |
| Tune file from Le Grand Session de Manchester 153 tunes (mainly dance music from Central France) | no | yes |
| H | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
| Ed Haley fiddle tune transcriptions | gif | no |
| Hobart Session tunes | no | yes |
| I | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
| International music score library project (classical music in the public domain) | no | |
| Tunes of The Irish Band of Columbia, Missouri | no | yes |
| Irish heather tunes | yes | |
| K | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
| Kaubells tunes | abc | |
| David Kaynor's tunes | yes | |
| 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 |
| L | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
| John Lamancusa's old time fiddle tune page | no | |
| Lancaster Contra Dance | no | |
|
John Layton's
ABC big list: a collection of 15,000 traditional dance tunes from Britain,
Ireland, and many other countries; includes the entire Nottingham database as well as other collections |
no | yes |
| The Leitrim fiddler: tunes by Joe Liddy | no | yes |
| Lesl's Welsh ABC collection | no | yes |
| John Liestman ABCs | no | yes |
| Pete Loud's collection scroll down to the "freebies" section | gif | no |
| Douglas M. Lowder scroll down to near the boottom 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 |
| 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 |
| McKennas Irish music site | no | |
| Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club | no | |
| Milwaukee Slow Session Tunes (note: archived version of this website) | no | yes |
| Tunes from Mitchell's famous Irish session | gif | yes |
| Montreal session tunebook (formerly O'Regan's 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 |
| Martin Mulvihill collection | 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 |
| Henrik Norbeck's tune index | no | yes |
| NOTBOK med låtar från Södermanland Scandinavian | gif | no |
| Nottingham folk music database | gif | 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 2008 O'Flaherty Irish Music Youth Camp | abc | |
| A baker's dozen easy irish tunes: from the 2009 O'Flaherty Irish Music Youth Camp | abc | |
| Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra: vol. 1, vol. 2 | no | yes |
| O'Neill's | no | yes |
| O'Regan's session tunebook is now Montreal session tunebook | pdf, png | 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 | |
| Pay The Reckoning original tunes | jpg | yes |
| Chris Peterson's traditional tunes || original tunes | gif | no |
| The Pub Scouts' tune list (note: archived version of this website) | some | 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 |
| Chris Ricker's fiddle tunes | no | yes |
| Riddell fiddles | no | |
| Roaring Jelly (the one from the Southwest) music archive | yes | |
| Richard Robinson's Tunebook | gif | yes |
| Roche collection of traditional Irish music | no | yes |
| Paul Rosen's original tunes | jpg | yes |
| S | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
| San Diego Folk Heritage Community Band | yes | |
| Paul Sater's abc tunes (note: archived version of this website) | no | yes |
| SCAT Scottish Flute School 2001 Tunes (note: archived version of this website) | no | yes |
| Scottish ABC music: Mostly old Scottish collections (note: archived version of this website) | no | yes |
| Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles core tunes | no | |
| Scotty the fiddler tunebook | gif | no |
| The session | gif | yes |
| Sessioneer (unable to display as of 07/20/09; rest of sessioneer.org works; try the archived version of the site) | 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 | no | yes |
| Siamsa session tunes | gif | no |
| The MacDonald Skye ABC Collection (index to the collection) (note: archived version of both websites) | no | yes |
| Slainte.web | yes | |
| Sliding Scale Music Tunes from the Western Edge | no | |
| Slow session web page | gif | yes |
| SlowPlayers music list | gif, pdf | yes |
| Lennart Sohlman's Swedish fiddle site (note: archived version of this website) | no | yes |
| Speledans Scandanavian | no | yes |
| Spraoí (note: archived version of this website) | no | yes |
| SPUDS: reels || jigs || everything else | png | yes |
| Swedish/Scandinavian fiddle tunes (note: archived version of this website) | gif | yes |
| Swedish traditional music links | gif | no |
| Sydney Scottish Fiddlers | no | yes |
| T | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
| Brendan Taaffe | no | |
| Three Bean Salad Carp Camp tune book || homework || extra credit | no | |
| Tunes for the T.I.M.E.S. | pdf v.1, v. 2 | v.1, v.2 |
| Traditional Music and Dance Wiki: tunes | 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 |
gif | no |
| Traditional old-time (oldtimey) music of American | gif | no |
| Traditional-style tunes by Aiden Crossey, Gavin Atkin, Taz Tarry | no | yes |
| U | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
| untitled page | no | yes |
| V | gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif | ABC |
| Vashon Celtic Players | jpg | no |
| Victoria Fiddle Society jam tunes (scroll about half way down the page) | gif, jpg, or pdf | no |
| Village music project | no | yes |
| 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 | gif | no |
| John Walsh's session tunes (collection) | no | |
| Wandering whistler | gif | no |
| 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 | |
| Welsh traditional music | gif | yes |
| Wide web ABC index | no | yes |
| Wikimusica Irish session tunes | png | yes |
| Wild Dismay tunebook | gif | yes |
| Wildfiddle | 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 | yes | |
| Zouki ABC collection | no | yes |
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15, 2010)