Another Source For Free On-line Tunes

[Craig Wagner]

Squeezers,

 

After learning a wonderful chromatic parlor tune from Frank Edgley (Woodland Flowers, by Felix Burns), I was anxious to find other tunes by Felix. A web search brought me to a site called the "Nottingham Fok Music Database" at http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~ef/music/tunes/index.htm. It has a number of tunes in standard music notation ready to print out. It isn't an Irish collection, but has some Irish tunes plus a couple more Felix Burns tunes for me to explore... Check it out...

 

I've found these 19th centurty parlor tunes to fall fairly easily under the fingers on an anglo...

 

Onward,

Craig

[David Barnert]

Does everyone here know about the tune finder?

 

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html

 

You type in the name of a tune and it searches all the collections on the web of tunes that are stored in the abc format (and that's a LOT of tunes).

 

You don't need to know anything about abc to use it. You can have the tune returned to you as a jpg, midi, ps, pdf or a few other formats, depending on whether you want to see it on screen, print it in high resolution, or hear it.

 

Go nuts.

[Helen]

Ah Craig,

 

That site was so much fun. Thanks.

 

Helen