For more explanations about this
music format, go to :
http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/
I've transcribed several pieces of
music in abc format. (more than 500)
There are also some partitions in acrobat reader format (*.pdf) (I've made
new versions of them, with nicer fonts).
I won't translate all my original pages about the collections, but I can present
them briefly here :
folk / trad. :
Book of songs ["livre des chansons"] collected by Henri Davenson, from the french folklore - [pdf]
Haute-Bretagne songs collected by Adolphe Orain - [pdf]
Other french traditionnal tunes. - (pdf)
Tunes from the Champaigne area - [pdf])
Celtic tunes (irish, scottish). - (pdf)
Frau Nachtigall : a collection of German folk songs (Volkslieder) [ABC] (pdf)
Some folk songs from Alsace / Elsass, und Germania. [ABC] (pdf)
Scandinavian tunes - [pdf]
Early music :
"Orchesographie" by Thoinot Arbeau : a dance tutorial from the french renaissance era. [ABC] (pdf) [rtf (without notes & incomplete)] ( html presentation)
"Premier livre des chansons à deux ou à troix parties" by Tilman Susato. (vocal music) [pdf] ( html presentation)
Suite n°1 en La mineur by Robert de Visée. - [pdf]) ( html presentation)
Other transcriptions of baroque / early music - [pdf]
Various transcriptions, temporary files etc.
Note : see my up-to-date french page in order
to see the individual html files about the tunebooks, get the last abcfiles
I've made or, better, download the zip file below :
All
my transcriptions in one whole zipped file (without
pdf files +/- 175 ko)
I've done also a font for renaissance music (for use only with abc2win at the moment)
I made a package with installer for helping the use of the best tools for abc : ghostscript, abcm2ps, abc2midi... : AbcGhost.
Some softwares that handle ABC format :
AbcMus1.1b
http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-11382/abcmus/
(for hearing)
Abc2win http://www.c7r.com/abc/
(for displaying notes)
Abcm2ps
http://moinejf.free.fr/
(for converting to the postscript format)
Search engine for abc files on this homepage :
You can also search in John Chamber Abc tune finder which is more complete :
To browse some of my abc files :
davenson.abc - arbeau.abc - gallia.abc - celtia.abc - nachtigl.abc - germania.abc - scandinavia.abc - tr_ericf.abc - guide_abc.txt
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