Musics in the ABC format

Linux live-cd with support for ABC music !

 
en français
explications complémentaires / conseils


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 :

Enter title :

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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