Tune collections

New, June 2012: La Bourrée: 108 dance and song tunes collected in J Canteloube's book of Massif Central music La Bourrée, from the 4th edition published in Paris in 1929, transcribed into abc. Scanned pages of the whole book with song words, photographs of musicians, introductory material, etc. can be found on Gary Chapin's Accordeonaire blog.

The woodenflute mailing list tune archive - 640 tunes in abc format posted to the woodenflute mailing list, last updated 1st May 2003. I always relied on the list archives to get the tunes from, then the archives went offline! If they ever re-emerge ...

Tune file from Le Grand Session de Manchester : 153 tunes in abc format, mainly dance music from Central France, last updated 12th March 2000.

Tune file from Orchesography : All the sixteenth century dance tunes from the 'Treatise in the form of a dialogue, by which all may easily learn and practise the honourable exercise of dancing' transcribed into abc.

86 British and French dance tunes from the repertoire of English ceilidh band Shake The Dice, last updated 13th November 2001.

Session tunes: uk.music.folk suggest the following as tunes that might well act as a basic repertoire to get you started in a English and Irish music session. October 2006.

Posts: This file started out as being a collection of the tunes that I've posted to various newsgroups or mailing lists: some of them may well therefore be duplicates of tunes in other collections on this site. In time, however, the file seems to have turned into a more general home for good and/or interesting tunes.