ABC(plus) tune page

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I am a keen exponent of the ABC(plus) method of music notation. This section of my website tries to showcaces some of its possibilities.

Tranposition Options

Special 'one-click transpositions:
    None    (1 octave down) Cello    (2 octaves down) Cello [=selected]    (e.g. Clarinet in) Bb    (e.g. Alt Sax in) Eb    (e.g. Horn in) F    (e.g. Euphonium in) Bb, 1 octave down

general transposition:


Most of these tunes are taken from the source distribution of abcm2ps - a tool for generating the sheet music from ABC source code.

This is also a convenient place for me to put other miscellaneous ABC source material that doesn't belong to a specific collection.

ABC Tune Collection: samples

... file X (index) title(s) composer(s) source(s)
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voices.abc 2 8th Sonata for piano L. van Beethoven
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sample4.abc 1 ABC-2.0 new fea\ % strange continuation line
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sample2.abc 1 All clefs
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sample2.abc 3 All clefs with max signatures
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sample2.abc 6 All decorations
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voices.abc 4 Allegro grazioso Schumann
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accordion.abc 3 Andro à Patrice Corbel
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sample3.abc 5 Annotations and guitar chords
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Bare_Necessities.abc 1 Bare Necessities Pat Shaw
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sample.abc 5 Bars and Rests
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sample2.abc 9 Beams
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sample.abc 8 Changing Time or Key Signatures
Guitar Chords
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sample.abc 6 Chords
Unions
First and Second Endings
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sample.abc 10 Chords with many accidentals
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newfeatures.abc 3 Clef Changes Within Tune
In-Line Info Fields by [..]
... file X (index) title(s) composer(s) source(s)
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sample2.abc 11 Clef transpositions
No transposition
abc2ps compatible clef transposition
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deco.abc 1 Customized decorations
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sample2.abc 8 Decorations on two voices
(also in 'd:' lines)
Composer
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deco.abc 2 Decorations with abcm2ps 4.x.x
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drum.abc 7 Drum
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sample3.abc 7 Drum
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sample4.abc 4 Fantaisie Camille Saint-Saëns
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Vader_Jacob.abc 1831 Fr\`ere Jaques
Brother John
Bruder Jakob...
anon.
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sample5.abc 3 Fugue II
(extract from the well-tempered clavichord II)
J.S. Bach
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sample3.abc 6 Grace notes
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sample.abc 12 Gracenotes
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chinese.abc 1 Green Island Serenade
绿岛小夜曲
綠島小夜曲
Lǜ Dǎo Xiǎoyèqǔ
Зелёный Остров
جزيرة اخضرة
Chen Chang-shou
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sample2.abc 4 Guitar chords - annotations
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sample.abc 11 Horizontal beams
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newfeatures.abc 6 Invisible Rests Using X
... file X (index) title(s) composer(s) source(s)
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accordion.abc 51 Jeune fille de quinze ans (50-51-52)
Une fille de rose
trad
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sample.abc 4 Key signature
Accidentals and Decorations
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sample2.abc 2 Key signature change
and multi-measure rest
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sample5.abc 1 New features in abcm2ps-5.x.x
Subtitle one
Subtitle two
This is the composer field
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sample2.abc 7 Non standard decorations Composer
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voices.abc 3 Praeludium II (WT II) J.S. Bach
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voices.abc 7 Qui Tolis (Trio) André Raison
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sample5.abc 2 Romance sans paroles F.B. Mendelssohn
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sample.abc 1 Scale
Second Title
Third Title
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newfeatures.abc 2 Scale with Bass and Alto Clef
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newfeatures.abc 1 Scale with Treble Clef
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newfeatures.abc 5 Scotland The Brave
Demonstrating the Bagpipe Mode and Output Formatting
Trad.
from PS file by Alan S. Watt
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sample.abc 3 Short and Long Notes
Beams and Tuplets
Trad
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sample.abc 7 Slurs and Ties
Title with funny chars like \005 Çéñô Àçäßö © …
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voices.abc 1 Song for a guy Elton John
... file X (index) title(s) composer(s) source(s)
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sample4.abc 5 Special staves
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sample3.abc 2 Staff break
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sample3.abc 3 Staff break multi-staves
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sample2.abc 5 Standard decorations
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sample.abc 9 Strange tuplet cases
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__sunrise_sunset.abc 1 Sunrise
Sunset
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transposed.abc 1 Sunrise
Sunset
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voices.abc 5 Tridal a ra va c'halon
(Mor Fawr Wyt Ti!)
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sample.abc 13 Vocals
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newfeatures.abc 4 Vocals
Note also the trill
Music: Trad.
Text: Anonymous
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sample2.abc 10 Voice overlap
invisible and dashed bars
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sample3.abc 4 Voice overlay and chords
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voices.abc 6 Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit Johann Nicolaus Hanff
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sample4.abc 3 Yesterday
(extract)
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sample3.abc 1 abcm2ps version 3 features
... file X (index) title(s) composer(s) source(s)
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sample4.abc 2 abcm2ps-4.x.x new features
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maptest1.abc 1 percussion mapping test Larry Myerscough
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maptest.abc 1 percussion mapping test Larry Myerscough