TUNES JC's ABC tune finder TUNES

Type a title, fragment or perl pattern and press either of:

(I'm experimenting with several output formats)

Note: This site is using a new, experimental version of abc2ps that implements some new features. Please let me know if there are problems with ABC files that "used to work".

Advice for those who came here looking for recordings: There are no recordings of music here. If you don't understand how you can have a music site without recordings, you are definitely at the wrong site. Few people other than musicians will find anything interesting here.

This is a tool for looking up titles in my online index of ABC tunes on the Web. Enter a tune title, or a fragment of a title, or a perl5 pattern. Then press the find button to find the matching entries in JC's ABC index files. Matching is done without regard to case, and a partial title will match all titles that contain that phrase. It might be useful to know that lines in the index file are of the form:

The first title is "canonicalized" by removing all non-letters and capitalizing it. The full title is on the end of the line, minimally modified to work in HTML. You can match on any of these fields. In particular, if you type part of the URL, you can select tunes at specific sites.

For those not familiar with perl patterns, aka "regular expressions", here is a brief synopsis.

It's possible to use my conversion routines remotely to convert any ABC file on the Web to PostScript, GIF or MIDI. Here's how.

You can learn about the ABC music notation at Chris Walshaw's ABC home page. Chris has lots of pointers to other online music collections, and a list of software sources.