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A traditional and folk music archive of songbooks, tune-books, sheet-music, lyrics, midis, tablature, plus music reference, chord diagrams, scales and other music educational & reference materials. Inc bluegrass & Oldtimey
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A national treasure hosted by Brown University. "This collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period."
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Loads of information and sheet music for the Oud -- kind of an Arab lute. Lots of Arab and Turkish sheet music.
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All Tabs Music Tablature provides a free source of music tablatures and midi sound files for 5-string banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, bass, tenor banjo, dobro, and dulcimer. There are no membership requirements, and all downloads are free.
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A really fun site, neat commentary, kind of like a witty blog with lots of uke songs and charts.
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More than 100 fife tunes in ABC format from American colonial and Civil war times.
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You can search for arrangements of folksongs in different styles and instrumental combinations. Listen to it in Midi and MP3 and print it for free with Scorch plug-in. I've written a new National Anthem for the Netherlands, a Russian tango,a Christmassong,a Drinking song,an orchestral arrangement of Simi Jadech etc. Regular new works!
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Music Talk - asia music forum. Have you found a fantastic new album Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean? Know of a great-but-unknown group coming through ATL? Tell us about it! ...
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I bet you don't know what "WongaWilli" style sounds like! Some neat Bush Tunes. "The aim of the Wongawilli Band & Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club Inc. is to preserve, promote and perform Australia's tradition and heritage of music, song, dance, poetry and yarnspinning."
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Free sheets and midi files of Italian folk and popular music.
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From here, you can join a banjo tab list and/or a discussion list. Click the buttons to the Main menu, and you'll find several selections of banjo tabs -- including licks, runs, and other goodies.
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You might recognize Bill Palmer (webmaster) as Merlin the magician for 25 years at the Texas Renaissance Festival. He's also a musician with a cool banjo page with a good section on banjo setups.
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From the University of Oxford: "The Bodleian Library has unparalleled holdings of over 30,000 ballads in several major collections. The original printed materials range from the 16th- to the 20th-Century. The Broadside Ballads project makes the digitised copies of the sheets and ballads available to the research community."
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A nice collection of Italian folk music jpg files!
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The free Celtic music scores website - standard notation, abc, and midi scores for Accordion, Bombard, Bagpipe, Flute, Guitar, Piano, Fiddle, and others.
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Bulgarian Folk Sheet Music. An online catalog of PDFs including Bulgarias most popular folk sheet music. Free Samples available for every piece!
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Deep Down Productions has the best world music from folk traditions around the globe. From Armenia to Mongolia, from Brazil to the Balkans, From New England Fiddle to Gamelan and the Bulgarian Kaval, we have it all! DDP offers on-line CD sales recordings services, music production,and digital editing.
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Autoharp and mountain dulcimer music from this folk group. Find tab for dulcimer and autoharp as well as MIDI's of the tunes.
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Website for the magazine for hammered dulcimer and mountain dulcimer folk. Many articles from past issues online.
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Sitio para el intercambio de partituras de musica tradicional y popular. Hay además 400 partituras en PDF de repertorio de gaita Navarra listas para bajar.
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Partituras de musica peruana. Musical scores of folk peruvian music
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Alchemy of Modern and ancient Ethnic music styles. CDs reviews, free downloads and scores, newsletters, and more.
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Great dulcimer site; tablature, discussion groups, marketplace, articles, beginner's stuff. Good resource!
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"Richard Hefner’s instructional site for banjo, folk guitar, and ukulele. The site contains hundreds of pages of tablature and tutorials as well as the ezFolk Link Directory, with links to over 1750 music sites!"
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A multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier.
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Folk and Traditional Music and Popular Songs, with Lyrics, Midi, Tune Information and History behind the folksongs and ballads. Irish, British and American Folk Music including Francis J. Child Ballads and Sea Shanties.
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This one's a little different -- lots of folkdance info -- costumes, dances, descriptions, plus loads of folkdance MIDI's, instruments, history, and more.
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folkfun is a new publication for violin, viola, cello & flute with colourful, professional cd backing tracks. Free downloadable track available now - sheet music and cd track.
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Download free folk rock sheet music previews with lyrics and MIDI music online here. Listen to highlighted notes while guitar tabs and piano notes scroll along your PC or Mac display screen.
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This site offers free scores for those, who like folklore dances.
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Here you find free folklore sheet musik. You may read and load down folklore music.
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Loads of harmonica's and accessories for sale, plus lots of free harmonica tips!
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Lots of harp tabs
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Loads of guitar lyrics and chords for beaucoup country artists and songs.
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Your source for quality Irish Tin Whistles, Irish Flutes, Penny Whistles and Bodhráns.
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All 200 tunes from volume 1 of James Aird's tune collection, originally published in 1782. Tunes are in an ABC file.
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Includes tuning instructions, music and tablature, articles about playing techniques, classes, and catalog of tunebooks, recordings, and dulcimers.
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"Historical Celtic, English and American Tunes Hammered Dulcimer Friendly and also playable on fiddle, mandolin, tinwhistle, recorder, flute, etc. Downloadable as sheet music GIF files or as MIDI files"
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Hungarian Sheet Music!
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Nicely done and well organized; lyrics and some sheet music.
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Personal Site of Composer Mamuka Megrelishvili.
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Tremendous mandolin site. Lots of lessons, theory, techniques, and tabs. Also offers a "tune of the month" in standard notation. Loaded with mandolin information.
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Mandolin Tablature and Chords. Spiritual tunes, classical, folk -- even tablature for the bandurria!
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Find Kurdish MIDI files, MP3 files and Music Sheets.
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Neat site! Native American songs and dances!
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It gives an oppurtunity to independent music artist, unsigned artists, jazz artist or new music artist for online auditions and sell music online. indieTunes empowers indie artists of allgenres by offering the highest payback anywhere in the world.
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A web site about the musical instrument Oud, or Ud, Lute, where Nikos Dimitriadis, from Greece is describing and plays various improvisations.(Taqasims). The roots, of the musical instrument Oud, can be found through time, before 3500 years ago in Persia, where it was called Barbat (oud).
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Super Site! Standard notation, chords, and lyrics for more than one hundred popular Mexican folk tunes
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Find neat original mandolin ABC's, standard notation, and MIDI's.
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English barn dance tunes in MIDI, ABC and GIF formats. Also the dance instructions themselves
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Home of the world’s leading source for Classic Country Music.
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Wow! What a complete and capable tune searching tool! If you're looking for folk or ethnic tunes, this is the place!
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Waltzing Matilda. That's it ... but it is EVERYTHING there is to know about Waltzing Matilda. A lot of fun!
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Large text file discussing use of modes in Scottish music, very interesting stuff. Lots of ABC tunes and samples illustrating the discussion.
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We are a non-profit society that loans fiddles to young people,on long term loan and promotes scandinavian folk music.
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The largest musical resource about a genre Russian chanson. Archive more than 7000 albums! DVD-mp3 disks!
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Wow! "National Library's Canadiana sheet music collection has grown to become the most comprehensive in the country, and includes over 20 000 patriotic and parlour songs, piano pieces, sacred music and novelty numbers, some dating back to the 1700s. Besides the expected Canadian imprints, it includes music by Canadians or about Canada published anywhere in the world."
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Lots of popular bluegrass and folk tunes in MIDI and mandolin tablature. Also an article on reading mandolin tab and links.
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"I play Dobro and violin and have written many books on various aspects of these instruments. If you surf through my page you'll find out something about them, my instructional videos, upcoming performances and even lesson samples on each instrument"
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You may know that the "Star Spangled Banner" was written to the tune of an old drinking song ... well, here's the lyrics, sheet music, and a midi of that drinking song!
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Make your own, how to play, origin, history -- and anydidgeridoo else you can think of!
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