This file has not been updated since 1996 or earlier. Beware!

This is the file /pub/tunes/tunes.catalog on ceolas.org. This directory
contains the music for a number of tunes in different formats and some software, 
as part of an experiment in electronic distribution of traditional music. Thanks
to Dan Beimborn, John Walsh, George Keith, Alan Ng, Richard Robinson, Peter
Rayner, Chris Walshaw, Walter Innes and all the others who have submitted files
or ideas.

As a rough overview: the most popular electronic format for celtic tunes is now
abc notation. It's pretty easy to learn and can be translated to staff notation
nicely by using a combination of abc2mtex, Music.TeX and TeX. Unfortunately,
installing all of that takes a lot of space and is not easy. However, it should
work on almost all computers. Alan Ng's abcwin package for Windows machines
should avoid most of that trouble. (Macheads - don't despair, a version of
abc2mtex for Mac, with directions, is in the works, for Summer/Fall 1995).
This archive now has over 100 tunes in abc format.
If you just want to view a tune, we have files in two other formats:
Chris Walshaw has made postscript versions of most of his abc tunes; these can
be printed directly to most laser printers as well as viewed onscreen with
programs such as ghostview, and Richard Robinson has created a separate 
collection of files in gif format, which can be viewed on most kinds of
computer. Richard's collection is best viewed through the WorldWide Web at
the URL: http://celtic.stanford.edu/pub/tunes/RRTunebook/tunebook.html

Bagpipe afficionados have their own package which runs on top of
MusicTeX and a large collection of tunes in that format, and Walter Innes has
converted all of these to postscript format.

	Gerard Manning


MIDI		Short collections of Irish tunes in MIDI format, compressed
		with zip (IBM PC).

Utilities	Programs for decoding the gzip (.gz) compression used for some
		tunes (gzip-1.2.4.msdos.exe for DOS and macgzip0.3b4.cpt.hqx
		for Mac) and downloading the postscript files to a printer
		(drop-ps-113.hqx for Mac, nothing yet for Windows, but I'm
		looking...).

Princess_Beatrice.ps
		Postscript file of a short tune.

Music.Printer	This directory contains a number of files for a demo 
		version of Music Printer, an IBM PC program for
		printing Midi files. According to the note I got with them,
		run Install.exe to unpack the other files. 

MuTeX		Files for MuTeX, an extension of the TeX word processor to
		enable it to handle music.

Music.TeX	This is another add-on to turn TeX into a music processor. It
		is more modern and powerful than MuTeX, but the output is
		apparently not quite as nice as with MuTeX. This directory has
		copies of MusicTeX for Unix (compressed with gzip) and PC-
		compatibles (compressed with pkunzip). The current version
		is 5.02. Includes an example tune, jennysWelcome.tex from
		John Walsh

RRTunebook	Directory containing Richard Robinson's Tunebook of celtic and
		traditional folk tunes (in TIFF). This is primarily designed to
		be used with a World Wide Web client such as Mosaic - the files
		can be downloaded and browsed from your own disk with Mosaic.

bagpipe.tex	MusicTeX macro package that aids typesetting of bagpipe music

bagpipe.clip.art
		Images in GIF and MacPaint format, can be cut and pasted to
		make bagpipe staff notation. By James Platt

abc2mtex	Another TeX utility which allows entry of tunes in a simple
		(abc) format and converts them to Music TeX files.

abc.tunes	Subdirectory containing several collections of tunes in abc
		format. These include sessionTunes.abc, a collection of 62
		common Irish sesion tunes, by John Walsh; the sequel,
		sessionTunesII.abc (with notes: sessionTunesII.txt);
		pipersClub.abc, 14 tunes arranged by John for Uileann
		pipe. Peter Rayner has contributed 75 tunes in
		moreTunes.abc, and many more in a series of other files
		(x..). There are also postscript versions of many of these
		tunes in the subdirectory abc.tunes.ps. See the Utilities
		directory for programs to print postscript and decode the
		.gz compression used for some of these files.

abcwin		Set of files contributed by Alan Ng which allow Windows users
		to typeset and print out abc notation tunes.

playabc-1.1.tar.Z
		Program by Don Ward which allows tunes in abc format to be
		played on the internal speaker of a most Unix computers.

tunes.bagpipe.tex
		Collection of over 100 tunes in TeX format for bagpipe. From
		Walt Innes. Now includes postscript (.ps) versions of the
		full collection.

xmas tunes	A few collections of tunes with a Christmas theme, by John
		Walsh and Richard Robinson. These are in TeX, postscript
		and GIF formats

hilbilpi.zip	zip-encoded image files of some American fiddle tunes arranged
		for bagpipe. From James Stewart, nigel@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

music.programs	List of music notation programs for many different computers

midi2tex	As the name implies, a converter from MIDI to Music.TeX
		formats. This has versions for IBM PC and Atari ST

tunelist.dan	A list of Dan Beimborn's favourite tunes, with their sources in
		printed collections.