www.folx.org - communicating folk music

A phantastic resource: an index to many thousands of (mostly traditional) tunes from different countries on the web, written down in the ABC music notation.

ABC is an extremely practical way of writing down music: only by using letters, numbers and some extra characters. Tunes in ABC notation can easily be edited, printed out as beautifully layouted sheet music, played as a midi file. ABC is independent of platform (windows, linux, mac...), supports polyphony, chord symbols and much more. Learn about it: www.abcnotation.org.uk