Ancient Music of Ireland - This extensive site has several pages of
fascinating Irish music in well sequenced MIDI files. Choose an option
from the "MIDI tunes" section at the top of the home page to
reach the music. You
can also download collections of several tunes at a time in zip files.
Turlough
O'Carolan,Irish Harper - This part of Lesley Nelson-Burns' site has the works of Irish
harpist Turlough O'Carolan, sequenced by many different contributors (all
acknowledged following their filenames). You can also download of the
MIDI files in a single zip file.
Jordan
O'Connell Memorial Celtic Midi Archive - This site offers a nice collection
of standard Irish tunes. Don't be taken aback by the "New MP3…"
heading-- it's a link to a different page. If you enjoy these MIDI files,
be sure to check out the "Second series" link, where you'll
find more sequences in a similar vein.
Folk
Music of Ireland - This well organized site of folk music from many
lands has a tremendous wealth of information here (history, lyrics, etc.)
to go with the tremendous number of MIDI files that
Lesley Nelson-Burns has made available.
You can surf through the site and learn a lot; or if you are looking for
a particular tune, there is a search engine specifically for this site.
Taylor's
Traditional Tunebook - This web site, also hosted by Lesley Nelson-Burns,
contains all the sequences of various traditional music that Barry Taylor
had done. It has a drop-menu of the various groupings (Irish traditional,
Scottish traditional, etc.) that are available, and each category has
a zip file of all the available tunes that it contains. These MIDI files are
the ones that many other sites have used as the basis for their arrangements
of these traditional tunes.
Hetzler's
Fakebook - Celtic Tunes - Edward Hetzler's web site provides many
100s of nicely prepared MIDI files. A link in the left-hand column of
the web page, for "Celtic Tunes", takes you to the pages that
specifically have Celtic tunes. Celtic
Bagpipe and Drum MIDI Page - A small collection of Celtic bagpipe
pieces, some with drum accompaniment. The grace notes are convincing,
and are also, by the way, automatically displayed as grace notes by Notation
Musician and Notation Composer.
Sessioneer Tin Whistle Website - This website provides some great resources besides all the excellent tin whistle MIDI files. The left-hand frame provides the navigation for this well-organized site. To find the MIDI files, scroll down past the "Tin Whistle Guide" to the "Tune Archives" section. You can search for a tune, or browse the tunes by category (reels, jigs, other, all). The tunes are arranged nicely in a table, with the MIDI files in the far right column. Just click the filename to download it. To get to the next page of the multiple-page listings, click the arrow in the upper right of the song table.
Emerald Tracks Professional Irish MIDI And MP3 Backing Tracks - This website offers "high quality, professional Irish MIDI and MP3 backing tracks of popular Irish music. Our catalogue includes everthing from old traditional Irish favourites to the latest Irish hits in the charts. Our backing tracks are available in two formats: General MIDI and MP3." Please note that this site charges a fee for their files.
Also see our Folk and Traditional pages.
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