This ABC to notation converter was developed by Michael Eskin.
Full project source may be found on: GitHub.
Try it out here: ABC Transcription Tools.
Getting Started with ABC
ABC Notation - Has links to many tutorials and videos on getting started with using ABC notation.
Sources for Tunes in ABC Format
The Session - Jeremy Keith's legendary site with thousands of tunes in multiple versions.
thesession.org Tune Settings Scraper - Given the link to a tune page on thesession.org, downloads all the ABC tune settings.
You can also get all the tune settings bookmarked or submitted by a member of the site.
Once the tune settings are downloaded, you can save them to a file, copy them to the clipboard, or open them directly in the ABC Transcription Tools.
Folk Tune Finder - Joe Wass' full featured tune search engine with simple ABC pattern search.
The Reverend's ABC Tune Search - Pete Strickler's full featured tune search engine.
ABC Notation - Has a vast number of linked sites with collections of ABC files. It also has a tune search engine.
Henrik Norbeck's ABC Tunes - A massive collection of tunes for traditional Irish and Swedish music.
Werner Schönfeldinger's "The Beautiful Tune Library" - Werner has used my developer share link generation code to add direct links to his website to allow editing of the tunes in my ABC Transcription Tools.
Sources for Tunes in MusicXML Format
Music in MusicXML - Links to several large collections of music in MusicXML format.
Sources for Tunes in BWW Format
Bagpipes Tunes - Over 5500 tunes for the Great Highland Bagpipe in BWW format.
ABC Specification
The full specification for ABC notation can be found at:
The ABC Music Standard 2.1 (Dec 2011)
ABC 2.1 Quick Reference Card
Download this handy ABC 2.1 Quick Reference Card put together by Stephen Merrony: