X:1 N:EASMES identifies this as the Fife MS. and suggests a date of 1780, see R:Reel

You will also find a playlist of “top 20” tunes. And simply by listening to multiple versions of the same tune, you will learn to disentangle the melodic core of a tune from those individual variations.The “fiddler” playlist is for those of you who are looking to familiarize yourself with the playing of a given fiddler (or fiddlers), or interested in furthering your understanding of the different styles of old time fiddling (individual and regional) .In listening to an individual fiddler’s take on multiple tunes, you will also begin to understand the nuances of a particular fiddler’s style, or the consistent set of stylistic embellishments he or she chooses to make.You will also find a playlist of “top 20” tunes. This list was compiled based on multiple surveys of the most popular old time jam tunes around the world, and is the same as the “top 20” list found at Additionally, there will be considerable overlap between the tunes presented on this playlist, and the tunes in the Old Time Jam Machine at Thus, if you are learning a new tune, one approach would be to use the playlist here to learn the tune, then utilize the backup tracks (either the solo guitar or banjo and guitar backups) at oldtimejam.com for practice.The intention here is not to present these as the “definitive” version of a particular tune. At the top of the page is an alphabetical breakdown that serves as a shortcut to pages. Pages in category "Tune" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 46,405 total. T:Brechan Castle [1] Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources,
Founded in 1957, the Old Town School of Folk Music provides a wide range of music, dance, … N:John Buttery (1784-1854) joined the 34th Regiment in Lincoln, T:Brichan [sic] Castle Some of items in the Traditional Tune Archive may contain offensive language or negative stereotypes. L:1/8 S:The Buttery Manuscript (c. 1784-1820, No. N:1814.
The “tunes” playlist is for those of you who are looking to familiarize yourself with a particular tune that you’ve chosen to learn.Almost every fiddle tune consists of a core structural melody, upon which a given fiddler adds his or her own stylistic embellishments. Folk Music Index - An index to recorded and print resources, compiled by Jane Keefer; Fiddle Resources on the Web - by Mickey Koth, Yale; JC's ABC Tune Finder - Searchable index of tunes in text, ABC, Postscript, PDF, GIF, PNG, and MIDI formats (PDF is easiest to read); Old Time Central - A collection of learning and listening resources for Old Time Music The above music player contains playlists of early source recordings of old time fiddle tunes, organized in two formats.The “Tunes” playlist will allow you to listen to one or more versions of a given fiddle tune.The “Fiddler” playlist will allow you to listen to multiple fiddle tunes by a single fiddler.There are two primary purposes for presenting these in both formats. Rather, it is to deepen your understanding of the old time fiddling and your connection to the tunes and people of the tradition.As these playlists illustrate, all of these tunes are living and breathing entities, ones that change forms in the hands of every musician who touches them.This music belongs to everyone and no one, and the best way to honor the tradition is to use its tools and techniques to make precisely the kind of music Below is a short video on how to use the controls on the music player:The tunes in player have come from multiple sources, including public archival collections around the interwebs, personal collections, and the occasional clandestine cassette tape exchange in darkened alleys.The content in the Fiddle Tune Archive is for educational use only. 831) M:C| Links Tune Indexes and Historical Info. This list was compiled based on multiple surveys of the most popular old time jam tunes around the world, and is the same as the “top 20” list found at oldtimejam.com.Additionally, there will be considerable overlap between the tunes presented on this playlist, and the tunes in the Old (previous page) () Alphabetically by tune title. His large ms. contains marches, duty calls, dance tunes and airs. I started adding the chords to each tune as I transcribed them, then Billy would pick up a guitar and play the tunes with me to be sure I got them right. At this stage, we decided that adding chords to each transcription was worth the time it would take, especially since there is no accompaniment on the 500 Fiddle Tunes recordings. Under “The Archive” on the SideBar on the left is “The Index”. N: Although we are not trained musicologists and make no pretense to the profession, we have tried to apply such professional rigors to this Semantic Abc Web as we have internalized through our own formal and informal education. Stirling Castle Set (Stirling Castle, Lord MacDonald, Jenny Latin, Cross of Inverness, Brig O’Dee) N:Lincolnshire, England, in 1797 and served as a fifer until discharged in

Click on it to open up the list of tune titles in the TTA arranged in alphabetical order, 200 titles to a page.