Essen Folk Song Database

This is a collection of about 8000 European and Chinese folk songs written in Essen Associative Code (EsAC). This database was started under the direction of the late Helmut Scaffrath who invented the EsAC code. I converted the database into abc music notation using a tcl/tk script that I wrote. I am grateful to Damien Sagrillo and Ewa Dahlig-Turek who made available several other collections (HAYDN.SM, IRL.SM, LUX.SM, LOT.SM, HAN1.SM and HAN2.SM which were not publicly available.)
altdeu10.abc altdeu20.abc ballad10.abc ballad20.abc
ballad30.abc ballad40.abc ballad50.abc ballad60.abc
ballad70.abc ballad80.abc boehme10.abc boehme20.abc
dva0.abc erk10.abc erk20.abc erk30.abc
erk5.abc fink0.abc HAN1.abc HAN2.abc
HAYDN.abc IRL.abc kinder0.abc LOT.abc
LUX.abc test0.abc test1.abc testd.abc
teste.abc variant0.abc zuccal0.abc

esac2abc.tcl

everything in a zip file

Note I fixed ballad80.abc on October 6 2010. See readme.txt in esac.zip for more details. November 18 2010: many of the measures (bars) do not correspond to the length indicated in the time signature. I regenerated all the abc files but some problems still persist (see readme.txt). seymour.shlien@crc.ca.

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This page was last updated on April 17 2008