Corpus of traditional tunes in ABC format

This corpus, collected in April 2017, contains all of the notated tunes in the Traditional Tune Archive that have a theme code index.

Caveats

Be warned that this list contains a non-trivial number of duplicates due to the scraping algorithm, which performs a breadth-first traversal of all tunes by theme code prefix. For example, a tune with the theme code prefix 115L could be scraped twice: once for 115 and again for 115L. A tune with the theme code prefix 1117bL could be scraped three times, for each of: 1117, 1117b, and 1117bL.

Running the scraper

cd tunearch-corpus
pip install -r requirements.txt
mkdir tune-files
python scrape.py

The scraper's speed is limited by the requests it makes against the Tune Archive's API. The scraper takes approximately 12 hours to run, but it saves progress to disk frequently, and can be killed and restarted without losing progress.