Sites of Reference

  1. The ABC Music Notation Home Page:
    http://abcnotation.com
  2. ABC Music Notation Specification:
    http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1
  3. The EasyABC home page (an IDE for ABC Music Notation)
    http://www.nilsliberg.se/ksp/easyabc/
  4. The ABC Tutorial at:
    http://www.lesession.co.uk/abc/abc_notation.htm

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Bellow is an screenshot of an encoding of "Are You Sleeping" and is a good representation of the basics of ABC notation. ABC noation is great for begineers understanding basic sheet music
and thats exactly what it did for me. The thing thats so great about EasyABC is that as you type notes they appear on a sheet music model. This way you can create your own compostitions and
perform them on a piano for all to hear.

The Encoding of "Are You Sleeping"

ABC Sleeping