The Traditional Tune Archive
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| Predecessor | The Fiddler's Companion |
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| Founded | 2010 |
| Founder | A. Kuntz & V. Pelliccioni |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Wappingers Falls |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Key people | A. Kuntz, V. Pelliccioni |
| Publication types | Annotated tunes database |
| Official website | tunearch |
The Traditional Tune Archive (TTA) is a searchable digital library dedicated to traditional music from Ireland, Great Britain, and North America. It provides music in standard notation and ABC notation, annotations on historical and cultural context, and extensive bibliographic and discographic references.
The archive is structured as a Semantic Web Index, which organizes information to facilitate semantic queries and complex musicological research. The TTA contains over 50,000 annotated tunes and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The Traditional Tune Archive originated from The Fiddler's Companion, an extensive project created by Andrew Kuntz between 1996 and 2010. This earlier project cataloged traditional melodies alphabetically and included descriptive and anecdotal information without discriminating rigorously between fact and speculation.[1]
As the project evolved, Kuntz, in collaboration with Valerio Pelliccioni, transitioned it into the more structured and analytical TTA, emphasizing accuracy, reliable sourcing, and clear distinction between factual information and cultural anecdotes.