Here are some useful links about abc,

• The ABC homepage
• How to write abc music
• Extensions to abc used by abcm2ps
• Download postscript ABC user guide
• abcm2ps (the tool this page uses)
• abcMIDI (the tool this page uses)
• LOTS of abc music
• John Chambers' homepage including a tune formatter and tune finder.
• and here is an excellent list of music notation software.

Here are some simple songs you can try. Just use your mouse to copy the song, then come back to this page and paste it into the box below.

• Hamburg - First Gregorian Chant (arr Lowell Mason 1824)
• Allegro grazioso - Schumann
• Christ lag in Todesbanden - J.S. Bach