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The primary purpose of this web site si to collect Anglo-Gaelic, North-American and related folk music in ABC music notation, stored in semantically linked and annotated web pages, thus allowing this wiki to function as a collaborative database. 
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In this collection each tune is assigned a set of semantic [[Special:Properties|properties]]; the idea is to create a cross-referencing system whereby tunes with a shared property can be found listed together. 
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Many of the older traditional tunes have been published under one or more titles; sometimes, it has been argued, for not entirely innocent reasons (For example, the Gows are alleged to have "borrowed" a number of tunes by Marshall and others and republished them under different titles). 
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In the case of some of the most familiar vocal melodies, short titles and first lines are virtually interchangeable and this has led to confusion in the past.
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While there are many other ABC collection in the cyberspace, the goal here is to provide a tool for researcher; for this reason, where possible, tunes in this archive have also been indexed using the [[AbcTune:Theme_Code_Index|Theme Code Index]].