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Wikifonia is probably the most amazing source of free sheet music on the web. Thousands of tunes, show tunes, pop tunes, folk tunes. ABC notation is the most amazing way to save and share music. I had been simply saving tunes from Wikfonia as PDFs, but I wanted them in ABC notation. Tunes in ABC notation can be loaded into ABC software and played, transposed, edited and manipulated in many ways that simple PDF files cannot be. But ABC is not one of the output options on Wikifonia.
I recently started using music notation programs and learned about MusicXML, and the solution became obvious! Here is how to do it. Download and install
MuseScore. Then choose MusicXML as the output option on Wikifonia. You will download a compressed MusicXML file that you will need to load into MuseScore and then save as an uncompressed MusicXML file. Then open the MusicXML file in a text editor, select all and copy it to the clipboard. Then go to the
ABC Converter and paste the MusicXML text into the online converter and hit "Submit." The output will be the tune in ABC notation that you can copy and paste into your ABC software or just a text editor to save! It takes way longer to describe than it takes to do!