The Traditional Tune Archive (TTA) is the searchable digital library of traditional music from Ireland, Great Britain and North America organized alphabetically, by tune title, with alternate or additional titles and variants cross-referenced, music in standard and ABC notation, annotated information on history and context, along with references and internet links for further reference.

Thus, the aim is to allow the semantics of traditional music pieces —their properties, historical information and musicological traits, commentaries, etc.— to be employed in an improved data structure that allows for myriad research possibilities.

The TTA is a non-profit, crowd-sourced venture developed by Andrew Kuntz and Valerio Pelliccioni,  curated by the administrators, and contains over 50,000 tunes with annotations.

Initially, Andrew thought of each separate entry as simply a bin in which to store anything that was said or recorded about the tune, and he made little attempt to sort out fact from rumor, nor truth from speculation, leaving the qualitative work to others.

Andrew had no thoughts of abandoning anecdotal material, for it gives considerable information in and of itself of the cultural milieu that is the rich medium for traditional music, but rather to attempt only sorting out what was demonstrably or even reasonably certain from that which could not be verified.

Annotations Information is factual with supporting citations but ‘tune lore’ (i.e. non-factual, conjectural and/or speculative remarks should be identified as such.