The abcMIDI package contains these utilities : abc2abc - a simple abc checker/re-formatter/transposer abcmatch - Search for specific sequences of notes in an abc file com‐ posed of many tunes. abc2midi - converts abc file to MIDI file(s) mftext - dump a MIDI file as text midi2abc - converts MIDI format files to abc notation midicopy - Copy selected track, channel, time interval of a MIDI file to another MIDI file yaps - converts an abc file to a PostScript file Each of these utilities has an associated man page. The know more about the abc notation, abcMIDI and software available, follow these links: http://abcnotation.com/ https://ifdo.ca/~seymour/runabc/top.html http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/ http://abcnotation.com/software#abctool You will find compressed archives of the tcl GUI runabc and its guide here: http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-testing/source/abcMIDI