Early
German Organ Music - This small collection of less-well-known organ
music has been provided by David Cooke. This music is easy to read and
should be relatively easy to play.
In
Nomine MIDIs - A well-done, educational site by David Cooke. Click
on the graphic near the top of the page to download the musical theme
as part of the explanation.
MIDI Files of Renaissance Music - A well-organized and informative site, with nicely sequenced files by Alain Naigeon. The MIDI files are organized in an alphabetical listing by composer. Simply scroll down the page a bit to see the extensive list of available works, and download them by clicking the song title.
MIDIs
from the Mulliner Book - This site contains selections from a workbook
of keyboard pieces composed by an unknown 16th century English organist.
The arrangements here have been collected by David Cooke.
Pompadour's
Early Music - This is an attractive web site that has a wealth of
information about early music, as well as nicely done MIDI files from
the 16th through the 18th centuries. The MIDI files are arranged chronologically
by the birth date of the composer.
Musica de Hispania - This Spanish site has early Spanish music. The composers are listed in bold, along with the titles of the compositions that are available as MIDI files. Click on the composition title to download the MIDI file.
Antiqua Musica - French renaissance music - This site is in French, but contains some song files that are not found elsewhere. To get to the files, scroll your mouse over the alphabet at the top of this page to go to the composers whose last name begins with the letter. The song files are then listed on the page with the composer's name. The left-hand icon beside each title is the link for the .mid file, and the file can be downloaded by clicking that icon.
English Madrigals - This is the opening page to a number of English madrigals available in MIDI. This page lists composers, with links to their individual pages where the MIDI files may be found and easily downloaded. Just click the word "MIDI" beside the title of the song you wish to download.
Madrigal
MIDI Files - The few madrigals on this page owned by Kelson Vibber
are especially well done, with words included in the MIDI files.
The
Internet Renaissance Band - This nicely-done site of early music MIDI
files by Curtis Clark has renaissance, medieval, and carol sections, as
well as original compositions by Curtis himself. Click on the type of
music you are interested in to access the MIDI files.
English Renaissance Music - This page is done by Jeff Lee. " The MIDI files on this page were transcribed from facsimiles of original printed sources of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, obtained from the University Microfilms collections of early English books. Editorial interpretation of the works has been limited to correcting obvious printing errors, deducing the values of blurred or otherwise illegible notes, selecting note durations when transcribing from lute tablature, and so forth."
Fichiers Renaissance MIDIs - This French website has a well-done collection of MIDI files, arranged alphabetically by composer. Simply click the title to download the MIDI file.
The
Baroque Period Composers at The Classical Midi Connection - This
page lists all the composer's links from the Baroque period that are contained
in The Classical Midi Connection archive.
Early
Music at MidiWorld - This web page has MIDI files for early music
from a variety of origins. Composer, country, title, and the contributor
are all listed with the sequence.
Early
Music Midi Files - This is a small collection of nicely voiced sequences,
along with some good information about the composers and pieces.
The
Purcell Project - This collection of MIDI files of Henry Purcell's
music includes some interesting information about the pieces that David
Harvey has
sequenced.
Pieces from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book - These files were sequenced by Randy Ralph and Christopher Ralph. If you use Notation Musician or Notation Composer to work with these files, you'll find the automatic "Split hands" command recommendation very useful.
MIDIs from the Center for Fawkesian Pursuites - "Sacred music- especially settings of the Mass was a rare treat for the persecuted Roman Catholics. Here is a collection of music from composers living in 1605."
Ancient Greek Music - An interesting site, which "... contains all published fragments of Ancient Greek music which consist of more than a few scattered notes. All of them are recorded under the use of tunings whose exact ratios have been transmitted to us by ancient theoreticians (of the Pythagorean school, most of them cited by Ptolemaios).
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