Ragtime
Piano MIDI Files - This website, owned by Warren Trachtman, has a
good selection of ragtime pieces by various composers.
Schubert's
Most Famous Works - This selection of Schubert works has been
prepared by Kristofer Andreasson. There are a few wave (.wav) files
mixed in with the MIDI (.mid) files, so be sure to check which you
are choosing. [The complete file name is displayed at the bottom
of your screen when you position your cursor on the name of the
musical work.]
Music
for Pianos - This regularly updated site has hundreds of MIDI
files for piano sequenced by Eric Halstead. Some of the arrangements
are for more than one piano. The site is well organized; to search
for a specific work, click on a style of music at the top of the
page, or on a specific composer's name in the list on the left side
of the page. Before leaving this site, be sure to sign up for the
monthly newsletter that notifies you of new additions to the site
and contains articles of interest to piano enthusiasts.
Parlor Songs - Popular Sheet Music from the 1800s to the 1920s - You can cruise around using either the search engine or the
alphabetical listings to find particular songs and download the corresponding MIDI files. They have beautiful
sheet music cover reproductions, as well as lyrics and midi files for
songs that are now in the public domain.
Early American Music from the 1900's through the 1920's - You can either search for the
music you're looking for, or you can click on a month on their calendar to see what the song
selections were for that month. They also have beautiful sheet music
cover reproductions, as well as lyrics and midi files for songs that
are now in the public domain.
Golden Oldies Piano MIDI -
A smaller collection of oldies songs, all done featuring the piano. Credits are listed next to the song titles, which are in alphabetical order. Click the song title to download the MIDI file.
A
Johann Sebastian Bach Midi Page - This extensive site by Bryen
Travis has a wonderful collection of Bach pieces. The files are
all listed on this one page, and are easily downloaded by right
clicking on the title.
Public
Domain Music - Begun in 1998, Public Domain Music now features over
2000 MIDI files, with text file of their lyrics, of 19th century America
popular music with emphasis on the works of 15 composers, including the
complete works of Stephen C. Foster and Henry Clay Work, as well as music
of the Civil War, hymns, spirituals, minstrel songs, ragtime piano music,
blues, folksongs, and pre-1923 music.
Oper "in nuce" - This website in German and English by Heinz Kern has a variety of operatic "in a nutshell" pieces which he has sequenced for piano. These pieces are some shorter pieces as well as medleys of favorite tunes from the opera, thus "in a nutshell". The initial page has the composers listed alphabetically, with the available pieces listed to the right of the composer. Click on the composer's name to go to the composer's page. Then click the name of the work that you would like to download. This link will take you to a page with the particular MIDI file available. Then, download the file by clicking the "-->download" link. The files are in .zip format, so you will need to unzip them for listening, or let Notation automatically unzip and open them for you. For those who are familiar with world class pianists, you will have fun tryring to decipher the whimsical anagramatic names of various performing pianists at the top of each of these separate MIDI file pages.
You can also find works for piano in our Classical and various Music Styles pages.
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