Classical Music

Selections and Excerpts from the Classical Past

A small effort to put some really old music together for the fans of "old music" who have nowhere to go today save to the symphony or the opera. There were only two criteria used in the selection of this montage, availability of the basic music, and the taste of the preparers. If your favorite selection isn't here, then send us the music, and maybe we can get it here for you.

This page is devoted to midi renditions; a sister page at this location contains the same songs in Noteworthy format which will even give you a look at some lyrics in certain operatic or concert pieces. The Noteworthy page will contain information about how to get and use the Noteworthy plugin to "see" the music play.

There is also an asx file located at this location which will allow you to play all these selections on Windows Media Player. You may have to download the asx file and then open it on your computer using Media Player, because where browsers used to ask us what to do with files they didn't recognize, now they don't care what we want to do, only what the programmers want to do. Enough; on with the music.

In no particular order, another page here will list by composer . . . .

Click on name to play midi:

Name

Chacun a Son Gout
Clair de Lune
O Little Town of Bethlehem
'Til the End of Time
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Roses of Picardy
Serenade
To Love Again
E Lamor Mio
Un Bel Di
Vissi d'Arte
O Soave Fanciulla
O Mio Babbino Caro
Musetta's Waltz
Pathetique (excerpt)
Minuet in G Major
Prelude in A Major
Prelude in C minor
Prelude in E minor
The Palms
Italian Street Song
Mon Coeur
Hallelujah Chorus
Nessun Dorma
No Other Love
Non Piangere Liu
Habanera
Ave Maria
O Sole Mio
Jesu Joy
Afternoon of a Faun
Lullaby
Humoresque
Sheherazade
Viene la Sera
Eroica (excerpt)
Victory (excerpt)
Ode to Joy
Gypsy Rondo
Scuoti Quella (Flower Duet)
Hall of Mountain King
1812 Overture
Merry Widow Montage
A Little Night Music
William Tell Overture
Barcarole
Blue Danube
Fledermaus Waltz
La Donna e Mobile
Pilgrims Chorus
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Elvira Madigan
The Swan
Romeo and Juliet
Tales, Vienna Wood
Wedding March
HMS Pinafore
Emperor Waltz
Violin Concerto
Addio del Passatto
Autumn
Sugar Plum Fairies
Marionette Funeral March
Pomp and Circumstance

Composer

Johann Strauss
Claude de Bussy
Traditional
Fryderyk Chopin
Traditional
Hadyn Wood
W.A. Mozart
Fryderyk Chopin
Giuseppi Verdi
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
P.I. Tchaikowski
L. v Beethoven
Fryderyk Chopin
Fryderyk Chopin
Fryderyk Chopin
Jean-Baptiste Faure
Victor Herbert
Camille Saint-Saens
G.F. Handel
Giacomo Puccini
Paul Weston
Giacomo Puccini
Georges Bizet
Franz Schubert
E. di Capua
J. S. Bach
Claude Debussy
Johannes Brahms
Antonin Dvorak
N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov
Giacomo Puccini
L. v Beethoven
L. v Beethoven
L. v Beethoven
Franz J. Haydn
Giacomo Puccini
Edvard Grieg
P.I. Tchaikowski
Franz Lehar
W. A. Mozart
Gioachino Rossini
Jacques Offenbach
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Guiseppe Verdi
Richard Wagner
Felix Mendelssohn
W. A. Mozart
Camille Saint-Saens
P.I. Tchaikowski
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Felix Mendelssohn
Arthur Sullivan
Johann Strauss, Jr.
P.I. Tchaikowski
Guiseppe Verdi
Antonia Vivaldi
P.I. Tchaikowski
Charles Gounod
Edward Elgar

Work

Die Fledermaus
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Arr. H. Helvey
Polonaise in Ab
Arr. Wilhousky
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Don Giovanni
Eb Nocturne
Aida
Madama Butterfly
Tosca
La Boheme
Gianni Schicci
La Boheme
Symphony #6
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Naughty Marietta
Samson et Dalila
Messiah
Turandot
Chopin Op10 Etude # 3
Turandot
Carmen
.
.
Cantata #147
(Prelude excerpt)
.
.
(excerpt)
Madama Butterfly
Symphony #3
Symphony #5
Symphony #9
.
Madama Butterfly
Peer Gynt Suite
(excerpt)
various operetta songs
(excerpt)
Guillaume Tell
Tales of Hoffmann
Opus 317
Die Fledermaus
Rigoletto
Tannehauser
(themes)
Piano Concerto 21 in C
Carnival of the Animals
(excerpt)
(excerpts)
Midsummer Night's Dream
(selected songs)
Opus 437
(excerpt)
La Traviata
4 Seasons (op8#3) (excerpt)
Nutcracker Suite (excerpt)
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Date

1874(p)
1862(b)
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1810-49(b-d)
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1916
1787
1955
1871
1904
1900
1896
1918
1896
1893
1795
1810-49
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1954 (a)
1935
1877
1741
1926
.
1926
1875
1825
1898
1716
1862-18(b-d)
1833-97(b-d)
1841-04(b-d)
1844-08(b-d)
1904
1804
1808
1824
1732-09
1904
1843-07(b-d)
1840-93(b-d)
1905
1756-1791
1829
1881
1825-99
1874
1851
1845
1843
1758-91
1835-1921
1840-93(b-d)
1825-99
1843
1842-1900
1825-99
1840-93(b-d)
1853
1678-1741
1840-93(b-d)
1818-93(b-d)
1901

Notes

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