Welcome! You will find in this page classical music files in three different formats:

• MIDI
• NWC (by NoteWorthy Composer)
• MP3  (only for some pieces)

MIDI and MP3 files can be played by clicking on the link, but you can also download them to your hard disk (right-click and select Save Link or Save Target). To view or play NWC files you'll need release 1.75 of either NoteWorthy Player (freeware) or Composer (shareware).

All these sequences have been transcribed by me. They are free and 'open source'.   :-)
If you use them publicly, a bit of credit will be appreciated.

Special thanks to Javier García-Conde Zalba for making this site possible.

Recent transcriptions tend to be better than older ones.

MIDI is the preferred format since it allows for several optimizations not possible in NWC format.

MP3 files (Fixed Bit Rate 128, 160 or 192 Kbps for some and Variable Bit Rate 96-320 Kbps for the rest) are generated from the MIDI files with the exact sound I get when I adjust my transcriptions.

When playing back MP3 files please make sure that the play back software doesn't add any supplementary sound effects. All the effects needed are already built in the MP3 files in the right proportion. Supplementary effects may produce unintended distorsions or noises.

All MIDI and NWC sequences are optimized for a Sound Blaster Live! sound card with the 8 MB E-MU General MIDI soundfont. (Live! users: please select Default Reverb at 100% in Environmental Audio.) On the contrary, MP3 files are much less sensitive to the specificities of the installed sound card.

Composers are sorted by date of birth. Century assignments depend on composers' flourishing time, estimated 30 years after their birth.

This web site is willingly limited to a single page.

If you have had the patience to listen to any of my transcriptions and you wish to share with me your comments, even negative and critical ones, please do write to me. I will appreciate it. Send your comments to rpajares@rpajares.net

Collections

• Classical Music Archives, the biggest reservoir of classical music files in MIDI format. What you don't find here possibly hasn't been sequenced.
• Classical MIDI Connection, a very good collection of classical music files.
• Classical musical MIDI, a collection of classical and present day --but classically inspired-- music files informally managed by Reg.
• Classical MIDI Resource is just the opposite of the previous site. This collection presents itself as select and exclusive.
• NWC Scriptorium, a collection of music files in NWC format. Not all of them are classical music.
• Kunst der Fuge, a valuable collection of classical music files which grows rapidly and which is quite beyond its initial direction around art of the fugue and counterpoint.

Sequencers

• Espace-MIDI houses the outstanding and polished sequences of Jean-François Lucarelli. Their number is increasing and their quality is better and better. Don't miss "A summer night's dream" or the more recent sequences of Beethoven's symphonies and Brahms's first piano concerto.
• Floating World, personal page of Jeremy Dimmick, an excellent british sequencer with a terrific flair for phrasing. He even makes his own soundfont for the Sound Blaster Live family. Don't miss his Haydn symphony.
• Stan's Music Files, with many MIDI orchestra sequences made by Stan Tracy.
• Classical MIDI Files by David Siu. David is one of the most prolific sequencers and his MIDI file collection is very interesting.
• The George Pollen MIDI Collection, big and prolific. Interesting sequences of British composers, in particular of Arthur Sullivan. Don't miss Ronald Binge's works.

Music and MIDI

• Zarzuela!, by Christopher Webber. It's amazing, but the best web site on zarzuela is in English! Don't forget to visit it if you want to know what sort of musical genre the Spanish zarzuela is.
• Ludwig van Beethoven. Excellent Beethoven site by Dominique Prévot, a distant relative of the composer. Very good gathering of informations, images and MIDI transcriptions. Everything is in French and English.
• MIDI Technical Fanatic's Brainwashing Center. Informal and humorous presentation of some of MIDI's deep technicalities.
• Some free classical scores, in PDF format.
• Search the Los Angeles Philharmonic classical music directory to learn about classical artists, composers, and classical music works.