Learning music using your computer, tablet, or smartphone

If you want to use your computer, tablet, or smartphone to help you learn your part, you have three ways of doing it:

• You can download some audio files with your particular part emphasised and play them on your computer, tablet, or smartphone (these are shown as below).
• You can download some MIDI files with your particular part emphasised and play them with Windows Media Player or Real Player or some other media player. You can do this on your computer, tablet, or smartphone.
• You can download some unemphasised MIDI files and use my MidiPlay program to provide the emphasis for your part. It's a bit more complicated and only works on a Windows PC, but it gives you more flexibility in how you listen to the music:
  • You can slow the music down.
  • You can control how loud you make your part and how quiet you make the other parts.
  • You can play the parts on different instruments.
  • You can see the score.

Whichever way you choose to do it, be aware that the MIDI files might have the odd mistake in them, so you should always use the printed score. Also, the tempo and dynamics might be different from what your conductor wants.

Most of the links below are to John Hooper's website, where you can find emphasised and unemphasised MIDI files. Other links take you to other websites or directly to MIDI files (shown as) or to performances on YouTube (shown as). Audio files are shown as .

Bach, J.C.	Magnificat in C
Bach, J.S.	Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (Psalm 117) - also on YouTube
	Komm, Jesu, komm (Cantata 229) - also on YouTube
	Mass in B minor
Barber, S.	Agnus Dei (Adagio for choir)
Beethoven, L.	Mass in C
Borodin, A.	Polovtsian Dances
Brahms, J.	Es geht ein Wehen
	Geistliches Lied
	German Requiem
	Waldesnacht
Britten, B.	A boy was born
Bruckner, A.	Christus factus est
	Os justi
	Salvum fac populum tuum
	Vexilla regis - also on YouTube
Charpentier, M-A.	Messe de Minuit
	Salve Puerule (the key and the arrangement are a bit different, so use your printed score)
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel	Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
Doyle, D.	I Sing Of A Maiden
Elgar, E.	Ave Verum
Gabrieli, A.	Angelus ad pastores ait - also on YouTube
Handel, G.F.	Foundling Hospital Anthem
	Messiah (part 1)
	My heart is inditing - also on YouTube
	The King shall rejoice
	Samson	Awake the trumpet's lofty sound
		Great Dagon has subdued our foe
		Let their celestial concerts all unite
		To song and dance
		With thunder armed
Haydn, J.	Heilig-Messe (Mass in B flat major)
	Missa in Angustiis ("Nelson" Mass)
Holst, G.	Ave Maria
	Six Choral Folksongs	I Sowed the Seeds of Love - also on YouTube
		There was a tree - also on YouTube
		Swansea Town - also on YouTube
Lotti, A.	Crucifixus (in 8 parts)
Mascagni, P.	Easter Hymn (from Cavalleria Rusticana) Soprano Alto Tenor Bass
Mendelssohn, F.	Christus
Monteverdi, C.	Beatus Vir - also on YouTube
Mozart, W.A.	Coronation Mass - also on YouTube
Parry, H.	My Soul, There Is A Country
Pounds, A.	London Cantata	1: In Honour of the City of London + In a London Drawingroom
		2: From the Wasteland
		3: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
		5: Shadwell Stairs + London
		6 & 7: A March Day in London + In Honour of the City of London
	Crucifixus
	If ye love me
Saint-Saëns, C.	Oratorio de Noël (Christmas Oratorio)
Schubert, F.	Magnificat
Schütz, H.	Now let us give thanks to God
Stanford, C.V.	Beati quorum via - also on YouTube
	Phaudrig Crohoore	Midi files
		YouTube
		Audio files Soprano Alto Tenor Bass
Sullivan, A.	The long day closes
Vaughan Williams, R.	Fantasia on Christmas Carols
	Linden Lea
	Serenade to Music
Viadana, L.	Exultate justi
Vivaldi, A.	Gloria
	Magnificat
Whitacre, E.	The Seal Lullaby

Other places to find MIDI files:

• John Hooper's website (recommended)
• ChoralWiki - the Choral Public Domain Library
• IMSLP Petrucci Music Library
• The Silvis Woodshed
• Bot Productions
• Kunst der Fuge
• Robin's Midi file store
• midiworld.com
• cipoo.net
• Google

If you have any problems with the MidiPlay program or the MIDI files or suggestions for improvement then email me at

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