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Midi Song Files

In English/Scottish-English * In French * In German * In Hungarian * In Italian * In Russian

For best results, use a Roland sound module and one of the following programs: Dual Window Karaoke for Windows or Cakewalk. In these programs, you can see synchronized lyrics as you play the files. Most midi sequencers will also be able to play the music parts of the files.

English and Scottish-English

Songs with words by Robert Burns

Afton Water (A. Hume) [SS3]
Auld Lang Syne [SS3 Y]
Corn rigs [SS3 Y]
Green Grow the Rashes O! [SS3]
John Anderson my Jo [SS3 Y]
Last May a Braw Wooer [SS3 Y]
My Ain Kind Dearie [SS3 Y]
My Heart is Sair [SS3]
O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast (Felix Mendelssohn) [SS3]
Oh, my love is like a red, red rose [SS3]
Scots Wha Hae [SS3]
Tam Glen [SS3 Y]
Ye banks and braes (James Miller) [SS3]

Gilbert and Sullivan

Henry Purcell

Dido's Lament [SS3]

French

Hector Berlioz

Les Nuits d'Été, op. 7

Gabriel Fauré

Cinq mélodies 'de Venise', op. 58 [SS3]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Dans un bois solitaire, K. 308 [SS3]

Maurice Ravel

Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques

German

Ludwig van Beethoven

Freudvoll und leidvoll, op. 84 no. 2 [SS3]
Mailied, op. 52 no. 4

Piano/Voice version [SS3]
Orchestrated version [SS3] submitted by Jun Nishio

Resignation, WoO 149 [SS3]

Johannes Brahms

Botschaft, op. 47 no. 1 [SS3]
Der Gang zum Liebchen, op. 48 no. 1 [SS3]
Eine gute, gute Nacht, op. 59 no. 6 [SS3]
Junge Lieder I, op. 63 no. 5 [SS5]
Salamander, op. 107 no. 2

Piano/Voice version [SS3]
Orchestrated verion [SS3] submitted by Jun Nishio

Sonntag, op. 47 no. 3 [SS5]
Ständchen, op. 106 no. 1

Piano/Voice version [SS3]
Orchestrated verion [SS3] submitted by Jun Nishio

Wie bist du meine Königin, op. 32 no. 9 [SS3]

Antonin Dvorák

Als die alte Mutter, op. 55 no. 1 ("Songs my mother taught me") [SS3]

Josephine Lang

Frühzeitiger Frühling (words by Goethe) [SS3]

Franz Liszt

Du bist wie eine Blume, S. 287 (words by Heine) [SS3]

Gustav Mahler

From Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Ablösung im Sommer (quasi-orchestrated) [SS5]

Piano/Voice version [SS3]

Das irdische Leben (quasi-orchestrated) [SS5]

Piano/voice version [SS3]

Lob des hohen Verstands (quasi-orchestrated) [SS5]
Selbstgefühl [SS3]
Starke Einbildungskraft [SS3]
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen [SS5]

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Altdeutsches Frühlingslied (words by Spee)[SS3]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Das Veilchen, K. 476 [SS3]
Die kleine Spinnerin, K. 531 [SS3]
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- Queen of the Night Aria (Act II, Aria No. 4), Full score realization copyright © 1995 by Eric Stéphan
Gesellenreise (Freimaurerlied), K. 468 [SS3]
Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge, K. 596 [SS3]

Franz Schubert

Die Forelle (words by Schubart) [RSF SE]
Erlkönig [SE]
Heidenröslein (words by Goethe) [RR]
Die Schöne Müllerin (words by Müller)

no. 1. Das Wandern (Wandering) [RR]
no. 2. Wohin? (To Where?) [RR]
no. 3. Halt! (Halt!) [RR]
no. 4. Danksagung an den Bach (Thanksgiving to the Brook) [RR]
no. 5. Am Feierabend (An the Restful Evening) [RR]
no. 12. Pause [RR]

Zum Sanctus

Piano/Voice version [SS5]
Orchestrated version submitted by Jun Nishio

Clara Schumann

Am Strand [SS3]
Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen, op. 12 no. 2

Piano/Voice version [SS5]
Orchestrated version submitted by Jun Nishio

Liebst du um Schönheit, op. 12 no. 4 [SS3]
Walzer [SS3]

Robert Schumann

Dichterliebe, op. 48

no. 1. Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai [RRF]
no. 4. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh' [SS3]
no. 7. Ich grolle nicht [SS3]
no. 14. Allnächtlich im Traume [SS3]

Die Stille, op. 39 no. 4 [SS3]
Du bist wie eine Blume, op. 25 no. 24 [SS3]
Mondnacht[SS]

Richard Wagner

Wesendonck-Lieder
(quasi-orchestrated versions of piano/voice score)
A Note from R. Crawford

Hungarian

Kodály

Italian

Leoncavallo

Vesti la Giubba (From I Pagliacci) Music courtesy Robert Steinberg - Midi Opera Co. - Word presentation by Vincenzo Palleschi

Mascagni

Prelude (From Cavalleria Rusticana) Primary music courtesy Robert Steinberg - Midi Opera Co. - Word presentation and tempi by R. E. Crawford
- Sicilian dialect version

Mozart

Deh Vieni alla Finestra (from Don Giovanni)
Se Vuol Ballare (from Marriage of Figaro) submitted by Vincenzo Palleschi

Pergolesi

Se tu m'ami (probably a forgery by Parisotti) [SS3]

G. Puccini

Vecchia Zimarra (from La Boheme Act IV) submitted by Vincenzo Palleschi
Vissi d'Arte (from Tosca)
- souped up slightly orchestrated version by R. E. Crawford)

A. Scarlatti

Già il sole dal Gange (The Sun over the Ganges) [SS3]

G. Verdi

Aïda

La Traviata

Russian (transliterated)

Tchaikovsky

Mignon's Song, op. 6 no. 6 "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" - words by Goethe (singable), translated by L. A. Mey [SS3 G]

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