Kunst Der Fuge Collection – Free Classical MIDI Files
kunstderfuge.com
kunstderfuge.com
Here on my "vanilla" arch linux installation, VLC won't play the MIDI. And https://www.pianojacq.com/ (recommended within this HN page) with Chromium won't either!
For Linux, you can use aplaymidi from alsa-utils to play back on a MIDI port, or timidity for a software wavetable. I think most OS packaged versions of timidity ship with a basic soundfont so that you can listen straight away.
OS X, last I tried in maybe 2016 or 2015, had a built-in software synthesizer, and IIRC one of the built-in players used it for playback, maybe Quicktime.
I'd say support is pretty good considering how unlikely it seems that anyone should use SMAF as a consumption media format these days.
The OS still has a software synth and a high-level API for playing them, there's just no bundled app to interface with it.
Kunst der Fuge / kunstderfuge.com (KDF) is a web resource of classical music in .mid files (see M.I.D.I. / MIDI / .mid).
Affiliated to OnClassical - an Italian e-label devoted to classical music recordings - kunstderfuge.com is the major resource of its kind, with its 19,300 .mid music files, c. 1000 composers represented, over 200 contributors (some of whom have an exclusive contract with the label), and an average of 5,000 visitors per day.
The music at kunstderfuge.com is easily organized by composer (from Abel to Zipoli), and the major musical figures have pages devoted to their works. The collection also contains traditional folk music, Medieval and Renaissance music, sacred music and a catalogue of historical piano rolls by notable pianists of the Golden era (read more).
Founded in April 2002, kunstderfuge.com continues to provide each visitor with free daily access to five files, and since 2008, has enjoyed Creative Commons by licensing part of its collection.
The site brings together milions of amateurs, engineers, professional musicians, and thousands of subscribers who share the same passion for MIDI and classical music. Kunst der Fuge also a point of reference for dozens of neglected MIDI sites, giving them both a new life and hosting them in a more popular home [...]
www.kunstderfuge.com/info.htm
The perfect candidate for inclusion in this section of the archive would be the works of Conlon Nancarrow, whose works for player piano were composed directly onto paper rolls. Transcribing them from recordings is prohibitively difficult due to the unusual and precise time relationships between the notes, and the density of the textures. Supposedly his works have been scanned, but the resultant midi files were not made publicly available. Some potential difficulties in doing this are acquiring access to the rolls, and their copyright status.
It's seems the Cybernetics Enthusiast community would have some extra appreciation here -- looms and punched cards and player piano rolls.
> Personal use. You may use and play everything from the kunstderfuge.com web site and from its Services for your personal, non-commercial, use only. you agree not to reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, broadcast, make available to third parties or circulate the musical content downloaded through the Service to anyone, or to exploit any such content for commercial or non-commercial purposes without the express prior written consent of kdf.
We need somebody to finally fix the Linux sound system. Took me TWO HOURS to make the Pulseaudio to play Midi.
sudo apt install pulseaudio-module-jack
[sudo] password for tnoko:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
pulseaudio-module-jack : Depends: libpulse0 (= 1:11.1-1ubuntu7)
but 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.2 is to be installed
Depends: pulseaudio (= 1:11.1-1ubuntu7)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.-- What is "held"?
"Broken" means that the package in question has dependency conflicts, unfulfilled dependencies or stuff like that. If an installation, upgrade or deinstallation is requested, the dependency solver will look for a solution without broken packages (naturally). If a broken package is in a "held" state, it cannot be changed, so the solver has no solution without any broken packages, which is why it will give up with the error you are seeing.
Try "apt -f install", and maybe (if it isn't "delete everything", which can happen, or does other undesirable stuff) accept the suggested solution. If that simple fix doesn't help, here are more involved solutions: https://askubuntu.com/questions/223237/unable-to-correct-pro...
Don't try to "make Pulseaudio play MIDI".
Just install Timidity.
What is not working, is your distributions' responsibility for setting it all up for you. What's your distro?
[1] - http://ubuntustudio.org/ [2] - http://zynthian.org/
It is possibly eroded somewhat by liberal use of "apt -F install".
But something was wrong to begin with because Wine and Virtualbox refused to install properly. "i7-3770 CPU" + [GeForce GTX 760].
But this is my Steam-machine mostly, which works OK, so no actual alarms.
It just worked. YT Music limits like it won't play unless it's on screen, no putting phone down, maybe even ads after a while, unless you $ubscribe.
But it was neat.
PianoTeq (shipped onboard Zynthian out of the box) is rendering some Debussy now, and it is really, really nice!
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Oh well I'll come back later
For anyone curious, the domain name translates to "art of the fugue".
There is also a charming story (strangely under new/jazz) about why Mozart started composing fuges:
Wrote Mozart regard to his Fugue K394b :
[...] This fugue has been created expressly for my own Constance. For she will listen to nothing except fugues, particularly fugues by Händel and Bach, and upon hearing me play them, often by heart, she would ask me whether I had never written one; when I answered no, she would reproach me for not wishing to compose the most artistic and the loveliest thing that music had to offer, and never stopped asking me to compose one for her. [...] In time and if the right opportunity arises, I shall write five more and give them to Baron van Sviten [sic!], whom I know to possess a veritable treasure of good music.
[The 'sic!' was by Alfredo Casella.]